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Sleep Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat, are distilled here to a…
- The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no…
- One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
- Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
- He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.
- Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf,…
- Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.
- Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of…
- We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red…
- The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds…
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- 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