Quotes about sleeping page 7
“I’m a cat. I respect the sanctity of sleep.”
Rick Riordan book The Serpent's Shadow
Source: The Serpent's Shadow
“Evelyn was an insomniac so when they say she died in her sleep, you have to question that.”
Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer
Source: Pontoon
Georgette Heyer (1902–1974) British historical romance and detective fiction novelist
Source: Behold, Here's Poison
“Tired, but not the kind of tired that sleep fixes.”
Maureen Johnson book Let It Snow
Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
“When you sleep, your dream world is as real to you as life, isn’t it?”
Richard Matheson (1926–2013) American fiction writer
Source: What Dreams May Come: A Novel
Nelson Algren book A Walk on the Wild Side
In jail, Cross-Country Kline to Dove Linkhorn.
Source: A Walk on the Wild Side (1956)
Context: But blow wise to this, buddy, blow wise to this: Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. Never let nobody talk you into shaking another man's jolt. And never you cop another man's plea. I've tried 'em all and I know. They don't work. / Life is hard by the yard, son. But you don't have to do it by the yard. By the inch it's a cinch. And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty.
“As a purely mathematical fact, people who sleep less live more.”
Amy Chua book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Source: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
“I always wake when you do, Sassenach; I sleep ill without ye by my side.”
Diana Gabaldon book The Fiery Cross
Source: The Fiery Cross
“There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Renata Adler (1938) American author, journalist and film critic
Source: Speedboat
“I've always liked, someday the lamb will lay by the lion…. but it won't get much sleep.”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
“Where does a werewolf sleep? Anywhere he wants to.”
Patricia Briggs book Silver Borne
Source: Silver Borne
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet
St. 91
(1819)
Source: The Masque of Anarchy: Written on Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
1980s, Generation of Swine (1988)
Context: Maybe there is no Heaven. Or maybe this is all pure gibberish — a product of the demented imagination of a lazy drunken hillbilly with a heart full of hate who has found a way to live out where the real winds blow — to sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky, and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested...
Res ipsa loquitur. Let the good times roll.
Ally Carter (1974) American writer
Source: Perfect Scoundrels
“my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping
but
I shall go on living.”
Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
“Pride is an evil dragon; it sleeps underneath your heart and then roars when you need silence.”
Jodi Picoult book Small Great Things
Source: Small Great Things
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
Source: The Awakening / The Struggle
Kerrelyn Sparks (1955) American writer
Source: Secret Life of a Vampire
“Sleeping is the height of genius”
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
“A rainy day is like a lovely gift -- you can sleep late and not feel guilty.”
Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923–2014) writer
Source: Mr. Wrong
Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…
Jenna Black (1965) American writer
Source: Shadowspell
“How undisturbed, the sleep of the foolish.”
Philip K. Dick Radio Free Albemuth
Source: Radio Free Albemuth
“Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
Fled is that music: — Do I wake or sleep?”
John Keats Ode to a Nightingale
Stanza 8
Poems (1820), Ode to a Nightingale
“Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.”
Mark Strand (1934–2014) Canadian-American poet, essayist, translator
“He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.”
Cormac McCarthy (1933) American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Standup Comic (1999)
Context: A fast word about oral contraception. I was involved in an extremely good example of oral contraception two weeks ago. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, she said "no."
“An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams.”
John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer
Jillian Medoff (1963) American writer
Source: Hunger Point
Georges Bataille (1897–1962) French intellectual and literary figure
Source: L’Expérience Intérieure (1943), p. xxxii
“My spirit will sleep in peace, or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
The monster to Robert Walton
Frankenstein (1818)
Source: Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus
Context: I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames. The light of that conflagration will fade away; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds. My spirit will sleep in peace, or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell.