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Sleep Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.
- I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me.
- You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly; while…
- A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards,…
- Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under…
- A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand…
- The worst of sleeping out of doors is that you wake up so dreadfully early. And when you wake up you have to get up…
- Certainly, Lu. Whatever you like,' said Peter unexpectedly. This was encouraging, but as Peter instantly rolled round and went to sleep again it wasn't much…
- Fancy sleeping on air. I wonder if anyone's done it before. I don't suppose they have. Oh, bother—-Scrubb probably has!
- Lucy woke out of the deepest sleep you can imagine, with the feeling that the voice she liked best in the world had been calling…
- Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.
- Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot,…
- I was driven to Whipsnade one sunny morning. When we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God, and…
- This is where men, even the trustiest, fail us. Their heart is never so wholly given to any matter but that some trifle of a…
More Sleep Quotes
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker. — Darren Aronofsky
- A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to… — Teresa of Avila
- The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not… — Gaston Bachelard
- Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. — Francis Bacon
- I think of being an actor as kind of a young man's gig. It's emasculating, in a way, people messing with you… — Kevin Bacon
- The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure. — Christian Bale
- A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning. — Honore de Balzac
- I feel more comfortable when I'm lighter - I sleep better, I snore less, I have more endurance when I work out,… — Tyra Banks
- These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity,… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are… — Amelia Barr