Healthy people sleep eight hours,Wealthy people sleep four hours.

Life is merely one very long day that routinely gets dark to give people a sensible excuse to keep their eyes closed for 8 hours.

Truth, like love and sleep, resents approaches that are too intense.

A dream is not what you see when you sleep. It is what keeps you from falling asleep.

Sleep” that’s sure to put everybody to the title. The whole movie will look like an extended blink. That way, if anybody asks if you’ve seen it, and you say No, you fell asleep halfway...

I work for the nod syndicate. It’s a sleepy job. If I’m caught not sleeping on the job, I’ll get fired.

I match my pajamas to my comforter so I can disappear into sleep. I’m camouflaged into noonexistence, where I don’t wake up until 12:00 PM.

I love sleepwalking, because when else would I get to combine exercise and rest?

I don’t sleep on the left side of the bed, or the right side, because there is a third option: to not sleep. After all, sleep is like death. Ah, but that’s life, no?

During his time with the French army, years before, one of the sergeants had explained to the younger mercenaries the trick of falling asleep the night before a battle. “Make yourself comfortable, examine your conscience,...

Dreamland, I couldn’t stay away, because I couldn’t stay awake. I traveled there in my sleep, at 65 miles per hour, while I was driving.

I had a dream about you. The sky looked threatening, and hail the size, shape, and color of boxing gloves started pounding us in the face. Luckily my mustache looked like Chuck Norris, and you...

The cause isn’t worth getting up for, but it is worth sleeping for. Just trying to do my part to help humanity.

Why is it that people talk about death, as if it is a part of life, when it is entirely separate? Someone passes on into the never ending void, where the living aren’t allowed. We...

The sound of his sleep, the snores and sighs and small noices, is company.

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,...

You can’t dream, if you don’t sleep.

Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?—“On death

You can’t wear it out. It’ll never die. It watches you while you sleep. It confronts you around every corner. It chases you down like a running dog.

A cluttered mind can make the difference between a nightmare and a dream. Meditate and clear your thoughts before you sleep.

Be honest with yourself; set the alarm for the time the Real You will get up, not the Ambitious You, because the Ambitious You doesn’t really exist.

The sun was up, the room already too warm. Light filtered in through the net curtains, hanging suspended in the air, sediment in a pond. My head felt like a sack of pulp. Still in...

Man’s conscious state is an awareness of body and breath. His subconscious state, active in sleep, is associated with his mental, and temporary, separation from body and breath. His superconscious state is a freedom from...

Being sent to bed is a terrible command to all children, because it means the most public possible humiliation in front of adults, the confession that they bear the stigma of childhood, of being small...

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it’s quite literally that.

Ich möchte schlafen, aber du mußt tanzen.”[Hyazinthen]

I want to live simply. I want to sit by the window when it rains and read books I’ll never be tested on. I want to paint because I want to, not because I’ve got...

Hail, happiness, then, and after happiness, hail not those dreams which bloat the sharp image as spotted mirrors do the face in a country-inn parlour; dreams which splinter the whole and tear us asunder and...

There’s little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of...

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

And I’d noticed her eyes, the lightest blue, and alive, moving here and there and then staring straight on. And now there’s darkness under her eyes like she hasn’t slept well for too many days,...

A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It’s just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses

Sleep did not honor me with it’s presence.

Even when I’m tired, when I come home and think about catching up on my sleep, I’d rather stay up and hold my daughters.

Sleep. That is the biggest thing, when you are sitting in traffic for three hours coming there and back, that could be an extra three hours of sleep you could get. The fees also pay...

It was a sloppy game. We got a little bit too tentative. They kind of put us to sleep a little bit with their zone. We were expecting more man from them because that’s usually...

You can’t be the best all the time. But that’s what clones are for—to be you while you sleep.

I’d sip your tears with a straw while you sleep, because I’m thirsty for your love. And the more I’d drink, the thirstier I’d become. Your love is oceanic.

Sleep! I feel the need of it. Yet my axe is restless in my hand. Give me a row of orc-necks and room to swing and all weariness will fall from me!

If you really want succeed in what you do, obey this rule;… Wake up very early, go to bed lately… Occupy your time usefully!

My cat likes to wake me up by licking my armpit. Never before have I had such a romantic alarm clock. It’s true, man, I should have been born Harry Truman. He could have been...

A starving man asleep dreams of food, and even a crumb becomes a feast. When you’re hungry for affection even a no is better than being ignored.

…to return to their ‘native soil,’ as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and...

I FELL DEEP down in there, until this bright light raised me from sleep. Coming out of a pit such as that, you think the bright light could be God or a cop on patrol.

The best sleep imaginable is sleeping in your dreams

I had the same sensation as when we watch someone sleep. When asleep we all become children again. Perhaps because in the state of slumber we can do no wrong and are unconscious of life,...

I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don’t wake up before – the...

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond who you were.

Be every mourner’s sleep tonight / Like infant’s slumbers, pure and light.

Long ago you were a dream in your mother’s sleep, and then she awoke to give you birth.