Sleep Quotes - Page 29

• Let sleeping dogs lie — who wants to rouse 'em?

  David Copperfield

  Dog, Lying, Ems

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• A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in. A minute to smile and an hour to weep in. A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double. And that is life. A crust and a corner that makes love precious, With a smile to warm and tears to refresh us, And joy seems sweeter when cares come after, And a moan is the finest of foils for laughter. And that is life.

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Laughter, Laughing, Joy

  Paul Laurence Dunbar, Joanne M. Braxton (1993). “The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar”, p.8, University of Virginia Press

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• Being healthy is a complete lifestyle for me. It allows my brain to function at a very high degree so I can comprehend all the new things that are thrown at me. It also allows me to sleep well so that I am rested when I need to perform. Finally, being healthy will hopefully allow me to live a long and fun-filled life.

  Derrick Rose

  Fun, Long, Healthy

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• The idea of any social obligation ... just the idea of it embarasses my thoughts for a day, and sometimes it's since the day before that I worry, and don't sleep well, and the real affair, when it happens, is absolutely insignificant and justifies nothing; and the case repeats itself and I never learn to learn.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Real, Ideas, Worry

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, 1982.

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• I should try to get some sleep as one doesn't know what tomorrow may bring.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Artist, Trying, May

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For many of us we are always wanting more - we would be happier if we had such and such. Maybe we should pause for a moment and hear what some people in the third world countries would like to make them happier. 1. Having enough to eat so when you go to sleep at night your stomach doesn't ach. 2. Having shoes on your feet and any kind of clothing to keep the cold out. 3. Having a roof over your head. 4. Having the hope that you'll be lucky enough to get some kind of an education. 5. Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Dream, Country, Believe

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• Silent night, holy night. All is calm, all is bright. Round yon Virgin Mother and Child. Holy Infant so tender and mild. Sleep in heavenly peace. Sleep in heavenly peace.

  Joseph Mohr

  Christmas, Mother, Children

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• Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Passion, Old Things

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• If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealous, Law, Proof

  William Shakespeare (2014). “The Winter's Tale: A Broadview Internet Shakespeare Edition”, p.109, Broadview Press

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• Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is.

  John Donne

  Running, Doubt, Way

  John Donne (1993). “Selected Poems”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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• Excuses are the cradle ... that Satan rocks men off to sleep in.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Men, Rocks

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• I appear at times merry and in good heart, talk, too, before others quite reasonably, and it looks as if I felt, too, God knows how well within my skin. Yet the soul maintains its deathly sleep and the heart bleeds from a thousand wounds.

  Hugo Wolf

  Depression, Heart, Soul

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• I have got so low that I have asked to be hospitalized and for deep narcosis (sleep). I cannot stand being awake. The pain is too much... Something has happened to me, this vital spark has stopped burning - I go to a dinner table now and I don't say a word, just sit there like a dodo. Normally I am the centre of attention, keeps the conversation going, - so that is depressing in itself. It's like another person taking over, very strange. The most important thing I say is 'good evening' and then I go quiet.

  Spike Milligan

  Depression, Depressing, Pain

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• In dreams the mind is constantly giving you substitutes just to protect sleep. And the same is happening while you are awake. The mind is giving you substitutes just to protect your sanity; otherwise you will be scattered in fragments.

  Rajneesh

  Dream, Giving, Mind

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• We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone.

  Douglas Coupland

  Dream, Needs, Asks

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• When I walked into the Christian section of a bookstore, the message was clear: Faith is something you do alone. Rick does not have much tolerance for people living alone. He's like Bill Clinton in that he feels everyone's pain. If Rick thinks somebody is lonely, he can't sleep at night. He wants us all to live with each other and play nice so he can get some rest. Tortured soul.

  Donald Miller

  Christian, Lonely, Pain

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.105, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on his own heart.

  William Wordsworth

  Heart, Eye, Quiet

  'A Poet's Epitaph' (1800)

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• The reason why life is a sleep & dream for most people is because their awareness is caught up with past or future & not with what is.

  Deepak Chopra

  Life, Dream, Past

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• A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.

  Shana Alexander

  Get Well, Recovery, Thinking

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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• Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty, there is evidence of a phenomenon called circadian desynchronosis which causes one's brain to function slowly at those times of day when it thinks it should be asleep, regardless how wide awake the body is.

  Evan Davis

  Thinking, Brain, Body

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• I heard one cry in the night, and I heard one laugh afterwards. If I cannot forget that, I shall not be able to sleep again.

  M. R. James

  Halloween, Night, Laughing

  M. R. James (2011). “Collected Ghost Stories”, p.70, OUP Oxford

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• When I feel well and in a good humour, or when I am taking a drive or walking after a good meal, or in the night when I cannot sleep, thoughts crowd into my mind as easily as my mind might wish.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Night, Mind, Wish

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• The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Passion, Heart, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.156

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• He who believes in God is not careful for the morrow, but labors joyfully and with a great heart. "For He giveth His beloved, as in sleep." They must work and watch, yet never be careful or anxious, but commit all to Him, and live in serene tranquility; with a quiet heart, as one who sleeps safely and quietly.

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Heart, Watches

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• I can hear my heart beating. I can hear my stomach growling. I can hear my teeth grinding and my joints creaking. My body's so noisy, I can't sleep.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Heart, Teeth, Body

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