“In homes, a haunted apparatus sleeps,
That snores when you pick it up.
If the ghost cries, they carry it
To their lips and soothe it to sleep
With sounds. And yet, they wake it up
Deliberately, by tickling with a finger.”

“A little sleep and then a little wakefulness. Then a slipping to some soothing place in between.”

“It takes the average human seven minutes to go to sleep, but according to Hand's Human Physiology, it takes the same average human fifteen to twenty minutes to wake up. It is as if sleep is a pool from which emerging is more difficult than entering. When the sleeper wakes, he or she comes up by degrees, from deep sleep to light sleep to what is sometimes called "waking sleep," a state in which the sleeper can hear sounds and will even respond to questions without being aware of it later…except perhaps as fragments of dreams.”

“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”

“What does your sorrow do while you sleep? -It’s awake and waiting. And when it loses patience, it wakes me up.”

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

“Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.”

“I'd sooner sleep by an open fire and wake up fried.”

“If you still want to keep dreaming, then go back to sleep. But if you want to succeed then wake up and act.”

“I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don’t want to die.”