Sleep Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• If I didn't wake up I'd still be sleeping

  Yogi Berra

  Wake Up, Stills, Ifs

  Yogi Berra (1998). “The Yogi Book”, p.52, Workman Publishing

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• Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.

  Aeschylus

  Memories, Grief, Heart

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• Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dream, Peace, Bereavement

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.518, Wordsworth Editions

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• Why is so much sex needed? Because you are tense, sex becomes a release. Your tensions are released through it - you feel relaxed, you can go to sleep; if you repress it, you remain tense. And if you repress sex - the only release, the only possibility of release - what will happen? You will go mad. Where will you release your tensions then?

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Mad, Possibility

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• Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.

  Gautama Buddha

  Death, Buddhist, Flower

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• Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead, But the master is awake And he lives forever.

  Gautama Buddha

  Meditation, Forever, Way

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• If you sleep, Desire grows in you Like a vine in the forest. Like a monkey in the forest You jump from tree to tree, Never finding the fruit - From life to life, Never finding peace. If you are filled with desire Your sorrows swell Like the grass after the rain. But if you subdue desire Your sorrows shall fall from you Like drops of water from a lotus flower.

  Gautama Buddha

  Rain, Flower, Fall

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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

  Thinking, Firsts, Action

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• Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Alcohol, Desire

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [28]

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• If you are trying to slip out without waking a sleeping man, zips are a nightmare. Haven't you ever tried to creep out of the room unnoticed the following morning? I've done that many times.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Fashion, Morning, Men

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• Meditation means undoing what the society has done to you. It has reduced you to a machine; you have to de-automatise yourself, you have to become a man again. You have to come out of this state of unconsciousness, of mechanicalness. You have to come out of this sleep. It is possible only through meditation. There is no other way, there has never been, there will never be. The only way to reduce a man to a machine is take away his consciousness force him to function unconsciously. And just the opposite is the way of meditation: give him back his consciousness.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Men, Opposites

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• Through meditation one has to achieve a dreamless sleep with full alertness. Once this happens, the drop falls into the ocean and becomes the ocean.

  Rajneesh

  Ocean, Fall, Meditation

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• There are people on the ratings board and so froth who don't want certain scenes in the film. There are people who come up and say, "What graphic love scenes. I think, How can a love scene be graphic? Have you seen Total Recall? In this R-rated movie you see a man who you've seen being in love with and sleeping with this fabulous woman shoot her right through the head. "Consider this a divorce" is supposed to be the funniest line in the movie.

  Laura Dern

  Divorce, Being In Love, Men

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• Every funeral may justly be considered as a summons to prepare for that state into which it shows us that we must some time enter; and the summons is more loud and piercing as the event of which it warns us is at less distance. To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; but to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Distance, Funeral, Preparation

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• There are days in retirement that are the waking equivalent of a dreamless sleep, if you know what I mean.

  Robert Breault

  Retirement, Mean, Age

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• I work, and then whenever I have any other time, I'm with my daughter, and then I go to sleep. I think you basically have to abandon the dreams of having any other adult activities in your life. You have to go to sleep whenever your child goes to sleep. That's basically how we're doing it.

  Tina Fey

  Daughter, Mother, Dream

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

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• When I had my first boy it all started and that male energy seemed to keep me awake but since my daughter, who's incredibly serene, I can't seem to stop sleeping because she's asleep all the time. It's a pattern.

  Sadie Frost

  Daughter, Mother, Boys

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Heaven and hell are not geographical; they are not something outside you, they are something that belongs to your interiority. If you are awake, then you are in a totally different universe; it is as if in your awakening the whole existence becomes awakened. It takes a new color, a new flavor, a new fragrance. When you are asleep, the whole existence sleeps with you. It all depends on you.

  Rajneesh

  Color, Different Universes, Heaven

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• Sleep; and if life was bitter to thee, pardon, If sweet, give thanks; thou hast no more to live; And to give thanks is good, and to forgive.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Gratitude, Sweet, Giving

  'Ave atque Vale' st. 17

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• If you woo the company of the angels in your waking hours, they will be sure to come to you in your sleep.

  George D. Prentice

  Angel, Waking, Hours

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• I'll sleep well tonight

  Henry Ford

  Death, Dying, Tonight

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• I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.

  Bell Hooks

  Seductive, Trying, Quality

  "bell hooks talks to John Perry Barlow". Interview with John Perry Barlow, www.lionsroar.com. September 1, 1995.

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• Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty.

  Robert Crippen

  Dirty, Camping, Attention

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• Getting plenty of sleep is always great. It really is. I have a girlfriend who's sending me a slant board.

  Bernadette Peters

  Girlfriend, Boards, Plenty

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

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