2,273 Quotes About Sleep

Reason's a thing we dimly see in sleep.

What you hope for Is that at some point of the pointless journey, Indoors or out, and when you least expect it, Right in the middle of your stride, like that, So neatly that you never feel a thing, The kind assassin Sleep will draw a bead And blow your brains out.

I'm hyper light-sensitive and must sleep in the equivalent of a sealed tomb.

Consciousness: That annoying time between naps

Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?

Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?

The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on his own heart.

Come, blessed barrier between day and day, Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!

Sleep is such a potent, liminal state, and I don't want to drag anything in there that doesn't need to be there.