Sleeps Quotes

250 Sleeps quotes by 196 unique authors

What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The shadow by my finger cast Divides the future from the past: Before it, sleeps the unborn hour, In darkness, and beyond thy power. Behind… — Henry Van Dyke
A person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing you to grow. Without them, it sleeps- seldom to awaken. The sleeper must awaken. — Frank Herbert
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The smile that flickers on a baby’s lips when he sleeps- does anyone know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a… — Rabindranath Tagore
I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity. Clouds pass and disperse.… — Sylvia Plath
He awoke, opened his eye. The room meant very little to him; he was too deeply immersed in the non-being from which he had just… — Paul Bowles
When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body and the illusion… — Flann O'Brien
Ceux qui revent eveilles ont conscience de 1000 choses qui echapent a ceux qui ne revent qu'endormis. The one who has day dream are aware… — Edgar Allan Poe
We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another, and no sunrise finds us where left by sunset. Even… — Khalil Gibran
In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried… — Robert Green Ingersoll
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank Here we will sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness, and… — William Shakespeare
A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear. — William Shakespeare
Yes, the world may aspire to vacuousness, lost souls mourn beauty, insignificance surrounds us. Then let us drink a cup of tea. Silence descends, one… — Muriel Barbery
When one sleeps on the floor one need not worry about falling out of bed. — Anton Szandor LaVey
Friend of fatherless! Fountain of happiness! Lord of the swill-bucket! Oh, how my soul is on Fire when I gaze at thy Calm and commanding… — George Orwell
More like some small, fierce bird of prey, something with a sharp bite. An owl perhaps, that speaks only when the rest of the world… — Juliet Marillier
Not to mention, it’d be worth guarding her just for the eye candy alone – sheez, can you imagine being around that day in and… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
In San Francisco - life goes on. Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is… — Hunter S. Thompson
She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and… — Paulo Coelho
She sleeps: her breathings are not heard In palace chambers far apart. The fragrant tresses are not stirr'd That lie upon her charmed heart She… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will… — Nikos Kazantzakis
The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her friends are threatened? She suddenly… — Tamora Pierce
You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love. You have both sentiments… — Charlotte Bronte
The boogeyman sleeps on your side of the bad Whispers in my ear :"Better of Dead" Fills my dreams with sirens and lights of regret… — Gayle Forman

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