Sleep Quotes - Page 32

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I should like to sleep like a cat, with all the fur of time, with a tongue rough as flint, with the dry sex of fire; and after speaking to no one, stretch myself over the world, over roofs and landscapes, with a passionate desire to hunt the rats in my dreams.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Dream, Sex

  Pablo Neruda, “Cat's Dream”

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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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• 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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• 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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• I've learned so much from the Pirahas over the years. But this is perhaps my favorite lesson. Sure, life is hard and there is plenty of danger. And it might make us lose some sleep from time to time. But enjoy it. Life goes on.

  Daniel Everett

  Life, Years, Goes On

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• If we do not do this our churches will lighthouses without light, wells without water, dumb witnesses, sleeping watchmen, silent trumpets, messengers without tidings, a comfort for infidels, jubilant joys to the devil, and an offense to God.

  Robert E. Lee

  Friday, Light, Water

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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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• Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.

  Alexander the Great

  Sex, Army, Ancient Greek

  "Alexander the Great". Book by Robin Lane Fox, 1973.

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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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• Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Sex, Animal, Men

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.10, BookBaby

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