Sleep Quotes

"I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That’s why I’m trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning."

Stephen Chbosky

"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 on hour more of sleep and live."

Sylvia Plath

"Sleep my little baby-ohSleep until you wakenWhen you wake you'll see the worldIf I'm not mistaken...Kiss a loverDance a measure,Find your nameAnd buried treasure...Face your lifeIts pain, Its pleasure,Leave no path untaken."

Neil Gaiman

"I’m not a very good sleeper. But you know what? I’m willing to put in a few extra hours every day to get better. That’s just the kind of hard worker I am."

Jarod Kintz

"I want to go to sleep in my time machine and wake up eight hours in the future."

Jarod Kintz

"I love sleepwalking, because when else would I get to combine exercise and rest?"

Jarod Kintz

"I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me."

Sylvia Plath

"I had a dream about you. No words were exchanged, but we spoke with our eyes. My eyes said, “I love you,” while your eyes told me, “I’m asleep.” You always were more romantic than me."

Jarod Kintz

"I make love with a focus and intensity that most people reserve for sleep."

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

"My I love you was a measured response, like one gallon of coffee in one cup of sugar. It was just overflowing with an awakening of my soul."

Jarod Kintz

"Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world."

Heraclitus

"If you need me I’ll be napping in the supplies closet. The most important part of an attack is the planning."

Jarod Kintz

"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."

Jarod Kintz

"I told the joke, but someone else got the high five. That’s like me drinking a cup of coffee and a guy in a coma waking up. Go back to bed, buddy."

Jarod Kintz

"I morphed from a fly to a flower to a butterfly, which is like a combination flower and fly. I thought I was in love, but I was merely asleep."

Jarod Kintz

"You gotta run more than your mouth to escape the treadmill of mediocrity. A true hustler jogs during the day, and sleepwalks at night."

Jarod Kintz

"A tornado is the ultimate coffee grinder. Just add water, and you’ll wake the whole trailer park."

Jarod Kintz

"I slept through the award presentation for Napper of the Year. They had to wake me when I won. Winning was like a dream come true."

Jarod Kintz

"I am restless when I rest. I sleep like I’m engaged in an invisible wrestling match. Naturally, I almost always win."

Jarod Kintz

"Every morning I push through the pain—and force myself to keep sleeping, despite my aching body’s cries to quit. I am a champion."

Jarod Kintz

"I sleep when I blink. I dream like I love—continuously."

Jarod Kintz

"A starving man asleep dreams of food, and even a crumb becomes a feast. When you’re hungry for affection even a no is better than being ignored."

Jarod Kintz

"I went for a walk this morning because the evening was still asleep. Well technically so was I, but that didn’t stop me from exercising."

Jarod Kintz

"If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go."

Nikos Kazantzakis

"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."

Jarod Kintz

"There’s sleep to be found here, and I’m going to find it—with my eyes closed. I’m like Sherlock Holmes meets Helen Keller. #Networking"

Jarod Kintz

"I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is."

Jennifer Niven

"I match my pajamas to my comforter so I can disappear into sleep. I’m camouflaged into noonexistence, where I don’t wake up until 12:00 PM."

Jarod Kintz

"I had a dream about you. We installed Dr. Robert Jarvik’s artificial heart in a mannequin and brought it to life, only to later kill it because a creature that’s all fake heart and no brain is what’s commonly called a “politician,” and must be destroyed."

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

"I had a dream about you. You were an escalator, and I was a flight of stairs. You thought I was a Luddite, and I thought I was as ostrich, because I hadn’t figured out how to put the fly in flight. One day you broke down, and then you saw that you and I weren’t so different after all."

Dora J. Arod

"I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep."

Ann Voskamp

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

Michael Summers

"Every day I type out my dream scribbles from the night before, looking for treasure buried deep in my subconscious."

Jarod Kintz

"Read her poetry before you make love to her. That way she’ll be asleep when you do. I’m as romantic as a rocking chair with wheels."

Jarod Kintz

"I’m so restless when I rest that I make sleepwalkers look like statues. If The Thinker could run 26.2 miles, it would need a baseball glove to catch me."

Jarod Kintz

"Wisdom comes through suffering.Trouble, with its memories of pain,Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,So men against their willLearn to practice moderation.Favours come to us from gods."

Aeschylus

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

Amy Summers

"When people ask me how I slept, I tell them I don’t know—I’ll have to ask The Professor, and read his notes on my performance."

Jarod Kintz

"The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first awake."

Roman Payne

"I’m not good at talking. Can’t I just nod my way through a conversation? It’s better than nodding off."

Jarod Kintz

"Gabe?"The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him. "There could be love", Jonas whispered."

Lois Lowry

"I had a dream about you last night.. you were holding a pine cone and introducing him as Gerald."

Nicole McKay

"Nobody sleeps at the Inn of Innovation. You don't wake up, but you do #startup."

Jarod Kintz

"No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out."

Bohumil Hrabal

"I had a dream about you. I was sitting on your couch, relating my succession of ideas on subconscious influence. I asked you what they meant, and you told me that free associations were a bad way to advance my political career."

Bauvard

"I had a dream about you last night. I could fly. I was going to use this power to impress you, but you were too heavy to carry, so I won you over with my personality instead"

Michael Summers

"Sleep is the breakfast of champions. This morning I had two big bowls full, each two hours deep."

Jarod Kintz

"Last night I didn’t sleep for a solid eight hours. No, it melted a little. Damn global warming."

Jarod Kintz

"I like the posture, but not the yoga. I like the inebriated morning, but not the opium. I like the flower but not the garden, the moment but not the dream. Quiet, my love. Be still. I am sleeping."

Roman Payne

"I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift."

Pete Wentz, Gray

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