Sleep Quote by John Steinbeck

“I fear being shaken out of them because I am afraid that my peaceful sleep may be followed by hard labour when I wake,…

— René Descartes

“Whatever we may say, all of us suffer from disturbed sleep at times. Some in truth hardly sleep, though some who sleep copiously swear…

— Gene Wolfe

“You’re surrounded by people in the waking period, and you feel their eyes and their hopes on you. You can’t stand up under it.…

— Isaac Asimov

“Sleep is a vortex in your tales, swirling a person into deep places of their minds where consciousness is scared to tread.”

— Andrew Barger

“In our culture, sleep is not respected very much at all. As a matter of fact,”

— Shawn Stevenson

“There are many who don't wish to sleep for fear of nightmares. Sadly, there are many who don't wish to wake for the same…

— Richelle Goodrich

“When we wake discouraged in the middle of the night, enemies that we had defeated long ago come back to haunt us.”

— Irvin D. Yalom

One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Always, in these times, I am wretched save when sleep comes to me. Therefore, I have come to look upon sleep as the best…

— Rosemary Sutcliff

“Some would rather fall into the sleep of death than wake up to the truth of life”

— Dean Cavanagh

“Most of all: There's uncertainty in our lives. At night, you just have to go to sleep and have faith in the fairly large…

— Josh Ritter

“Too many people surrender to a place of safety. That place where all they do is long to sleep so they can dream about…

— Kim Fay