The WakingI wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.I learn by going where I have to go.We think by feeling. What is there to know?I hear...

If I lived alone, Mom’d never sleep because she wouldn’t know I was okay.

Sometimes I wait at the bottom of those dark stairs, I sit at the bottom of the stairs, I wait beyond the bottom of the stairs and listen to the sounds my wife and children...

Shake off this downy sleep, death’s counterfeit,And look on death itself!

If coffee were like dreams, then I would be wired in constant bliss, never needing sleep to live out my dreams.

North,” said the face beneath the sheet. “I belong to the National Association of Broadcasting Employees and Technicians. If you wake me up before I’ve slept twelve hours, I get paid short turnaround.””But Rose–“”If you...

God created night and day without your help, enjoy His gift of rest tonight. Tomorrow will bring showers of blessings and joy! Good night, you are safe in His hands.

In a while, her eyes felt leaden and she felt sleep overpower her, even as she fought to keep her eyes open. In vain, I tried to churn within her, a little nugget of fear,...

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...

To be or not to be, that is the question: to go on living, fighting against this sea of troubles, or to die and end everything? Why be afraid of death? To die is to...

When you go,if you go,And I should want to die,there’s nothing I’d be saved bymore than the timeyou fell asleep in my armsin a trust so gentleI let the darkening roomdrink up the evening, tillrest,...

I invented an invisible machine to help you get to sleep. It only works after your eyes stay shut for a length of time. It’s also so quiet that you won’t hear it.

I just bought a bag of potato-chip-flavored air. I also bought a bed, but sleep wasn’t included. Thank God a cup of coffee is full of wakefulness.

Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to ‘things of the day’ – the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important – and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he...

You can get a sleep study done in a strip mall now without ever meeting with a (qualified) specialist.

It’s a perfect landing…we are jumping and applauding. I can hardly sleep. Nevertheless I had been waiting 25 years before this night.

Growing up, I had a lot of dreams. I was depressed and I slept all the time.

Typically, when you have a depressed individual, they feel hopeless. They feel miserable. Their mind is racing, their heart is pounding. They feel anxious. They feel exhausted yet they can’t sleep.

Don’t fall asleep yet. Contrary to popular belief, that’s not where dreams get accomplished.

Sleep: the breakfast of champions

I’m awake and I can’t sleep. The more I’m awake, the more I see, and the harder to sleep.

When we are asleep, so it seems to me, we sleep surrounded by all the years. I have imagined, sleeping, that I heard the footsteps of the long-dead; I have held conversations with them, and...

You sleep too early every night trying to dream your dreams while I sleep late every night trying to fulfill mine.

Moments before sleep are when she feels most alive, leaping across fragments of the day, bringing each moment into the bed with her like a child with schoolbooks and pencils. The day seems to have...

No wonder Sleeping Beauty looked so good…she took long naps, never got old, and didn’t have to do anything but snore to get her Prince Charming.

At least when I’m sleeping I can dream myself back to Alex, can dream myself into a different world.

The monsters were neverunder my bed.Because the monsterswere inside my head.I fear no monsters,for no monsters I see.Because all this timethe monster has been me.

…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…

Forget it, Jonathan, and go back to sleep. And before you go to sleep, pray that no well-meaning god ever makes you immortal.

Sometimes sleep gets to be a serious and complete thing. You stop going to sleep in order that you may be able to get up, but get up in order that you may be able...

Now I know that twenty centuries of stony sleep were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, and what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

I said, ‘Women don’t normally sleep in a bra. I can’t wake up in this scene wearing a bra, it’s ridiculous,’

I go to sleep at night, and I feel like I just dreamed the whole day.

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...

Assim, quantas vezes, desperto e abandonado, não entrei pela noite dentro, aguardando não bem a madrugada nem o meu sono final, mas o vazio absoluto de um nunca mais para o passado e para o...

The cashier had long since left for home. By now she was probably bustling by an unmade bed that was waiting in her small room like a boat to carry her off to the black...

Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle,Earth and high heaven are fixt of old and founded strong.Think rather,–call to thought, if now you grieve a little,The days when we had...

Obviously, I’m suffering from lack of sleep, but it truly is a blessing to be a mother.

Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into itself until it has recognized I, and therefrom deduced I...

Time to start getting more sleep. This beautiful physique needs royal treatment.

People say, ‘I’m going to sleep now,’ as if it were nothing. But it’s really a bizarre activity. ‘For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I’m going to become unconscious, temporarily losing...

When a whisper seems like a shout, I know I need to get some sleep. But I can’t lay down without first taking off my bunny ears.

I have just been elected Captain of the Nap Squad. It’s a very exhausting position, and requires training twice a day, once when I get up and once before bed.

I wasn’t fast asleep. But only because I was sleep walking, and I’m not a speed walker.

Before he could lose courage he flung himself back and slammed his sleep-inducer to full theta.

Sleep, O sleep, my dearest boy. / I will cradle you, I will guard you.

He told me yesterday, ‘If you win, be careful with your neck. He said, ‘Sleep on the same pillow and don’t open the windows.

I had a dream about you. I had a flat tire on the interstate, which is really embarrassing for a hitchhiker who is using that tire as a substitute for pants. You were the only...

I make sleep like I make love, only with more energy and excitement.

I want to hold my grandpa in my arms and pet him while I fall asleep. That’s why I’m learning to play the guitar.