Awakening Quote by Maurice Nicoll

Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure…

— Ben Stein

The world of sleep has an existence of its own.

— Victor Hugo

Human enhancement is now being driven by military imperatives, at least in the US, because civilian society is more conservative in its approach. It’s…

— Jessa Gamble

We actually don't know the function of sleep all that well yet, but sleep is a time of quiescence in the brain.

— Shelby Harris

Still, there is something emboldening about being awake when the rest of the world is sleeping. Like I know something they don't.

— Craig Silvey

We are living on the brink of the apocalypse, but the world is asleep.

— Joel C. Rosenberg

Sleep is like medicine, it fixes us.

— Angela Scanlon

Humanity has been sleeping-and still sleeps-lulled within the narrowly confining joys of its little closed loves. In the depths of the human multitude there…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.

— Dan Simmons

I've always thought sleep was a wonderful invention. Not that being awake isn't nice too, of course. But when I get up in the…

— Anne Tyler

There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.

— Sri Aurobindo

Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not…

— Samuel Johnson