Sleep Quotes

“My only relief is to sleep. When I'm sleeping, I'm not sad, I'm not angry, I'm not lonely, I'm nothing.”
― Jillian Medoff, Hunger Point

“Death's brother, sleep.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“Don't fall asleep yet. Contrary to popular belief, that's not where dreams get accomplished.”
― George Watsky

“With great power comes a great need to take a nap.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“What pillow can one have like a good conscience?”
― John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat

“Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day.”
― John Piper

“Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.”
― Virginia Wolfe

“You look tired," Rachel told Jason.
"I wish I could jog and sleep at the same time."
"Can't you?" Ferrin asked, joining them at the little cascade. "I always imagined that you could sleep rolling down a mountainside in a barrel."
"I probably could today," Jason conceded.”
― Brandon Mull, Seeds of Rebellion

“They said a lot of things to each other that night, but nothing that involved words.”
― Michael Grant Fear

“Our nights are different. She falls asleep like someone yielding to the gentle tug of a warm tide, and floats with confidence till morning. I fall asleep more grudgingly, thrashing at the waves, either reluctant to let a good day depart or still bitching about a bad one. Different currents run through our spells of unconsciousness.”
― Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters

“If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?”
― Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Three Trapped Tigers

“Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught the rhythm of them once and for all, in your sleep at night. The city, of course, can wreck it. So much insomnia. So many rhythms collide. The salesgirl, the landlord, the guests, the bystanders, sixteen varieties of social circumstance in a day. Everyone has the power to call your whole life into question here. Too many people have access to your state of mind. Some people are indifferent to dislike, even relish it. Hardly anyone I know.”
― Renata Adler, Speedboat

“Then at once they reached and hovered upon the imminent verge of sleep - but an intruder came, now, that would not "down". It was conscience. They began to feel a vague fear that they had been doing wrong to run away; and next they thought of the stolen meat, and then the real torture came [...] So they inwardly resolved that so long as they remained in the business, their piracies should not again be sullied with the crime of stealing. Then conscience granted a truce, and these curiously inconsistent pirates fell peacefully to sleep.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“Ah, wonderful sleep. I love to sleep. It's one of the things I'm really good at.”
― Kate Johnson, I, Spy?

“...How terrible, those dreams before sleep were—the worse kind, mixing hope with despair...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“I used to be free spirited, now I'm just free of sleep. I got a burning passion in my throat. I got a burning passion inside me.”
― Tegan Quin

“A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.”
― Anthony Trollopel

“...the wind hums low with sweet exultation, sings its lullaby, while you sleep ...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“My brain has become my enemy. We fight over creation and his need for sleep.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“Whatever we may say, all of us suffer from disturbed sleep at times.
Some in truth hardly sleep, though some who sleep copiously swear that they do not.
Some are disquieted by incessant dreams, and a fortunate few are visited often by dreams of delightful character.
Some will say that they were at one time troubled in sleeping but have 'recovered' from it, as though awareness were a disease, as perhaps it is.”
― Gene Wolfe, The Claw of the Conciliator

“She had not heard him enter, and hardly realized his presence there. She was yawning, and he saw the red interior of her mouth as if it had been a snake's. She had stretched one arm so high above her coiled-up cable of hair that he could see its satin delicacy above the sunburn; her face was flushed with sleep, and her eyelids hung heavy over their pupils. The brim-fulness of her nature breathed from her. It was a moment when a woman's soul is more incarnate than at any other time; when the most spiritual beauty bespeaks itself flesh; and sex takes the outside place in the presentation.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

“I wanted to find a nice quiet spot, go to sleep, and dream about kittens.”
― John Corwin, Dark Light of Mine

“I was through with sleep. I didn't like what it brought me.”
― Ali Cross, Become

“He doesn't mind if he dies... indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.”
― William Golding, The Spire

“...at dawn, the grains of sleep turn to floating black spots, then out of focus the world tilts, and the cat scratches at the door...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“And she was not beautiful asleep. Her expression slack and not angelic. The very ordinariness of it so beautiful he felt a yearning to be something more than he was or could be. And as good a player as he was, he knew as he turned on the reel to reel and hugged the Fender once again that nothing he composed would ever be as beautiful as her ordinary sleep.

Watching her he played the music of her sleeping. And by surrendering made something beautiful.”
― Steven R. Boyett, Mortality Bridge

“And I feel like a real Dad when I read to her at night. She won't sleep without one story, at least.”
― Steven Herrick, A Place Like This

“Get sleep....get sharp!!”
― kart

“Is there anywhere else to sleep tonight... Anywhere?' I pleaded.
There's Mei's office, but you'll have to sleep on the floor I'm afraid.' Mei was one of the Ward 9D dietitians.
'I'll sleep on the floor any day. I'm used to it back in the Islands,' I laughed tiredly.
I settled down on the floor. The three rugs I had brought to cushion my back worked surprisingly well. It was almost more comfortable than the thin mats on the cold concrete floors of the fales in Samoa. The idea of sleeping in someone's office was the best idea I had had all year. I decided that I would keep this secret to myself.”
― Ta'afuli Andrew Fiu