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Sleep Quotes by Fernando Pessoa
- The idea of any social obligation [...] just the idea of it embarasses my thoughts for a day, and sometimes it's since the day before…
- 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…
- When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability…
- The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.
- If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the rarer potion mine…
- Once we're able to see this world as an illusion and a phantasm, then we can see everything that happens to us as a dream,…
- I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget,…
- Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real…
- Silence emerges from the sound of rain and spreads in a crescendo of gray monotony over the narrow street I contemplate. I’m sleeping while awake,…
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- 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
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- 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