Slept Quotes

425 Slept quotes by 360 unique authors

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
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
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
slept all night in the cedar grove, i was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin' for the holy grail, but there… — Tom Waits
Every part of my body felt electric. My chest ached and my head throbbed with the great terrible limitless possibility of the morning, and when… — Dave Eggers
When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would… — Cormac McCarthy
We slept in the same bed. There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessary. The books in my father's shed… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I… — C.S. Lewis
She was tired of hugging pillows, counting on blankets for warmth, and reliving romantic moments only in her dreams. She was tired of hoping that… — Cecelia Ahern
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

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