I write in my sleep. I don't know how, but I'll work on a song, go to sleep and it's finished when I wake up.
If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?
I think I rest in the moment of not being able to rest. I rest by trying to make the moment as efficient as possible.
Pleasure puts you to sleep and pain wakes you up. If you don't want to suffer, don't go to sleep.
Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door; Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs the eternal sleep, But in the stillness far withdrawn Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.
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.
You can't go to sleep without a cup of tea and maybe thats the reason that you talk in your sleep.
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.
People live in sleep, do everything in sleep, and do not know they are asleep.
His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.
Sleep is for those people who are broke. I don't sleep. I've got an opportunity to make a dream become a reality.
Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.
The most important thing to do for me physiologically is to sleep when I'm tired. I love to sleep and it's very restorative.
Sleep is probably my favorite activity. I wrote this piece out of gratitude that I'm able to sleep well as an offering to people who don't.
Sleep is the sister of death and the dwellers of heaven will not sleep
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, morn of toil, nor night of waking.
This sleep is sound indeed; this is a sleep
That from this golden rigol hath divorc'd
So many English kings.
Sleep is a outmoded concept. It's best not to think about sleep.
My first trimester I was so exhausted. I could sleep 10 hours, then wake up, look in the mirror and still have eyes like a hound dog! I felt like the life was sucked out of me, no matter how much sleep I got. It was obvious that my body was really busy doing something else and 'beauty sleep' didn't exist anymore!
So it comes to this; one doesn’t need rest. Why bother about sleep if one isn’t sleepy? That stands to reason, doesn’t it? Wait a minute, there’s a snag somewhere; something disagreeable. Why, now, should it be disagreeable? …Ah, I see; it’s life without a break.
And soon all of us will sleep under the earth, we who never let each other sleep above it.
Better to die, and sleep
The never-waking sleep, than linger on
And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.
My girlfriend says that I thrash throughout the night, for longer periods than are generally accepted as corresponding to REM sleep, and she often has to move to the couch to get any sort of rest before she goes to work in the morning.
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.
The cure until the late 1940s, when there was an antibiotic discovered for tuberculosis, was basically rest. It was fresh, cold air, lots of food - five meals a day, lots of sleep, not very much talking, and for some people, complete stillness.
His are the quiet steeps of dreamland, The waters of no-more-pain; His ram's bell rings 'neath an arch of stars, "Rest, rest, and rest again.
I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed.
We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
When you have a baby, sleep is not an option. You can't sleep. Even on vacation, you wake up at 6:30 a.m.
Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I've heard people talk about the sleep of the dead. Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind. If that's what dying is like, I wouldn't mind that at all.
We actually don't know the function of sleep all that well yet, but sleep is a time of quiescence in the brain.
Well does he sleep who knows not that his sleep has been broken.
If I worried about what the media said I wouldn't get much sleep and I'm able to sleep pretty well.
I realised you owned me one night in this room. I was singing to you and you were sleeping. You made a little noise in your sleep like you were distressed and I panicked and ran to your side. You grabbed my arm in your sleep and pulled it up against your face and went back to sleep. I didn't want to ever move.
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams.
Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.
I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.
We sleep researchers like cats, you know; they sleep a lot!
The time of night when you sleep makes a significant difference in terms of the structure and quality of your sleep.
I try to get as close to 10 hours of sleep each night, as sleep is the best form of recovery.
Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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!
Human beings generally need between six and eight hours of restful sleep each night. Restful sleep means that you're not using pharmaceuticals or alcohol to get to sleep, but that you're drifting off easily once you turn off the light and are sleeping soundly through the night.
Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.
I know only one thing. when i sleep, i know no fear, no, trouble no bliss. blessing on him who invented sleep. the common coin that purchases all things, the balance that levels shepherd and king, fool and wise man. there is only one bad thing about sound sleep. They say it closely resembles death.
I don't sleep, but I've got two little kids that don't sleep, either.
The sleep of a sick man has keen eyes. It is a sleep unsleeping.
Because you may think a bed is a peaceful thing, Sir, and to you it may mean rest and comfort and a good night's sleep. But it isn't so for everyone; and there are many dangerous things that may take place in a bed.
I make sure I have ample sleep, so no late nights out, as sleep is so important for a healthy mind and body.
I'd rather sleep on the bus than in the hotel because I sleep way better on tour buses.
Do you tend to sleep in during the weekends? That usually signals that you're trying to sleep off a debt you've accumulated during the week.
'O sleep, O gentle sleep,' I thought gratefully, 'Nature's soft nurse!'
It's much easier for me to sleep in space than it is back home. We sleep in a cabin, and you can float inside.
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.
I don't do anything but sleep, when I'm not working. I have no life. I'm no fun. All I want to do is sleep and get ready for the next day. It's awesome.
Sleep is an essential part of life-but more important, sleep is a gift.
I need to sleep more. The 'sleep when I die' mantra is not cute.
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