Sleep Quotes - Page 28

• The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.

  Sappho

  Moon, Midnight, Time Passes

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• Wisdom comes through suffering.
  Trouble, with its memories of pain,
  Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,
  So men against their will
  Learn to practice moderation.
  Favours come to us from gods.

  Aeschylus

  Pain, Memories, Heart

  Aeschylus (2007). “The Oresteia”, p.13, RicherResourcesPublications

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• Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed-men, and such as sleep o'nights; Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much; such men are dangerous.

  Julius Caesar

  Funny, Night, Men

  Julius Caesar act 1, sc. 2, l. 191 (1599) See Plutarch 2

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• People are not homeless if they're sleeping in the streets of their own hometowns.

  Dan Quayle

  People, Hometown, Homeless

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• Maybe I need some rehab,
  Or maybe just need some sleep

  Kesha

  Needs, Rehab

  Song: Your Love Is My Drug, Album: I Am The Dance Commander + I Command You To Dance:The Remix Album, 2011

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• All good New Orleanians go to look at the Mississippi at least once a day. At night it is like creeping into a dark bedroom to look at a sleeping child--something of that sort--gives you the same warm nice feeling, I mean.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Children, Nice, Mean

  Sherwood Anderson (1997). “Southern Odyssey: Selected Writings by Sherwood Anderson”, p.19, University of Georgia Press

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• I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn't particularly want money. I didn't know what I wanted. Yes, I did. I wanted someplace to hide out, someplace where one didn't have to do anything. The thought of being something didn't only appall me, it sickened me . . . To do things, to be part of family picnics, Christmas, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Mother's Day . . . was a man born just to endure those things and then die? I would rather be a dishwasher, return alone to a tiny room and drink myself to sleep.

  Charles Bukowski

  Mother, 4th Of July, Men

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• Where are you sleeping tonight? Face down in the mud? That's a British tradition: Take acid and fall asleep in some field.

  Thom Yorke

  Fall, Tonight, Mud

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• The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

  Virginia Woolf

  Heart, Thinking, Years

  1929 A Room of One's Own, ch.1.

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• God is not dead; nor doth He sleep; ...
  The wrong shall fail,
  The right prevail,
  With peace on earth, good will to men.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Peace, Men, Earth

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.334

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• I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.

  Bel Kaufman

  Morning, Writing, Lunch

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.72, Open Road Media

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• It's absolutely fantastic. When I was a kid, my father was always trying to tell me how to be a man, and he said to me, I was maybe 9, and he said to me, 'Philip, whenever you take a nap, take your clothes off, put a blanket on you, and you're going to sleep better.' Well, as with everything, he was right. ... Then the best part of it is that when you wake up, for the first 15 seconds, you have no idea where you are. You're just alive. That's all you know. And it's bliss, it's absolute bliss.

  Philip Roth

  Father, Kids, Men

  "At 80, Philip Roth Reflects On Life, Literature And The Beauty Of Naps". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. March 23, 2013.

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• Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present … Eating, sleeping, cleaning – the years no longer rise up towards heaven, they lie spread out ahead, grey and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Lying, Dust, Years

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• I am something of a crank about sleep, for if I get seven and a quarter hours instead of eight I feel afflicted and drag myself around, although there's nothing really wrong with me. It's just another idea. That's how it is with my ideas; they seem to get strong while I weaken.

  Saul Bellow

  Strong, Eight, Ideas

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• Prayer is better than to sleep. Wake up. Wake up & pray. This is the way you free yourself.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Prayer, Wake Up, Way

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• Neither. I am just one who has woken up while the rest of you are still sleeping.

  Aravind Adiga

  Stills, Just One

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.186, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.

  Ann Patchett

  Beautiful, Book, Years

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• But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Mind

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• I'm not lazy. I'm just really gifted, only instead of being good at music or math I'm good at sleeping late.

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Math, Lazy, Late

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• The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own

  Heraclitus

  World, Waking, Common

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• It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.

  John Cage

  Play, Useless, Lullaby

  John Cage (2010). “M: Writings ’67–’72”, p.15, Wesleyan University Press

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• I was running from one problem or place to another, with no time left to study, or sleep, or just breathe. I felt pulled in all directions, fighting to keep all these obligations circling in the air above me. It was only a matter of time before something fell.

  Sarah Dessen

  Running, Fighting, Air

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.129, Penguin

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• All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Boys, Young, Late

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.6, Hamilton Books

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• Architecture has its own realm. It has a special physical relationship with life. I do not think of it primarily as either a message or symbol, but as an envelope and background for life which goes on in and around it, a sensitive container for the rhythm of footsteps on the floor, for the concentration of work, for the silence of sleep.

  Peter Zumthor

  Thinking, Silence, Special

  Peter Zumthor (1998). “Peter Zumthor”

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• I don't get to sleep when I'm in New York. Really. I'm living on adrenaline.

  Daniel Libeskind

  New York, Adrenaline, Living On

  "You've got to have faith". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2004.

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