Sleep Quotes - Page 14

• Every time I hit the ball on the wall I uses to pretend I was there (Wimbledon). When I went to sleep I used to pretend I was there.

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley

  Wall, Tennis, Wimbledon

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• Do you know that the words meditation and medicine come from the same root? Meditation is a kind of medicine; its use is only for the time being. Once you have learned the quality, then you need not do any particular meditation, then the meditation has to spread all over your life. Only when you are meditative twenty-four hours a day then can you attain, then you have attained. Even sleeping is meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Wise, Spiritual

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• Meditation is not something you do in the morning and you are finished with it, meditation is something that you have to go on living every moment of your life. Walking, sleeping, sitting, talking, listening - it has to become a kind of climate. A relaxed person remains in it. A person who goes on dropping the past remains meditative.

  Rajneesh

  Morning, Past, Talking

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• Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.

  John Milton

  Silence, Midnight, Hours

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.157

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• Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.

  John Milton

  Silence, Pace, Spinning

  John Milton, John Richardson Major (1853). “Milton's Paradise Lost, with notes, critical and explanatory, original and selected, by J. R. Major”, p.373

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• I live in the garden; I just sleep in the house.

  Jim Long

  Garden, House

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• It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could'st make the time to do so too; I'll wind thee up no more.

  Ben Jonson

  Time, Wind, Two

  Ben Jonson (1756). “Works: Collated with All the Former Editions, and Corrected with Notes Critical and Explanatory”, p.134

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• Then sleep the seasons, full of might; While slowly swells the pod, And rounds the peach, and in the night The mushroom bursts the sod. The winter comes: the frozen rut Is bound with silver bars; the white drift heaps against the hut; and night is pierced with stars.

  Coventry Patmore

  Time, Stars, Winter

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• She sleeps alone at last.

  Robert Benchley

  Funny, Death, Suicide

  Quoted in Edmund Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes for All Occasions (1943)

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• Emotions in this game run deep so before these haters kill me in my sleep I'd like to say, it's been a pleasure.

  Drake

  Hater, Running, Humble

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• Tonight go to sleep as though your whole past has been dropped. Die to the past. And in the morning wake up as a new man in a new morning. Don't let the same one who went to bed get up. Let him go to sleep for good. Let the one who is ever-new and ever-fresh awake instead.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Morning, Past

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• I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-colored, king-sized three deckers, which put you to sleep, wake you up, stimulate and soothe you all in one. It is an age of pills.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Kings, Humble, Humor

  The New Statesman 'London Diary' 3 August (1962)

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• I was horrified. Absolutely heart sick. All I could think of was that after 23 years together, I'd lost my faithful ally. I couldn't sleep, couldn't get the loss out of my mind. It was like discovering that someone in my family had died.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Heart, Loss, Golf

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• My daughter comes with me everywhere. I don't leave her behind. But it is hard. I mean, I think any working mother will tell you that what kind of falls by the wayside, you know, are the hours of sleep that you wish you had, and all that. I feel incredibly lucky and blessed, but I do sometimes feel like that exorcist lady!

  Kate Beckinsale

  Daughter, Mother, Blessed

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• In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable.

  Knute Nelson

  Fitness, Hard Times, Good Health

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• Whate'er thy joys, they vanish with the day:
  Whate'er thy griefs, in sleep they fade away,
  To sleep! to sleep!
  Sleep, mournful heart, and let the past be past:
  Sleep, happy soul, all life will sleep at last.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Grief, Heart, Past

  "The Foresters, Robin Hood and Maid Marion". Play by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1892.

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• The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational animal when other animals are equally reasonable? But there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Animal, Insomnia, Men

  "This column will change your life: Can't sleep, don't sleep" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2010.

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• How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.

  Truman Capote

  Simple, Night, Vegetables

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• You know that place between sleep and awake? The place where you still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you... Peter Pan. That's where I'll be waiting.

  Julia Roberts

  Dream, Book, Love You

  "Fictional character: Tinkerbell". "Hook", www.imdb.com. December 8, 1991.

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• We're left alone with each other. We have to creep close to each other and give gentle little nudges with our paws and our muzzles before we can slip into sleep and rest for the next day's playtime.

  Tennessee Williams

  Next Day, Giving, Dating

  Tennessee Williams (1964). “The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore”, p.56, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• There are almost no limits to the discoveries of how the human brain operates in illness and health, in sleep and waking and dreaming, in calm and under tension. The question is how far man can put these discoveries to use without using them not for cure but for power.

  Max Lerner

  Dream, Men, Discovery

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• The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Night, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.54, Harvard University Press

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• While you remain at home your hair is at the hairdresser's; you take out your teeth at night and sleep tucked away in a hundred cosmetics boxes - even your face does not sleep with you.

  Martial

  Sarcastic, Home, Night

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• The black masses want not to be shrunk from as though they are plague-ridden. They want not to be walled up in slums, in the ghettos, like animals. They want to live in an open, free society where they can walk with their heads up, like men, and women! Few white people realize that many black people today dislike and avoid spending more time than they must about white people. This 'integration' image, as it is popularly interpreted, has millions of vain, self-exalted white people convinced that black people want to sleep in bed with them - and that's a lie!

  Malcolm X

  Lying, Ghetto, Animal

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• If we could wake each morning with no memory of living before we went to sleep, we might arrive at a faultless day.

  Christopher Fry

  Morning, Memories, Might

  Christopher Fry (1957). “The Dark is Light Enough: A Winter Comedy”, p.58, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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