Sleep Quotes

“Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other, knits the sleep, so that it takes the body and soul completely in its healing.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers

“The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.”
― Stephen King, Rose Madder

“It's 4am again and I'm just getting started. People are boring and I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed through my words. I want to get all fucked up and write real and raw and ugly and beautifully. I bet you're sleeping safe and calm, and you can stay there, it's safer there, and you wouldn't stand one night on this journey my mind wanders off to every night you close your eyes. I'll stay here one day and I will never come down.
I promise I can fly before I hit the ground.
It doesn't even hurt anymore.
I swear, it doesn't hurt.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

“...sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they're lying next to each other, brings them together and they can barely see one another...”
― José Saramago, The Tale of the Unknown Island

“Good night, belovedest. Your sleep will be sweet if there is any influences in the wishes of your own.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars

“he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered. He wanted her to be a virgin and not a virgin all at once. He wanted to know her. Intimate secrets: Why poetry? Why so sad? Why that grayness in her eyes? Why so alone? Not lonely, just alone - riding her bike across campus or sitting off by herself in the cafeteria - even dancing, she danced alone - and it was the aloneness that filled him with love. He remembered telling her that one evening. How she nodded and looked away. And how, later, when he kissed her, she received the kiss without returning it, her eyes wide open, not afraid, not a virgin’s eyes, just flat and uninvolved.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“Always wear cute pyjamas to bed, you'll never know who u will meet in your dreams.”
― Joel Madden

“Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers

“Do you Believe? Do you Fade like a Dream?
Let me hear you BREATHE
Let me watch as you sleep
The Sparrow's Eyes... Promises shift into judgments
I cannot deny that you were designed for my punishments”
― Slipknot

“It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones
slept better, [Cloquet thought,] while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking
hours much more.”
― Woody Allen, Side Effects

“What silence rules the ghostly hours
That guard the close of human sleep!
(“The Testimony of the Suns”)”
― George Sterling, The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror

“That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“O Heavenly Children, do not forget that God is here, there and everywhere. The birds are his eyes and the air is his ears. And as you sleep, your heart and soul rest naked before him. He can drink from the rivers of your thoughts, and even feel the wetness of your tears.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Sleep crawled on top of me like an affectionate, purring pet-”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

“Sleep occupies a third of our life. It is the consolation to the woes of our days or the woe of their pleasures; but I have never found that sleep was a rest. After a swoon of a few minutes a new life begins, freed from conditions of time and space, and doubtless like the life which awaits us after death. Who knows whether there does not exist a link between these two existences, and whether it is not possible for the soul now to bind them together?”
― Gerard de Nerval, Aurélia

“Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.”
― Hippocrates, Aphorisms

“The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“No real reason for the lack of sleep, it’s a disadvantage of rotating shifts that every so often your body clock just throws up it’s hands in despair and goes to sulk behind the sofa – leaving you suffering insomnia and/or intense fatigue.”
― Tom Reynolds, Blood, Sweat and Tea

“I had a dream about you. You were crying, and I couldn’t tell if it was because you were sad or because you’d been laughing too hard. So I decided to find out by telling you that I’d just heard from the cops, and your mother had been murdered. Before I got to the punch line you started sobbing in a different manner, so I realized you’d been laughing earlier. By that time the mood had changed, and I decided it best not to deliver the punch line after all. So I sat down next to you and put my arm around you and tried to console you for your perceived loss. 
”
― Dora J. Arod, I Had a Dream About You

“In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.”
― Hippocrates, The Aphorisms of Hippocrates

“The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode, existentially and electronically speaking. Bed, its utter inactivity, offers a glimpse of eternity, without the drawback of being dead.”
― Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Not Now, Voyager: A Memoir

“At length the Lady Galadriel released them from her eyes, and she smiled. ‘Do not let your hearts be troubled,’ she said. ‘Tonight you shall sleep in peace.’ Then they sighed and felt suddenly weary, as those who have been questioned long and deeply, though no words had been spoken openly.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Parfois, tu rêves que le sommeil est une morte lente qui te gagne, une anestésie douce et terrible à la fois, une nécrose heureuse : le froid monte le long de tes jambes, le long de tes bras, monte lentement, t'engourdit, t'annihile.
Ton orteil est une montagne lointaine, ta jambe un fleuve, ta joue est ton oreiller, tu loges tout entier dans ton pouce, tu fonds, tu coules comme du sable, comme du mercure.”
― Georges Perec, Un homme qui dort

“I had a dream about you. In my dream I stole all your money, kidnapped your parents, and mailed you mannequin parts spray-painted red in a series of packages that also included ransom notes. Then, towards the end of the dream, the cops surrounded my cave and swarmed in to arrest me. Sweating, my eyes shot open, and I realized it was a dream. “Of course it’s a dream,” I thought. “The cops have no idea where my cave is, and your first package has yet to be delivered.”
”
― Dark Jar Tin Zoo, I Had a Dream About You

“You know how sometimes when you're drifting off to sleep you feel that jolt, like you were falling and caught yourself at the last second? It's nothing to be concerned about, it's usually just the parasite adjusting its grip.”
― David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders

“I slept little, read a lot, and fell in love frequently.”
― Charles Simic

“The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.”
― Arnold Bennett, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

“I swoon into a standing eight count. Goddamn, I actually feel my consciousness want to detach and hide like a turtle retreating into a hopelessly soft shell that won't save anyone.”
― Paul Tremblay, No Sleep Till Wonderland

“Several times during the night, she opened her eyes, unsure if an hour had passed or a month.”
― Leïla Slimani, The Perfect Nanny