Sleeping Quotes

1157 Sleeping quotes by 861 unique authors

You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of… — Jodi Picoult
On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide- it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese- the two paramedics… — Jeffrey Eugenides
I zipped myself all the way into the sleeping bag of myself, not because I was hurt, and not because I had broken something, but… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked… — John Steinbeck
For I had come back, and I dreamed once more in the cool air of the Highlands. And the voice of my dream still echoed… — Diana Gabaldon
It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you have to be… — Carol Shields
The rooms of his apartment were full with the dog home again, convalescing. He was satisfied to know, even when she was out of sight,… — Lydia Millet
We were kissing. I thought: This is good. I thought: I am not bad at this kissing. Not bad at all. I thought: I am… — John Green
She knew words no one had ever heard of, and she used words every day that had been mainly dead or sleeping for hundreds of… — Mark Helprin
You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind… — Raymond Chandler
Anyone who says, â€œHereâ€™s my address, write me a poem,â€ deserves something in reply. So Iâ€™ll tell you a secret instead: poems hide. In the… — Naomi Shihab Nye
If the past has nothing to say to the present, history may go on sleeping undisturbed in the closet where the system keeps its old… — Eduardo Galeano
Love's stories written in love's richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes. — William Shakespeare
He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence. — Virginia Woolf
One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
There's a moment when love makes you believe in death for the first time. You recognize the one whose loss, even contemplated, you'll carry forever,… — Anne Michaels
And yet, and yet, in these our ghostly lives, Half night, half day, half sleeping, half awake, How if our waking life, like that of… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
And we will be ready, at the end of every day will be ready, will not say no to anything, will try to stay awake… — Dave Eggers
I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking… — William Nicholson
I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I… — Dave Eggers

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