No Sleep Quotes

• A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.

  Joan Rivers

  Funny, Hilarious, Mistake

  "Funny Ladies" by B. Adler, (p. 147), 2001.

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• In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Beautiful, Lying, Heart

  Thomas Wolfe, Francis E. Skipp (1989). “The Complete Short Stories Of Thomas Wolfe”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Good Night, Dream, Art

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.92, Penguin

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• The day seems long, but night is odious; no sleep, but dreams; no dreams but visions strange.

  Philip Sidney

  Dream, Sleep, Night

  Sir Philip Sidney (1868). “The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia”, p.117

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• We had no sleep or days off or anything like that and then, when the band became big, Hendrix became a star and looked down at us lot.

  Noel Redding

  Stars, Sleep, Days Off

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• I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have, and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Crush, Stars, Laughter

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.553, Macmillan

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• If I get no sleep the night before a show, I feel that performance is the best one.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Sleep, Night, Shows

  "Jesse Eisenberg explains why he hates watching his own movies". Interview by Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. March 31, 2016.

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• My Friend: Art thou abroad on this stormy night on thy journey of love, my friend? The sky groans like one in despair. I have no sleep tonight. Ever and again I open my door and look out on the darkness, my friend! I can see nothing before me. I wonder where lies thy path! By what dim shore of the ink-black river, by what far edge of the frowning forest, through what mazy depth of gloom art thou threading thy course to come to me, my friend?

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Art, Lying, Sleep

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Gitanjali”, p.22, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet

  Lord Byron

  Life, Success, Dance

  George Gordon Byron, “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt. Canto Iii.”

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• He didn't look the least bit tired. A morning person, even after no sleep at all. It was disgusting.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Morning, Tired, Sleep

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Bloody Bones: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.174, Penguin

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• I'm a baby. I sleep like a baby - I'm up every two hours. And I think a lot. I worry a lot. I have great nights of no sleep where ideas come.

  Billy Crystal

  Baby, Sleep, Night

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• Laugh and the world laughs with you!

  Grant Morrison

  Laughter, Sleep, Insomnia

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• I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?

  Jim Garrison

  Morning, Sleep, Men

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• Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Wise, Money

  Benjamin Franklin (1821). “Essays and Letters”, p.80

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• No rest without love, no sleep without dreams of love- be mad or chill obsessed with angels or machines, the final wish is love -cannot be bitter, cannot deny, cannot withhold if denied: the weight is too heavy

  Allen Ginsberg

  Dream, Sleep, Angel

  Allen Ginsberg, “Song”

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• I feel everything more deeply. Every action I take, I think of her first. That's a big change for me. That - and no sleep!

  Jenna Dewan

  Sleep, Thinking, Firsts

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• I no longer teach law. But when I did I advised my students that they should never accept a case if it meant that by doing so you couldn't sleep at night.

  Christopher Darden

  Sleep, Night, Law

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• Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.

  Zhang Ziyi

  School, Sleep, Police

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• We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

  Zhuangzi

  Fall, Winter, Autumn

  Zhuangzi (1974). “Chuang tsu: Inner chapters”, Vintage Books USA

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• Pray that no sleep may seize upon your eyes, nor slumber upon your eyelids until your thoughts have seriously, calmly, and unchangably fixed.

  Roger Williams

  Sleep, Eye, Slumber

  Source: www.libertymagazine.org

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• To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

  Lord Byron

  Dance, Aquarius, Feet

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.60, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Now I know what it's like to be a rock star. No, I didn't sleep with 5 groupies at once. But I was interviewed about 45 times in 5 days in 3 cities.

  Tony Visconti

  Stars, Sleep, Rocks

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• People say like, "I don't know how you do it. You must get no sleep." I actually do get the right amount of sleep every night. That's my rule. But if I'm writing until six in the morning I sleep until two in the afternoon and it's the only thing that keeps me healthy and sane.

  Julie Plec

  Morning, Writing, Sleep

  Source: collider.com

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• In fact, when I met Kit Harington first, he was pretty much feeling how I'm feeling today - at a photo shoot and you've had no sleep. He was just a really nice, English, down-to-earth guy. No pretense, nothing.

  Max Irons

  Nice, Sleep, Guy

  "Max Irons Assumes His Throne". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2013.

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• Sleeping only six hours a night for a week in a row will make you feel on that eighth day as if you'd gotten no sleep at all. Seven and a half to eight hours remains the sweet spot.

  Sanjay Gupta

  Sweet, Sleep, Night

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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