Sleep Quotes - Page 13

• I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm close-thatched rick, or under the penthouse of a great barn, provided I had love in my heart.

  Oscar Wilde

  Summer, Home, Heart

  Oscar Wilde (1961). “DE PROFUNDIS”, p.10, VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS

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• What would the world be without him, and those like him?

  Janet Morris

  Love, Commitment, Destiny

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.311, Paradise Publishing

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• She said, why don't we both just sleep on it tonight,
  And I believe, in the morning you'll begin to see the light.
  And then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right,
  There must be fifty ways to leave your lover, fifty ways to leave your lover.

  Paul Simon

  Life, Girl, Morning

  "Song: '50 Ways to Leave Your Lover' ('Still Crazy After All These Years')". 1975.

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• American Girls and American Guys
  We'll always stand up and salute
  We'll always recognize
  When we see Old Glory Flying
  There's a lot of men dead
  So we can sleep in peace at night
  When we lay down our head.

  Toby Keith

  Girl, Night, Men

  Song: Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue, Album: Greatest Hits 2

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• Ocean waters..oceans deep..Serious poets never sleep.

  Sally-Ann Roberts

  Ocean, Water, Poetry

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• I want a boat that drinks 6, eats 4, and sleeps 2.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Sailing, Nautical, Want

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• The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.

  J. H. Oldham

  Children, Kissing, Stealing Things

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• The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan against ideal plan.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Passion, Men

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• Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its sudden appearance. It's not a night twinkle with stars, an illuminated sleep, nor a drowsy vigil. It is the very edge of consciousness.

  Michel Foucault

  Stars, Night, Luck

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• Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother's name through the darkness? Was not that a more powerful appeal than all words? And, depend upon it, that the soul which cries aloud on God, "the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ," though it have "no language but a cry," will never call in vain.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Mother, Jesus, Prayer

  Alexander Maclaren (1872). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.264

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• I ought to pray before seeing any one. Often when I sleep long, or meet with others early, it is eleven or twelve o'clock before I begin secret prayer. I feel it is far better to begin with God-to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Prayer, Long, Soul

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1866). “The life and remains, letters, lectures, and poems of [the Rev] Robert Murray McCheyne”, p.140

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• There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things than not being able to sleep for thinking about them. It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.

  Fleur Adcock

  Betrayal, Insomnia, Thinking

  Fleur Adcock (2000). “Poems 1960-2000”, Bloodaxe Books Limited

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• There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Night, Insomnia, Hours In The Day

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• Sometimes I sit up late with my thoughts, reluctant to fall asleep and leave my thoughts alone by themselves.

  Robert Breault

  Fall, Insomnia, Sometimes

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• I'm so tired, but I can't sleep. Standing on the edge of something much too deep.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Tired, Insomnia, Standing On The Edge

  "Song: 'I Will Remember You'". 1995.

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• I felt very bad and could not sleep until 1am. Maybe he could coach me defence.

  Tamim Iqbal

  Insomnia, Defence, Coaches

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• O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.

  Thomas Hood

  Insomnia, Heaven, Bed

  Thomas Hood (1860). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood”, p.229

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• Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep
  Do not stand at my grave and weep,
  I am not there, I do not sleep.
  I am in a thousand winds that blow,
  I am the softly falling snow.
  I am the gentle showers of rain,
  I am the fields of ripening grain.
  I am in the morning hush,
  I am in the graceful rush
  Of beautiful birds in circling flight,
  I am the star shine of the night.
  I am in the flowers that bloom,
  I am in a quiet room.
  I am in the birds that sing,
  I am in each lovely thing.
  Do not stand at my grave and cry,
  I am not there. I do not die.

  Mary Elizabeth Frye

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Morning

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• Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.

  Joseph Conrad

  Life, Tombstone, Sea

  Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies, Gene M. Moore (2007). “The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

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• We want to do a lot of stuff; we're not in great shape, we didn't get a good night's sleep, we're a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Good Night, Coffee, Shapes

  "So Jerry Seinfeld Called Us To Talk About Coffee". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. April 26, 2013.

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• Sleep is just a symptom of caffeine lack

  Herman Friele

  Coffee, Symptoms, Caffeine

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• For five days, I had no sleep. None. I did not sleep. And the last day, the reason I lasted, I drank 20 Red Bulls, about 20 cups of coffee. I could not function.

  Sam Farha

  Coffee, Bulls, Red

  "When We Held Kings" by Eric Raskin, grantland.com. May 22, 2013.

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• Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.'

  Margaret Cho

  Regret, Congratulations, Night

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• God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood dragging through my veins, and the air thick and gray with rain ... I fell into bed again this morning, begging for sleep, withdrawing into the dark, warm, fetid escape from action, from responsibility. No good.

  Sylvia Plath

  Suicide, Morning, Rain

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.149, Anchor

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• My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree
  Toward heaven still,
  And there's a barrel that I didn't fill
  Beside it, and there may be two or three
  Apples I didn't pick upon some bough.
  But I am done with apple-picking now.
  Essence of winter sleep is on the night,
  The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.

  Robert Frost

  Fall, Winter, Night

  Robert Frost, Thomas Fasano (2008). “Selected Early Poems of Robert Frost”, p.94, Coyote Canyon Press

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