Top 1200 Need Sleep Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I try to get 11 or 12 hours of sleep a night. It sounds excessive but that's really what I need.

You're trying to sleep off a debt that you've lumbered your brain and body with during the week, and wouldn't it be lovely if sleep worked like that? Sadly, it doesn't. Sleep is not like the bank, so you can't accumulate a debt and then try and pay it off at a later point in time.

I have to arrange my life very carefully. I need eight hours' sleep to work.

I need nine hours of sleep because of all the activity I do. It doesn't always happen, but I really try.

I've had insomnia since I was a little kid and I never sleep well. Sometimes I sleep very badly and sometimes I sleep slightly badly. I get it especially when I'm on tour because you cross a lot of time zones, and I'm not very adaptable.

I usually sleep four or five hours, but when you are training, you need more than that.

I sleep 75 percent of all plane trips I take. I love red-eyes from West to East. I take Ambien to make sure I sleep. I always stay on West Coast time, and I'm always so fried when I come back, I usually sleep naturally.

We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone.

On occasion, it's rough for me to sleep because I have a lot of things on my mind, so I'll need to get a little more sleep sometimes. I'm up late because I've got a lot of energy and a lot of things on my mind all the time, and I'm up early 'cause I've got things to do, so that's the only thing. That's how I like it; I like to be busy.

I know how much sleep I need, how much time on the elliptical I need, and how much chocolate that buys me.

They eat, they crap, they sleep, and if they're crying they need to do one of the three and they're having trouble doing it. Real simple.

Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.

Sleep is extremely important to me - I need to rest and recover in order for the training I do to be absorbed by my body.

Dreamt I died in Chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). Need to write my will today.

The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you Don't go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep! People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch, The door is round and open Don't go back to sleep!

People say like, "I don't know how you do it. You must get no sleep." I actually do get the right amount of sleep every night. That's my rule. But if I'm writing until six in the morning I sleep until two in the afternoon and it's the only thing that keeps me healthy and sane.

I can't lose sleep over people who need every last thing spelled out for them.

I think that sleep and work are very closely related - not because you can work while you're sleeping and sleep while you're working. That's not really what I mean. I'm talking specifically about the fact that sleep and work are phase-based, or stage-based, events.

Normally, adults process their waking experiences during sleep. Children cannot yet carry their waking experiences into sleep. Thus, in sleep, they settle into the general cosmic order without taking their physical experience into the cosmic order.

You've gotta love the game. To become really good, you need to live it and sleep it.

Death is not as terrible as you think. It comes to you as a healer. Sleep is nothing but a counterfeit death. What happens in death we can picture in sleep. All our sufferings vanish in sleep. When death comes, all our mortal tortures cease; they cannot go beyond the portals of death.

We actually don't know the function of sleep all that well yet, but sleep is a time of quiescence in the brain.

We've looked at sleep diaries of patients with insomnia, and they'll say that they don't sleep for one or two days. And the body actually has a natural function, after about the third day to start catching up and you get a little bit more sleep the third night. And that's usually what I tell my patients.

Some struggle with medical issues - like insomnia - that make sleep hard. But for many of us, the quantity and quality of sleep come down to a matter of choice. Still, only a few enterprising economists have looked closely at this, and generally, those have assumed that we choose our hours of sleep optimally.

It doesn't need to be the same every day, doesn't need to be the same shower I use, the same restaurant I go to, the same hour I go to sleep. I've always been very flexible. I don't care if I practice at nine in the morning or 10 P.M.

Sleep is such a potent, liminal state, and I don't want to drag anything in there that doesn't need to be there.

They say teenagers can sleep all day. I often used to look at dogs and be amazed by the way they seemed to sleep for twenty hours a day. But I envied them too. It was the kind of lifestyle I could relate to.We didn't sleep for twenty hours, but we gave it our best shot.

A lot of people have money, but they don't have peace with it. They can't sleep. They need bodyguards every day.

I actually don't sleep much; I only need about four hours a night.

Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, morn of toil, nor night of waking.

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.

I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.

Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.

I've always had this hyper kinetic energy, so I don't really need much sleep at night.

No one warns young people to follow Adam's example. He waited till God saw his need. Then God made Adam sleep, prepared for his mate, and brought her to him. We need more of this 'being asleep' in the will of God.

Other people need a full night's sleep in order to function and be healthy and alert. But I'm different.

How about those people who don't need sleep? What are they called again? Successful? What a bunch of dicks they are.

Sleep can completely change your entire outlook on life. One good night's sleep can help you realize that you shouldn't break up with someone, or you are being too hard on your friend, or you actually will win the race or the game or get the job. Sleep helps you win at life.

Let us rejoice that we are poor, And have no gold to keep: We do not need to bar the door Ere we can go to sleep.

Oh, I don't need sleep. I just went to my hotel room and had a cold hot dog and a vodka on the rocks.

We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.

Lack of sleep makes me less productive. I need a good seven or eight hours a night.

I'm lucky, I guess. I only really need five or so hours of sleep.

I need eight hours of sleep, but I never get it except at weekends.

Sleephackers go to bed with sensors on their wrists and foreheads and maintain detailed electronic sleep diaries, which they often share online. To shift between sleep phases, sleephackers experiment with various diets, room and body temperatures, and kinds of pre-sleep physical exercise.

I would say sleep can always be emphasized - I didn't do it enough in my 20s, because you don't think you need it.

I sleep all day. Noises flit around the house- garbage truck in the alley, rain, tree rapping against the bedroom window. I sleep. I inhabit sleep firmly, willing it, wielding it, pushing away dreams, refusing, refusing. Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion. [...] It is afternoon, it is night, it is morning. Everything is reduced to this bed, this endless slumber that makes the days into one day, makes time stop, stretches and compacts time until it is meaningless.

Maybe I need some rehab, Or maybe just need some sleep

Since my body isn't big, I don't need much sleep. I'm fine with four hours.

Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.

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

...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom in the old way ... We weren't starving, we weren't bugged by the police, locked up in madhouses for our ideas, arrested, deported, slave laborers sent to die in concentration camps. We were spared the holocausts and nights of terror. With our advantages we should be formulating the new basic questions for mankind. But instead we sleep. Just sleep and sleep, and eat and play and fuss and sleep again.

The need to eat, sleep and dry out plays havoc with your sense of wonder.

I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep is the consummate protection against the unseemliness that is the invariable consequence of being awake. What you don't know won't hurt you. Sleep is death without the responsibility.

I need to be professional, rest, look after myself, and sleep a lot.

I'm a sex machine to both genders. It's all very exhausting. I need a lot of sleep.

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

So if somebody has chronic pain, we want to manage the pain, but we still want to treat the insomnia separately. So what we'll tend to do in our sleep lab is we'll do a thorough evaluation and we usually have myself, who is a Psychologist and a Sleep Behavioral Sleep Specialist, I treat the patients first.

It's an industry of lonely people in a crowd, Bill Margold was saying. 'They're scared to get close to each other. You're far better off having someone to sleep next to then having someone to sleep with because you have to trust someone you sleep next to.