Dreamless Sleep Quotes

• But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

  James Thurber

  Death, Dream, Fear

  James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.1163, Library of America

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• O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by.

  Phillips Brooks

  Christmas, Stars, Lying

  Phillips Brooks, “O Little Town Of Bethlehem”

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• There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.

  Isaac Asimov

  Death, Sleep, Boredom

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.480, Bantam

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• There are days in retirement that are the waking equivalent of a dreamless sleep, if you know what I mean.

  Robert Breault

  Retirement, Mean, Sleep

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• The empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing--that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sleep, Evil, Unity

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• I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Tired, Sleep

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.70, Profile Books

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• Men really do need sea-monsters in their personal oceans

  John Steinbeck

  Ocean, Men, Sea

  Sea of Cortez ch. 4 (1941)

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• Through meditation one has to achieve a dreamless sleep with full alertness. Once this happens, the drop falls into the ocean and becomes the ocean.

  Rajneesh

  Ocean, Fall, Sleep

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• That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real

  Ramana Maharshi

  Real, Sleep

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• I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Sleep, Eye, Loss

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• You take a journey into the Unmanifested every night when you enter the phase of deep dreamless sleep. You merge with the Source. You draw from it the vital energy that sustains you for a while when you return to the manifested, the world of separate forms.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Sleep, Night, Journey

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.132, New World Library

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• What's the Matter with the Mill?

  Memphis Minnie

  Rich Poor, Matter, Oblivion

  Song: What's the Matter with the Mill?

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• Samadhi means when sushupti, dreamless sleep, becomes alert, awake. When you are asleep as far as the body is concerned, you are asleep as far as the mind is concerned, because there is no disturbance of any dream, there is no tension in the body - but beyond the mind, the no-mind is fully alert. He knows that the mind is without any dreams, he sees it, it is without any dreams, he sees it the body is absolutely relaxed. And this seeing, this alertness, continues twenty-four hours. Then sushupti becomes samadhi.

  Rajneesh

  Dream, Mean, Sleep

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• Men really need sea-monsters in their personal oceans. An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep.

  John Steinbeck

  Ocean, Sleep, Men

  Sea of Cortez ch. 4 (1941)

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