Sleeping Pills Quotes

• If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.

  Clifford Odets

  Sad, Suicide, Grief

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• A sleeping pill will never take the place of a clear conscience.

  Eddie Cantor

  Sleep, Pills, Clear

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• So I take a little sleeping pill, pop it and realize nothing's happening - but something else was happening.

  Jeremy Renner

  Girl, Country, Sleep

  "Jeremy Renner: I Accidentally Took Viagra on a Plane!" by Zach Johnson, www.usmagazine.com. July 26, 2012.

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• Lies are like sleeping pills. You should only use them when you absolutely have to. They spoil everything if you make a habit of them.

  Daniel Quinn

  Lying, Sleep, Pills

  Daniel Quinn (2011). “The Holy”, p.258, Steerforth

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• I'm doped and thick from my last sleeping pill.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sleep, Pills, Lasts

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, Faber & Faber

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• Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Hilarious, Health

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• My sleeping pill is white.
  It is a splendid pearl;
  it floats me out of myself,
  my stung skin as alien
  as a loose bolt of cloth.

  Anne Sexton

  Sleep, White, Skins

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I went to the doctor last week. I said: 'Can I have some sleeping pills for the wife?' He said: 'Why?' I said: 'She's woke up.

  Les Dawson

  Sleep, Doctors, Wife

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Girl, Suicide, Self Harm

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.79, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free." I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain.

  Octavia Butler

  Pain, Hypocrite, Sleep

  Octavia E. Butler (2014). “Kindred”, p.165, Hachette UK

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• I'm up all night against my will My medicine won't let me feel anything at all The doctor gave me sleeping pills and I took one Then I feel all alone, sleeping like a stone.

  Joseph Arthur

  Sleep, Night, Numbness

  Song: Your Are The Dark, Album: Redemption's Son, 2002

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• I love my family. I came home the other days. My brother's passed-out on the couch, holding an empty bottle of sleeping pills. So I called the paramedics, and they pumped his stomach, and I think he's learned his lesson: you know, never to take my last two sleeping pills.

  Emo Philips

  Family, Brother, Home

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• If you lose your temper, your sound sleep will go, and you will have to use a tranquilizer or sleeping pills? Then gradually, more white hair, wrinkles.

  Dalai Lama

  Sleep, Wrinkles, Hair

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• If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill.

  Ethel Merman

  Book, Sleep, Pills

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• I am fed up with men who use sex like a sleeping pill.

  Toni Braxton

  Sex, Sleep, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell my brain? But in the morning my daughter asks me what a cloud is and I cannot say.

  Jenny Offill

  Daughter, Morning, Sleep

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• I told my doctor, "I've swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills" and he told me to have a few drinks and get some rest.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Drinking, Sleep, Doctors

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• This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a killer to kill the defective child at birth, to leave the sleeping pills beside the bed of the cancer patient ... It is the duty of society to protect the physicians from such requests.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Cancer, Sleep

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• I haven't taken an overdose of sleeping pills and called my agent. I haven't been in jail, and I don't go running to the psychiatrist every two minutes. That's something of an accomplishment these days.

  Ava Gardner

  Running, Taken, Sleep

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

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• We have the whitest kitchens and the most shining bathrooms in the world. But in the lovely white kitchen the average [person] can’t produce a meal fit to eat, and the lovely shining bathroom is mostly a receptacle for deodorants, laxatives, sleeping pills, and the products of that confidence racket called the cosmetic industry. We make the finest packages in the world, Mr Marlowe. The stuff inside is mostly junk." —

  Raymond Chandler

  Sleep, White, Average

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Lady in the Lake: The Little Sister ; The Long Goodbye ; Playback”, Everyman's Library

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• You aim at all the things you have been told that stardom means the rich life, the applause, the parties cluttered with celebrities. Then you find that you have it all. And it is nothing, really nothing. It is like a drug that lasts just a few hours, a sleeping pill. When it wears off, you have to live without its help.

  Susan Hayward

  Party, Mean, Sleep

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• You shouldn't be told you're completely irresponsible and be left alone with too much medication. It's too easy to forget. You take a couple of sleeping pills and you wake up in twenty minutes and forget you've taken them. So you take a couple more, and the next thing you know you've taken too many.

  Judy Garland

  Couple, Taken, Sleep

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• I was curious, given the swimming pools of booze I’ve guzzled over the years - not to mention all of the cocaine, morphine, sleeping pills, cough syrup, LSD, Rohypnol… there’s really no plausible medical reason why I should still be alive. Maybe my DNA could say why.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Sleep, Swimming, Dna

  "Ozzy Osbourne genome sequenced" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2010.

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• Another intruder that plagues our good health is sleeplessness. Insomnia is much like constipation in that stress or nervous tension can bring it on or aggravate it until there's almost no coping with it. That's why you find sleeping pills in so many medicine cabinets next to the laxatives.

  Jack LaLanne

  Stress, Sleep, Insomnia

  Jack Lalanne (1995). “Revitalize Your Life After Fifty”, Hastings House Pub

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• I think that a lot of men, especially once they're married, feel like their girl is just who she is, so don't treat her too special. They shut her off, and having sex before you go to bed is like a sleeping pill. I always say, you're supposed to remember the reason you even asked that girl out.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Girl, Sex, Sleep

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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