Sleeping Quotes

1157 quotes by 861 authors

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
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
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
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
Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village. — Gautama Buddha
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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