Their Sleep Quotes
30 quotes by 29 authors
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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
— Albert Camus
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Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women, and children have…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep,…
— Anthony de Mello
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Germans grew reluctant to stay in communal ski lodges, fearing they might talk in their sleep. They postponed surgeries because of the lip-loosening effects of…
— Erik Larson
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Lights come and go in the night sky. Men, troubled at last by the things they build, may toss in their sleep and dream bad…
— Loren Eiseley
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Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches, And seeing theirs,…
— Kathleen Raine
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Who knows but on their sleep may rise Such light as never heaven let through To lighten earth from Paradise?
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts…
— John Stuart Mill
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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising
— John Stuart Mill
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How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains…
— William Shakespeare
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I am not a complete vegetarian. I eat only animals that have died in their sleep.
— George Carlin
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Dogs...do not ruin their sleep worrying about how to keep the objects they have, and to obtain the objects they have not. There is nothing…
— Eugene O'Neill
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If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can…
— Robert Fripp
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
— Paracelsus
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Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It's nothing. Just sad dreams. Or something like that...Swing…
— Martin Amis
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...people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender…
— Milan Kundera
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Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,' she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. 'What nice dreams they must have!
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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He lay on his back in his blankets and looked our where the quartermoon lay cocked over the heel of the mountains. In the false…
— Cormac McCarthy
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The upshot of her tirade was that I was the devil's spawn and should be locked up in a tower before I unleashed hordes of…
— Kelley Armstrong
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The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds…
— Virginia Woolf
Who Wrote These Their Sleep Quotes
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