Quotes
Quotes about Sleep
I felt ... the generalized pity one always feels for the defenceless prisoner of sleep, seeing in him the defenceless prisoner of life
I can't afford affairs. I mean, affairs begin with dinner and wine and candlelight to continue in commodious apartments. I live in one room and sleep in the smell of the gasring cooker
I can't afford affairs. I mean, affairs begin with dinner and wine and candlelight to continue in commodious apartments. I live in one room and sleep in the smell of gasring cookery
I had never yet had a bad dream when sleeping in Rome, perhaps because all the badness of life there was reserved to the waking time. Here was the sewer of history, and it was an open sewer
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word. Consider the flea!--incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage. Whether you are asleep or awake he will attack you, caring nothing for the fact that in bulk and strength you are to him as are the massed armies of the earth to a sucking child; he lives both day and night and all days and nights in the very lap of peril and the immediate presence of death, and yet is no more afraid than is the man who walks the streets of a city that was threatened by an earthquake ten centuries before. When we speak of Clive, Nelson, and Putnam as men who didn't know what fear was, we ought always to add the flea--and put him at the head of the procession.
I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.
I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like passengers in his car.
There never was child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
Yes, there is Nirvanah; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
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.
For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
It's difficult to wake one who is only pretending to be asleep.
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.
A DEEP-SWORN VOW Others because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine; Yet always when I look death in the face, When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, Suddenly I meet your face.
Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.
