The story was called ‘Annika and the Bears.’ The beginning of the story is really the end, and Annika is staring wide-eyed into new velvet-black darkness. The eyes she stares with were brown once, sparkling...

What hath night to do with sleep?

I want to get some sleep, so if there’s something mind-numbingly disturbing you want to show me, can we just get it over with?

No sleep is no problem,

Hard to say I’m sleeping.

I am myself when I get up, I am myself throughout the day and I am myself when I go back to sleep, you probably might have met someone else when I was asleep and...

Harry and I are expecting to sleep on the ground, maybe in a tent.

Of all the things which make up our Short-Time lives, sleep is surely the best.

Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyesWould, with themselves, shut up my thoughts…

I had a dream about you. You were being hung. I had a sword in one hand and a stool in the other. I couldn’t decide which one to use, so I stood on the...

Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.

I was still tossing and turning [in my sleep]. I didn’t even want to come into the office. I had it on paper, but everything that was good about West Virginia was still popping in...

In another world,’ he said, lowering his voice; I remember… was it not in another world, in a life which was not in thrall to sleep and its phantoms?…

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

Sleeping is nice. You forget about everything for a little while.

Is there any other time to be dancing alone to 50s music than 5 AM? I wish my grandpa thought so, because I’m trying to sleep in the ballroom.

At the end of the day” to bed.

I’m grateful for what you’ve done—and I’m ungrateful for what you haven’t done. A cup half full of coffee is also half full of sleep.

She asked me how I slept. Knowing she meant quality of sleep, I said I slept naked. It’s true. Ask any of the joggers who saw me sleepwalking.

I’m terrified of bugs and I travel with sprays, lotions, potions; the lot. I have to check the room before I go to sleep and if I come across a bug and fail to remove...

She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes. Don’t dreams in fairy...

I had a dream about you. You fell into my arms like a 120-pound sack of gold coins. So I did what any respectable lover would do—I buried you in the backyard so nobody could...

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.

It is not the dream of what you’re feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion.

All I want is to sleep–to dream. Life is better in dreams.

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...

Some sleep in their studios so they can wake and work.

For me, sleep equaled death. How was closing your eyes and losing consciousness any different from death? What separated temporary loss of consciousness from permanent obliteration?

Maybe his nightmare had been about me.

Every time we go to sleep, it’s a rehearsal of the day when our eyes will ultimately close and we wake up on the side of eternity.

I need about three seats lengthwise to sleep on a plane. It’s not easy for me to curl up.

The last thing she remembered before finally drifting off was how nice Steffi’s hair smelled.

…poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths…

My favorite cure for boredom is sleep. It’s very easy to get to sleep when bored and very hard to get bored after a long rest.

You have no control over how your story begins or ends. But by now, you should know that all things have an ending. Every spark returns to darkness. Every sound returns to silence. Every flower...

… sleep deprivation is an illegal torture method outlawed by the Geneva Convention and international courts, but most of us do it to ourselves.

There’s no relaxing. The more intensely you can get into the game, the better you are going to play. So I would keep intensity as much as I can and just pour all your energy...

Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living.

True sleep eluded me. Morpheus is a capricious god; he comes easily to some and only with greatest difficulty to others. To lure him, it is best to pretend disinterest. Engage the mind in some...

We waited too long to start playing. We kind of sleep-walked through 2-1/2 quarters. Then near the end of the third quarter, we finally started getting aggressive. We started driving the ball, and our defense...

The sleep he went back to was never the one he left.

I decided to stay in bed until noon. Maybe by then half the world would be dead and it would only be half as hard to take.

In every sound, the hidden silence sleeps.

That’s one thing people don’t know about me – I eat in my sleep. I can’t keep things in the house; I literally have in my refrigerator water, coconut water, orange juice, hemp milk and...

It’s the smell of him in the bathroom, all I need to get ready for the day. Watching him get dressed, and the sound in the kitchen; a slow hum of a song and his...

I’m romantic. I’ll try to make your bed while you’re still sleeping in it.