Sleep Quotes - Page 34

• Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude.

  Thomas Szasz

  Men, Air, Long

  Thomas Stephen Szasz “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, Transaction Publishers

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• Deliberately seeking solitude-quality time spent away from family and friends-may seem selfish. It is not. Solitude is as necessary for our creative spirits to develop and flourish as are sleep and food for our bodies to survive.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Selfish, Creative, Solitude

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2008). “Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort of Joy”, p.234, Hachette UK

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• If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Lying, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (2001). “Lincoln's Words: Sentiments from the 16th President of the United States”

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• Well, it is all over now. The battle is lost, and many of us are prisoners, many are dead, many wounded, bleeding and dying. Your Soldier lives and mourns and but for you, my darling, he would rather, a million times rather, be back there with his dead, to sleep for all time in an unknown grave.

  George Pickett

  Military, War, Soldier

  George Edward Pickett, La Salle Corbell Pickett (1913). “The Heart of a Soldier: As Revealed in the Intimate Letters of Genl. George E. Pickett”

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• Maintaining the status quo is the same as regressing; while you are holding your own, others are passing you by. Be harsh on yourself. Do not ever think that you have made it; do not ever be staisfied by what you have done. Drive yourself for the rest of your life. If you do not move, you become paralyzed. Develop your potential to the fullest, for you, too, can wake the sleeping genius at will.

  Kim Woo-jung

  Moving, Thinking, Maintaining The Status Quo

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• We attach our feelings to the moment when we were hurt, endowing it with immortality. And we let it assault us every time it comes to mind. It travels with us, sleeps with us, hovers over us while we make love, and broods over us while we die. Our hate does not even have the decency to die when those we hate die-for it is a parasite sucking OUR blood, not theirs. There is only one remedy for it. [forgiveness]

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Hate

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• A precious liquid, a poison dearer than that of the Borgias - because it is made from our blood, our health, our sleep, and two-thirds of our love - we must be stingy with it.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Hate, Blood, Two

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• If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Real, Fall, Mind

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• So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story before a long, long sleep.

  Robert Bloch

  Discovery, Long, Stories

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• If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Monsters, Doe, Reason

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• The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of that sleep.

  Guy Debord

  Dream, Wish, Modern

  Guy Debord (2014). “The Society of the Spectacle”, p.7, Bureau of Public Secrets

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• God speaks once, yea twice, yet Man perceiveth it not, in a Dream, in a Vision of the night, when deep Sleep falleth upon men, in slumbering upon the bed. We need not, when abed, to lie awake to talk with God, he can visit us while we sleep, and cause us then to hear his Voice. Our heart oft-times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake

  John Bunyan

  Dream, Lying, Heart

  John Bunyan (1847). “The Pilgrim's Progress: In Two Parts”, p.279

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• As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a den; and I laid me down in that place to sleep: and as I slept I dreamed a dream. I dreamed, and behold I saw a man clothed with rags, standing in a certain place, with his face from his own house, a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back. I looked, and saw him open the book, and read therein; and as he read, he wept and trembled: and not being able longer to contain, he brake out with a lamentable cry; saying, 'What shall I do?'

  John Bunyan

  Dream, Book, Men

  John Bunyan (1813). “The Pilgrim's Progress, from this World, to that which is to Come ... with Notes, Interesting Memoirs of the Author, Character of the Pilgrim's Progress, and a Key to the Whole Work ... by Various Eminent Men”, p.1

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• Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette on the porch, absently picking ticks engorged like grapes off the sleeping dogs. And when the men kissed the women good night, and their weekend whiskers scratched the women's cheeks, the women did not think shave, they thought stay.

  Amy Hempel

  Good Night, Dog, Children

  Amy Hempel (2006). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head gets more stagnant on that side.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Yankees, Enthusiasm For Life

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• From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,
  And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
  Six miles from earth, loosed from the dream of life,
  I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
  When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.

  Randall Jarrell

  Mother, Dream, Black

  "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" l. 1 (1945)

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• It's not who wants to sleep with you; It's who wants to sleep with you again.

  David Lee Roth

  Want, Want To Sleep, You Again

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• God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.

  Thomas Harris

  Cry, Creatures, Cried

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.171, Macmillan

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• Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men.

  Phil Robertson

  Men, Dynasty, Behavior

  "What the Duck?". Interview with Drew Magary, www.gq.com. December 17, 2013.

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• The Christian world is in a deep sleep; nothing but a loud shout can awaken them out of it!

  George Whitefield

  Christian, World, Loud

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• Of course, I would be depressed sometimes, and my Mom would be worried about me because I would just sleep to escape. Cause I was so scared of being a musician or artist, or whatever you want to call it.

  Chantal Kreviazuk

  Mom, Artist, Musician

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• I mean, sleeping with the same woman, night after night. Boring!

  Laura Kightlinger

  Mean, Night, Boring

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• Germans grew reluctant to stay in communal ski lodges, fearing they might talk in their sleep. They postponed surgeries because of the lip-loosening effects of anesthetic. Dreams reflected the ambient anxiety. One German dreamed that an SA man came to his home and opened the door to his oven, which then repeated every negative remark the household had made against the government.

  Erik Larson

  Dream, Fear, Home

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• I was never going to get any sleep. I was going to have Alice in Wonderland conversation after Alice in Wonderland conversation until I died of exhaustion. Here, in the restful, idyllic Victorian era.

  Connie Willis

  Idyllic, Wonderland, Eras

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.206, Bantam

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• When you don't know what you're living for, you don't care how you live from one day to the next. You're happy the day has passed and the night has come, and in your sleep you bury the tedious question of what you lived for that day and what you're going to live for tomorrow.

  Ivan Goncharov

  Night, One Day, Care

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