Quotes about sleep
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“Lewis: "Oh, no."
Kaitlyn: "Lewis?"
Lewis: "Hi, Kaitlyn. Hi. Rob."
Rob: "G'way, Lewis. I'm sleeping."
Kaitlyn: "Hi. Anna."
Anna: "Hi, Kait."
Lewis: "Hi, Anna."
Gabriel: "And good night, John-Boy! Shut the hell up, all of you!”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: The Strange Power

Boy, Hell, Night

“The upshot of her tirade was that I was the devil's spawn and should be locked up in a tower before I unleashed hordes of the living dead to slaughter them all in their sleep. Well, maybe that's an exaggeration, but not by much.”

Kelley Armstrong The Reckoning

Source: The Reckoning

Dead

“I’ve been wandering around all night—I couldn’t sleep—and I kept finding myself walking here. To you.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Night

“In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.”

Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer

La majestueuse égalité des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain. <br class="br"> Le Lys Rouge http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Lys_rouge/VII [The Red Lily] (1894), ch. 7 <br class="br">Variant: The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Law

“Underneath me, Sam Grest - who'd been my friend and saved my life - lay perfectly still and slipped further and further into the final sleep of an unfair and horrible death.”

Darren Shan book The Vampire's Assistant

Source: The Vampire's Assistant

Life, Death

“Women were excited after sex, wired becasue in their minds the relationship was on beginning. Men went to sleep m the because for the orgasm had arrived and the relationship was done.”

Eric Jerome Dickey (1961) American author

Source: Pleasure

Women, Men, Sex

“The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

World

“You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live.”

Ray Bradbury book Zen in the Art of Writing

Source: Zen in the Art of Writing

Way, Idea, Night

“i will wade out
till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers
I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness
in the sleeping curves of my body”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Flowers, Sun

“In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead”

Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation

Source: Prozac Nation

Depressing, Dead

“Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.”

Sidney Sheldon (1917–2007) American writer

People, Books

“Look at Matsumoto. You need at least 10 years of sleep to catch up with her." "Shut up! Rangiku's a freak of nature!”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Source: Bleach, Volume 24

Nature

“We wish we could show you the world as it sleeps. Then you'd never have any doubt about how similar, how trusting, how astounding and vulnerable we all are.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Two Boys Kissing

World

“Sleep has no place it can call its own.”

Bram Stoker (1847–1912) Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula

“Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.”

Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist

Idea

“The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night's sleep.”

Margaret George (1943) American writer

Source: Mary Queen of Scotland and The Isles

Heartbreaking, Sad, Moving On, Heart

“First, I blow a hole in your face; then I go back inside, and sleep like a baby… I guarantee you.”

Clint Eastwood (1930) actor and director from the United States

Baby

“For six months I couldn't sleep. With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.”

Chuck Palahniuk (1962) American novelist, essayist

“I will not cease from mental fight
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

Fight

“What does this mean? It means I get to spend the morning having the hair ripped off my body while Peeta sleeps in.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's face when you go to sleep at night, to crave seeing it when you wake up. I wish I knew.”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Love, Feeling, Personality, Night

“Omigod,' I said on a sudden flash of sleep-deprived insight. 'You're the big bad wolf.'
There are some similarities.”

Janet Evanovich Twelve Sharp

Source: Twelve Sharp

Wolf

“Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.”

Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet

Variant: Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.
Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.”

Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) American poet, essayist and feminist

Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (1963), no. 3
Variant: A thinking woman sleeps with monsters
that beak which grips her, she becomes.

Thinking

“Why is it we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated - defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying. Sill, to cease living is unacceptable.”

Banana Yoshimoto book Kitchen

Source: Kitchen

Love

“You can’t become a billionaire stepping over children sleeping on the street.”

Bernie Sanders (1941) American politician, senator for Vermont

Source: The Speech: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class

Children

“Those who wanted to sleep, not from fatigue but because of the nostalgia of dreams…”

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

Dreams, Nostalgia

“You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

Dreams

“I will do my best to dodge tonight's depression
Hide in sleep
Damage myself in dreams
Wake up older, slightly more used.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Source: See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die

Dreams

“Sometimes I looked at her sleeping face, the living flesh of it, and was overwhelmed by how precarious it was to love a living thing. She could die simply from lack of water. It hardly seemed safer than falling in love with a plant.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: The First Bad Man

Love, Water

“Nights were the worst. I'd try to get some sleep, only to be thrown out of bed and dragged out into the compound for another game of "Let's whack Bobby in the dark!" - Bobby Pendragon, RoZ”

D.J. MacHale book The Rivers of Zadaa

Source: The Rivers of Zadaa

Game, Night

“I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.”

René Descartes (1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist

Dreams, Imagination

“I still don’t see why we couldn’t sleep in that cave,” Mari said as MacRieve led her out into the night.
“Because my cave’s better than their cave.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night

Night

“Always Wear Flats and Have Your Friends Sleep Over: A Step-by-Step How-To Guide for Avoiding Getting Murdered”

Mindy Kaling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“What?" Simon looked alarmed. "I'm not really sleeping with your mom, you know. I was just trying to get your attention. Not that your mom isn't a very attractive woman, for her age.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Simon, pg. 7
Variant: Simon!" Clary shouted, and seized his arm.
"What?" Simon looked alarmed.
"I'm not really sleeping with your mom, you know. I was just trying to get your attention. Not that your mom isn't a very attractive woman, for her age.
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

Age, Moms

“When I visit a new bookstore, I demand cleanliness, computer monitors, and rigorous alphabetization. When I visit a secondhand bookstore, I prefer indifferent housekeeping, sleeping cats, and sufficient organizational chaos…”

Anne Fadiman (1953) American essayist, journalist and magazine editor

Source: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

Cats, Indifference

“I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.”

Jean Paul Sartre book Nausea

Source: Nausea

Tree, Water

“There's a moment when love makes you believe in death for the first time. You recognize the one whose loss, even contemplated, you'll carry forever, like a sleeping child. All grief, anyone's grief… is the weight of a sleeping child.”

Anne Michaels book Fugitive Pieces

Source: Fugitive Pieces

Love, Death, Loss, Time

“Sassenach,” he said against my shoulder, a moment later. “Mm?” “Who in God’s name is John Wayne?” “You are,” I said. “Go to sleep.”

Diana Gabaldon book Outlander

Source: Outlander

God

“Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation.”

J.M. Coetzee book Waiting for the Barbarians

Source: Waiting for the Barbarians

“This isn't what I expected when I found out you were sleeping in the house."
"What did you expect?"
"I expected you'd come over here because you couldn't wait an extra minute to have fabulous, mind-blowing sex with me.”

Charlaine Harris Dead in the Family

Source: Dead in the Family

Sex, Waiting, Housing

“They should be going to sleep, but good company is the enemy of sleep.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Two Boys Kissing

“There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.”

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist

“Did you sleep well?"
"No, I made a couple of mistakes.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

“I'd sleep and forget it; I had my own life, my own sad and ragged life forever.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

Life, Sadness, Forgetting

“Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

Tree, Waiting

“Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched….”

Janet Fitch (1955) American writer

Source: Paint it Black

Lovers

“When you stood between somebody you loved and death, it was hard to be awake and it was hard to sleep.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot

Source: The Marriage Plot

Love, Death

“I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Variant: I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human.
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

Sad

“I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.”

Philip Larkin (1922–1985) English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian

Understanding, Universe

“I wanted to quit and to do this forever, sleep in a bed and in a tent, see what was over the next hill and never see a hill again. All of this all at once, every moment, on the trail or off.”

Bill Bryson A Walk in the Woods

Source: A Walk in the Woods

“Our own Sleeping Beauty. Who finally kissed you awake?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Beauty, Kiss

“My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

World, Peace, Travel, Sense

“Rose. Roza. Open your eyes." I've never heard heard his voice so strained, so frantic. "Don't go to sleep on me. Not yet.”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

Source: Vampire Academy

“I think we can all agree that sleeping around is a great way to meet people.”

Chelsea Handler (1975) American comedian, actress, author and talk show host

People, Way, Thinking

“A farmer once told me one of the greatest luxuries of his life was to wake up early only to go back to sleep again.”

James Herriot (1916–1995) veterinary surgeon and writer

Life

“the soul's certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at the end of it will be like falling, again, off something tall and sheer.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest (1996)
Context: These worst mornings with cold floors and hot windows and merciless light—the soul’s certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at the end of it will be like falling, again, off something tall and sheer.

Soul

“Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.”

Gregory Maguire book A Lion Among Men

Source: A Lion Among Men

“Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.”

Sara Shepard The Lying Game

Source: The Lying Game

“I've never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn't seem very appealing to me.”

Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

Life, People, Night

“I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.”

David Benioff book City of Thieves

Source: City of Thieves

People, Envy

“When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep”

Maya Angelou book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Soul, Heart

“I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Time

“My time I divide as follows: the one half I sleep; the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep; that would be a shame, because to sleep is the height of genius.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

Source: Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

Dreams, Time

“Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.”

Ringo Starr (1940) British musician, former member of the Beatles

“How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look about us as in a dream, with eyes that no longer know their function and whose gaze is turned inward.”

Antonin Artaud (1896–1948) French-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor and theatre director

Source: The Theater and Its Double

Dreams

“The rat was merely trying to sleep. Believe me, pup, if I had wanted to kill you we wouldn’t be having this conversation,” said Ripred.”

Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist

“But the face on the pillow, rosy in the firelight, is certainly that of Clarice Starling, and she sleeps deeply, sweetly, in the silence of the lambs.”

Thomas Harris The Silence of the Lambs

Source: The Silence of the Lambs

Silence

“Writing is a deeper sleep than death.
Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave,
I can't be dragged from my desk at night.”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

Death, Night

“If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from when you go to sleep at night, just look around. This is where they are made.”

Brian Selznick book The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Source: The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Dreams, Night

“Isabelle: Do you want some soup?
Jace: No
Isabelle: Do you think Hodge will want some soup?
Jace: No one wants soup
Simon: I want some soup!
Jace: No, you don't. You just want to sleep with Isabelle”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Variant: Do you want any soup?"
"No," said Jace.
"Do you think Hodge will want any soup?"
"No one wants any soup."
"want some soup," Simon said.
"No you dont," said Jace. "You just want to sleep with Isabelle.
Source: City of Bones

Thinking

“When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord.”

Louis-ferdinand Céline book Journey to the End of the Night

Source: Journey to the End of the Night

“Do you wrestle with dreams?
Do you contend with shadows?
Do you move in a kind of sleep?
Time has slipped away.
Your life is stolen.
You tarried with trifles,
Victim of your folly.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

Life, Dreams, Time

“I don't know how I could sleep at night, not knowing I was surrounded by a thousand other sleeping, dreaming souls. - pg 120, Jem to Tessa & Will”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Dreams, Soul, Night

“It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped.”

Kim Stanley Robinson book Icehenge

Source: Icehenge

Dreams, Thinking

“Would that the dead were not dead! But there is grass that must be eaten, pellets that must be chewed, hraka that must be passed, holes that must be dug, sleep that must be slept.”

Richard Adams book Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

Grass, Dead

“dissonance, n.

Nights when I need to sleep and you can't. Days when I want to talk to you and you won't. Hours when every noise you make interferes with my silence. Weeks when there is a buzzing in the air, and we both pretend we don't here it.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

Silence, Night

“I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Living with kids is like living in a frat house… everything's broken, nobody sleeps, and there's alot of throwing up”

Ray Romano (1957) American stand-up comedian

on Everybody Loves Raymond

Housing

“She knew words no one had ever heard of, and she used words every day that had been mainly dead or sleeping for hundreds of years.”

Mark Helprin (1947) US author, journalist, commentator

Dead

“I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.”

William Nicholson movie Shadowlands

Source: Shadowlands

God, Change, Time, Help

“Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we're not alone in the universe, even in sleep.”

Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) American poet, essayist and feminist

Source: The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950-1984

Universe

“Mortality, behold, and fear,
What a change of flesh is here!
Think how many royal bones
Sleep within this heap of stones”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Fear, Thinking, Change

“Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever.”

Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange

Source: A Clockwork Orange

Pain, World

“Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep.”

Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), Chapter Thirteen: Frankfurt, Door, Independent Operants

People, Bird, Singing

“Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.
I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
I like a pipe for a Christmas present,
or records — Bessie, bop, or Bach.
I guess being colored doesn’t make me not like
the same things other folks like who are other races.”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

"Theme from English B"
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)

Love, Life, Color, Drink

“No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out.”

Bohumil Hrabal book Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age

Source: Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age

Books

“He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Source: A Clean Well Lighted Place

Lie

“There is a time for many words and there is a time also for sleep.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

XI. 379 (tr. A. T. Murray).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Source: The Odyssey

Good Night, Time

“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

Life, Death, Men

“Guys always think tears are a sign of weakness. They’re a sign of FRUSTRATION. She’s only crying so she won’t cut your throat in your sleep. So make nice and be grateful.”

Donna Barr (1952) comic book author and cartoonist

Guy, Thinking, Tear, Cry

“My needs are simple and few, thought Valentine. Food. Clothing. A comfortable place to sleep. And.

But of course a world with no idiots would be lonely. If she herself were even allowed there.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender in Exile

Source: Ender in Exile

World, Food, Clothes

“I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

Solitude, Cry

“To look upon its grass grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might rest in peace.”

Washington Irving book The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Source: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Peace, Thinking, Grass, Dead

“I came to you, Jane. Every night this week, I came to you. I didn't want you to be alone. And I didn't want to sleep without you." -Vishous”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Unleashed

Night

“Meanwhile," Simon added, "I wanted to tell you that lately I've been cross-dressing. Also, I'm sleeping with your mom. I thought you should know.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Simon to Clary, pg. 6
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

Moms

“When is the night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply when you realize that you have to?”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Night

“Time and death sleep side by side.”

Garth Nix book Abhorsen

Variant: "Time and death sleep side by side," said the Dog. "Both are in Astrael's Domain."
Source: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Abhorsen (2003), p. 64.

Death, Time

“The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night.”

Karen White (1964) American writer

Source: The Beach Trees

Truth, Help, Night

“My head is killing me, my throat is killing me, my stomach bubbles with toxic waste. I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid if this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

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Quotes about sleep
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