What hath night to do with sleep?
John MiltonTags: sleep night paradise-lost
The habit is now confirmed in me of spending the greater part of the day in sleep, while by night I wander far and wide through the city under the sedative influence of a tincture which has become necessary to my life
M.P. ShielTags: sleep night drugs decadence decadent
A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
Emily BrontëHe 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 space, he also lacked the desire. ... In utter comfort, utter relaxation he lay absolutely still for a while, and then sank back into on the the light momentary sleeps that occur after a long, profound one.
Paul BowlesTags: sleep
If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryTags: sleep creativity
It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this.
Jonathan FranzenTags: sleep enchantment
He slept like an animal, well and lightly, faced in the opposite direction from that of a man; for a man going to sleep is about to escape into it while animals are prepared to escape out of it.
Theodore SturgeonTags: sleep
Several people toss and turn in their sleep, startled by the lines of the newspapers in their dreams, knives out, lights out, lights out, knives out!
H.C. ArtmannTags: sleep dreams newspapers surrealism
No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out.
Bohumil HrabalTags: books sleep authors brains underwear
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 falling over edges.
Tom RobbinsTags: humor inspirational writing sleep thought-provoking
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