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.

I think insomnia is a sign that a person is interesting.

Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it’s impossible to kill.

I had a dream about you last night… you were a giant slinky and I watched you fall down the stairs.

I had a dream about you. You were you, but you were many—a multitude of mannequins, each named Manny. And I was me, but I was Dark Jar Tin Zoo, and as such I made...

In bed, I can go for hours. Oh yes, I love naps.

As so many commitments demand your timeOr your shut-eye important be,Your attraction to me must in some way lack,Such a pity to spend time on thee.

Somebody needs to pet me, and I guess that somebody is me. My cat is busy sleeping.

I drink sleep, but not like I drink coffee. I chug one and sip the other.

I get up at 12:12, because if I have to do it every day, the number may as well be repetitive. And I love you all the time. That time is 3:21 PM.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

I had a dream about you. We were traveling in your car. You were driving, and I was securely fastened by ropes and duct tape in the trunk. I tried telling you my family has...

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher’s the poet’s equal there.

I had a dream about you. You were riding a walrus like a cowboy, and I was riding a cowboy like a cowboy. I waved at you, and you waved your lasso over your head....

I enjoy breakfast in bed. But not while I am sleeping, because that’s when I’m making love.

Every morning I think: What’s the latest I can sleep in ‘til, and still be on time for work? Well, I used to think that, before unemployment turned every day into a Saturday.

A being of light for a pet wouldn’t be furry, but it would keep you warm—and awake at night.

Thought is uncontrollable but controllable. Thought is the pivot of life and the epitome of good or bad living. A controlled thought is a controlled life and an uncontrolled life is an uncontrolled living. Our...

Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched….

Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep: it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; ‘Tis meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the...

In my room I’d barely closed my eyes when the blonde from the movie house came along and sang her whole song of sorrow just for me. I helped her put me to sleep, so...

I had a dream about you last night. The champagne was non-alcoholic. You didn’t notice, and laughed at my jokes anyway.

Some people wake up drowsy. Some people wake up energized. I wake up dead.

I tend to sleep in the nude… I’m a sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word ‘leaning’ or it sounds like I’m boasting.

And yet, I was scared of falling asleep, because the moment I fell asleep my wounds would heal and right then I didn’t want that to happen. Right then, I found a strange but real...

There is the idea that, when we look at things, it is the yellow light that helps us the most, that we are the most sensitive for. But our circadian rhythms, which are the rhythms...

Some people count sheep. I self-loathe.

I wonder why I don’t go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip...

Sleep without the fragrance of her hair next to him was impossible.

when I finally begin to driftinto sleepyour memory is the…firstand the moonlightthe last, to kiss my face.

Plans make dreams reality.

Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn’t see why anyone else should.

I just sleep here sometimes. It’s better than going home exhausted.

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.

William awoke one morning to find that ― despite having no memory of it − he’d send a message to the Requisitions Department demanding ten thousand gallons of sleep (73% concentrate, with acetic acid stabilizer)....

Are you still mad at me?””Yes.””I’ll go back to sleep, then.””Good.

He tried to think of death as he had done now and then, but that tired him and he dozed off. When he awoke an hour later, he felt fresh and calm as though he...

Life is something that happens when you can’t get to sleep.

Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.

Sleep is fueled by no fuel. If I had enough coffee, I’d never have to sleepwalk my way through a marathon again.

it felt like waking up over and over without falling sleep in between.

Ever thought, that the only thing a man can do for ten/twelve hours a day is work.He can’t eat for ten hours; he can’t drink for ten hours; he can’t make love for ten hours.The...

For several days, I slept. Whether this was a necessary part of physical recovery, or a stubborn retreat from waking reality, I do not know, but I woke only reluctantly to take a little food,...

I want to meet the girl of my dreams, and then immediately try to sleep with her—for between six to eight hours.

I had a dream about you. You were drinking apple juice, and I was drinking horse piss, though the spectators in the stadium couldn’t tell who was drinking what, even though one million dollars for...

But Beatrix knew very well that there were no jobs, not even the most pitiful office routine – she wasn’t even qualified for that – and that no one would allow her to sleep until...

Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I...

I couldn’t decide whether to take a nap or not, so I did what I always do when thinking over a decision—I slept on it.

Have you ever wonder about the misery of sleep?