Slept Quotes

425 quotes by 360 authors

The first night Stephen and I slept together, he whispered numbers into my ear: long, high numbers -- distances between planets, seconds in a life.… — Peter Cameron
No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and… — Alexandre Dumas
Morning: Slept. Afternoon: Slept. Evening: Ate grass. Night: Ate grass. Decided grass is boring. Scratched. Hard to reach the itchy bits. Slept. — Jackie French
The girls I dream of are the gentle ones, wistful by high windows or singing sweet old songs at a piano, long hair drifting, tender… — Tana French
I remember, in hot floods, the way he slept, still as death, with his face washed flat, stony as a carved tomb and exquisite. His… — Katherine Dunn
The gourney, the big file drawers of the dead, the instruments of dissection - this sure looked like the morgues in the movies. Something had… — Christopher Moore
If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience. — Graham Greene
Remember when i slept with my head in a puddle at your feet? It was humility, or atonement. later your ankle was a pillow and… — Michelle Tea
They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm.… — A. S. Byatt
Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able… — Jonathan Safran Foer
My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
A short time later, when the carpenter was taking measurements for the coffin, through the window they saw a light rain of tiny yellow flowers… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of… — Tom Robbins
The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept. — Jack London
They slept profoundly, desperately, greedily, as though for the last time, as though they had been condemned to stay awake forever and had to drink… — Hermann Hesse
It was watching Madeline Alby eat cheese with every ounce of her being, like it was the first and best time, that made him realize… — Christopher Moore
What I saw was more than I could stand. The noise I heard had been made by Little Ann. All her life she had slept… — Wilson Rawls
So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but… — Graham Greene
You have grudged the very fire in your house because the wood cost overmuch!" he cried. "You have grudged life. To live cost overmuch, and… — Jack London
And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and burn up and… — Rainer Maria Rilke

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