Asleep Quotes

1083 Asleep quotes by 772 unique authors

I had the same sensation as when we watch someone sleep. When asleep we all become children again. Perhaps because in the state of slumber… — Fernando Pessoa
The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psychosis in safety. — Ian Mcewan
She makes use of the soft of the bread for a napkin. She falls asleep at times with shoes on, on unmade beds. When a… — Anais Nin
With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep. — Chuck Palahniuk
The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison,… — Charles Dickens
She always had a headache, or it was too hot, always, or she pretended to be asleep, or she had her period again, her period,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ascension seemed at such times a natural law. If one added to it a law of completion - that everything must finally be made comprehensible… — Marilynne Robinson
...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the evening, is scarcely… — Virginia Woolf
While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. — Jonathan Safran Foer
THIRD WATCHER Let her speak. Don't interrupt. She knows words that mermaids taught her...I'm falling asleep in order to hear her...Go on, sister, go on...My… — Fernando Pessoa
Grace: I picked up my sweater from the floor and crawled back into bed. Shoving my pillow aside, I balled up the sweater to use… — Maggie Stiefvater
The city was asleep on its right side and shaking with violent nightmares. Long puffs of snoring came out of the chimneys. Its feet were… — Anais Nin
You ever notice how long it takes for things to happen when you know they're supposed to happen? My fake Walkman has a built-in alarm,… — Rodman Philbrick
Sunday night, I reread The Catcher in the Rye until I felt tired enough to fall asleep. Only I never got tired enough. And I… — Kami Garcia
I saw doves and I thought they were rocks, but they were asleep. My breath made them stir, and they rocks took flight, the earth… — Douglas Coupland
But some nights, I must tell you, I go down there after everyone has fallen asleep. I swim back and forth in the echoing blackness.… — Billy Collins
Are you always a smartass?' Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep. — Jim Butcher
I'd thought once, actually, of taking your mind, if you asked. I'd thought I could help you fall asleep at night." He opened his mouth… — Kristin Cashore
There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house. — Anne Tyler
The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes Licked its tongue into the… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Even at the age of eight she would fall asleep by pressing one hand into the other and making believe she was holding the hand… — Milan Kundera
You’re not asleep, and you’re not dead. I’m here, and I love you. I have always loved you, and I will always love you. I… — Stephenie Meyer
We talked through Gillie's life from start to finish, including all her accomplishments and major life events. The woman fell asleep with a dreamy half… — Maria V. Snyder
...And perhaps you can sense, in some small twisting loop of your gut, the convergence of the wrong, of the right, and of the woefully… — Neal Shusterman
For once, he slept first. She lay in the dark, listening to him breathe, stealing a little of his warmth as her own body cooled.… — Nora Roberts

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