Sleeping Quotes
1157 quotes by 861 authors
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One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession. Writing has to…
— Unknown Author
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The poisonous serpent of afflictions is sleeping in your mind; just as if a black viper were asleep in your room. You must use the…
— Gautama Buddha
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My only relief is to sleep. When I'm sleeping, I'm not sad, I'm not angry, I'm not lonely, I'm nothing.
— Jillian Medoff
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Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack.
— Gautama Buddha
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Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.
— Gautama Buddha
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The real work of this life is not what we do every day from 9-5...The real work is to be passionate, be holy, be wild,…
— Geneen Roth
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How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking…
— Plato
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Lieutenant Welsh remembered walking around among the sleeping men, and thinking to himself that 'they had looked at and smelled death all around them all…
— Stephen Ambrose
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I hope you all find yourselves sleeping with someone you love, maybe not all of the time, but a lot of the time. The touch…
— Eileen Myles
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Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by sleeping alone, do…
— Gautama Buddha
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My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag…
— Ben Affleck
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If we do not do this our churches will lighthouses without light, wells without water, dumb witnesses, sleeping watchmen, silent trumpets, messengers without tidings, a…
— Robert E. Lee
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Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died.
— Thomas Hood
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What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract storm.
— Robert Penn Warren
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Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping,' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they're full of lines that leave you…
— Bill Pullman
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With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I…
— Bill Pullman
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Even in these mercifully emancipated decades, many people still seem quite seriously alarmed at the prospect of sleeping away from officially consecrated campsites, with no…
— Colin Fletcher
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Let sleeping dogs lie or lying dogs sleep or whatever. Time to move on. People get divorced. Life doesn't owe you your own personal happy…
— Axl Rose
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Man lives on earth not once, but three times: the first stage of his life is his continual sleep; the second, sleeping and waking by…
— Unknown Author
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From this height the sleeping city seems like a child's construction, a model which has refused to be constrained by imagination. The volcanic plug might…
— Ian Rankin
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