264 Quotes About Sleeping


  • Author Edward John Trelawny
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    At last, giving me the boat's sail for a bed, he stretched himself out on the jagged rocks, and slept soundly as the unsanctified in a comfortable pew of a church; --I wish the benches were softer, and the cushions higher, as then more people might be tempted to take a nap; it is my only reason for never going.

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  • Author E.L. James
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    You smell heavenly. I slept on your side of your side of the bed because your pillow smells of you.

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  • Author Jacquelyn Mitchard
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    There's a strange sensation - you recall it from childhood - about sleeping in the afternoon. You rise into a different world from the one in which you lay down. The shadows have been rearranged. There's a sensation of sad sweetness, as if something has been overlooked. I used to feel it coming out of the movies just before dinnertime, after the matinee. How, I wondered, did Broadway actors face it, this bittersweet sense of time's slipping past.

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  • Author Robert Rankin
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    Omally, as ever, slept the sleep of the just, which was quite unjust of him, considering he had no right to do it.

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