SLEEP QUOTES IV
quotations about sleep
If you didn't know what sleep was, and you had only seen it in a science fiction movie, you would think it was weird and tell all your friends about the movie you'd seen. They had these people, you know? And they would walk around all day and be OK? And then, once a day, usually after dark, they would lie down on these special platforms and become unconscious. They would stop functioning almost completely, except deep in their minds they would have adventures and experiences that were completely impossible in real life. As they lay there, completely vulnerable to their enemies, their only movements were to occasionally shift from one position to another; or, if one of the 'mind adventures' got too real, they would sit up and scream and be glad they weren't unconscious anymore. Then they would drink a lot of coffee.'
GEORGE CARLIN
Brain Droppings
Close your eyes and I'll close mine
Good night, sleep tight
Now the moon begins to shine
Good night, sleep tight
Dream sweet dreams for me (Dream sweet)
Dream sweet dreams for you
THE BEATLES
"Good Night"
Sleep, sleep all the sleepy town
You are the only one
Now only night lights flickering
Now all is said and done
Sleep, sleep all the sleepy town
You are the only one
All the moments from the rising
To the setting of the sun
THE VERVE PIPE
"Sleepy Town"
What hath night to do with sleep?
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
Ah, the joy of loving a sleeping thing! All true lovers know that wonder. Sleep is a great magician. His spells are woven in the darkness between the worlds; His philtres are made of herbs that grow by the great river of forgetfulness which flows by the throne of the All-knowing.
ELSA BARKER
Songs of a Vagrom Angel
Sleep is a shadow to eclipse the mind--
A sombre veil, that shrouds in dazzling light,
To give it greater lustre when withdrawn;
A see of fathomless nonentity,
Wherein the senses bathe their weary pow'rs,
And noble reason quaffs refreshing dews!
C. B. LANGSTON
"What Is Sleep?"
Sleep is one of the most productive things that we can do. We like to think that it's during the day that our minds are growing and that our bodies are getting stronger but it's actually quite the opposite. It's only when we sleep that both our physiology and psychology grows. So from a physiological standpoint, everything you do with your body, so just think about traditional exercise during the day, right? You are breaking your body down. And it's only during sleep that all the good growth-promoting hormones are released that allows your body to build back up. What's really interesting is that the mind functions in a very similar manner. So during the day, you might be exposed to all kinds of information, do problem-solving, various types of what I guess would be categorized as "learning". We might think it's during the day when we are doing all the hard work, that we are getting wiser and our minds are growing per se. But much like the body, that also happens when we sleep. So it's when we sleep that our mind consolidates, stores and connects all the information that we've been exposed to during the day.
BRAD STULBERG
"Here's why four hours of sleep is terrible for you -- even if you don't feel tired", Business Insider, August 18, 2017
Sleep is harder to reach and thinner, and sleeping is no longer the Drop into the black pit all oblivion until the alarm clock, no, sleep is thin and fitful and full of memories and reminders and the dark is never dark enough.
DORIS LESSING
Briefing for a Descent into Hell
It's in the morning, for most of us. It's that time, those few seconds when we're coming out of sleep but we're not really awake yet. For those few seconds we're something more primitive than what we are about to become. We have just slept the sleep of our most distant ancestors, and something of them and their world still clings to us. For those few moments we are unformed, uncivilized. We are not the people we know as ourselves, but creatures more in tune with a tree than a keyboard. We are untitled, unnamed, natural, suspended between was and will be.
JERRY SPINELLI
Stargirl
There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.
MINDY KALING
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Sleep, baby, sleep
Your father tends the sheep
Your mother shakes the dreamland tree
And from it fall sweet dreams for thee
NAT KING COLE
"Bedtime (Sleep Baby Sleep)"
Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.
UMBERTO ECO
The Name of the Rose
A man who falls straight into bed night after night, and ceases to live until the moment when he wakes and rises, will surely never dream of making, I don't say great discoveries, but even minor observations about sleep. He scarcely knows that he is asleep. A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.
MARCEL PROUST
Sodom and Gomorrah
Sleep is a form of death on the installment plan.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
The amount of sleep required by the average person is about half an hour more.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Oh sleep awhile, and stop the wheels of fate.
I think that there is privilege in woe,
And sorrow may not seize us everywhere,
And havoc doth not hunt where'er he list,
And sleep is halcyon time when griefs are still.
SYDNEY THOMPSON DOBELL
Balder
I think sleep is unrated.
TRACI LORDS
Twitter post, September 19, 2014
At the close of day
When the joys of the day fade away and the memories sweet
Of the day repeat
In our dreams they creep
While we sleep, sleep, sleep
EARL BOSTIC
"Sleep"
What means this heaviness that hangs upon me?
This lethargy that creeps through all my senses?
Nature, oppress'd and harrass'd out with care,
Sinks down to rest.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Cato
Despite fifty years of research all we can conclude about the function of sleep is that it overcomes sleepiness, and that the only reliable finding from sleep deprivation experiments is that sleep loss makes us sleepy.
JAMES HORNE
Why We Sleep