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“...the souls of none of them were dead, but only sleeping; now and then they would waken, and these were cruel times.”
“Sleep, where in the waste is the wisdom?”
“If you can't turn off your thoughts, who cares how soft your pillow is?"- David King”
“But lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direct...”
“I felt myself falling asleep; my eyes were closing, and then I thought, Maybe I should just kill myself. Suicidal thoughts always sneak up on me like that. But I dont mind them. Theyre like aspirin...”
“The weekends are too short for sleep!”
“Sleep is the only thing I stay awake for.”
“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
“Sleep is God. Go worship.”
“For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the last thing I want to do.”
“Some people wake up drowsy. Some people wake up energized. I wake up dead.”
“If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.”
“Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.”
“It was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who had blocked the way.”
“There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand across her forehead, but there was also no one more ferocious when anyone disturbed the sensuality of...”
“Also, I could finally sleep. And this was the real gift, because when you cannot sleep, you cannot get yourself out of the ditch--there's not a chance.”
“She used to say she could taste sleep and that it was as delicious as a BLT on fresh French bread.”
“No wonder Sleeping Beauty looked so good...she took long naps, never got old, and didn't have to do anything but snore to get her Prince Charming.”
“Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.”
“He awoke, opened his eye. The room meant very little to him; he was too deeply immersed in the non-being from which he had just come. If he had not the energy to ascertain his position in time and ...”
