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Quotes about sleep
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The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows. (Wright Steven)
Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations. (Wright Steven)
There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act. We surrender to sleep, but in the way that the master entrusts himself to the slave who serves him. (Wright Steven)
We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers. (Wright Steven)
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Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul. (Wright Steven)
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. (Wright Steven)
Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind. (Wright Steven)
We are not hypocrites in our sleep. (Wright Steven)
Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe. (Wright Steven)
I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius. (Wright Steven)
He who sleeps half a day has won half a life. (Wright Steven)
Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction. (Wright Steven)
And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created. (Wright Steven)
The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the I, under another form, continues the task of existence. (Wright Steven)
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own. (Wright Steven)
Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool. (Wright Steven)
A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures. (Wright Steven)
The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife; and these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them, and such as it is to be of these more or less I am, and of these one and all I weave the song of myself. (Wright Steven)
Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear, your head like the golden-rod, and we will go sailing away from here to the beautiful land of Nod. (Wright Steven)
Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life. (Wright Steven)
I like sleeping on the bus, ... I sleep really well on the bus. It's like you're in this little coffin and you're moving, so you just sleep real good and it's really dark. And it's cool going to sleep in one town and waking up in another town. You know, you have no worries. All you have to do is just stumble off the bus and then you're there. (Wright Steven)
Getting plenty of sleep is always great. It really is. I have a girlfriend who's sending me a slant board. (Wright Steven)
I've never slept much, ever. Since I was born, I haven't. (Wright Steven)
I used to wear boxers and a tank top, but now I sleep in the nude. It's kind of weird, because I used to have to wear something to bed, whether it was a tank top or whatever. And now if I have any clothes at all on, it's really hard to get to sleep. (Wright Steven)
I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us. (Wright Steven)
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