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Sleep Quotes by Emile M. Cioran
- In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.
- Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
- The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational…
- Read day and night, devour books—these sleeping pills—not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of…
- In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.
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