Sleeps Quotes

“A man that sleeps all night wastes too much of life.”

“She sleeps. And now she wakes each day a little less. And, each day, takes less and less nourishment, as if grudging the least moment of wakefulness, for, from the movement under her eyelids, and the somnolent gestures of her hands and feet, it seems as if her dreams grow more urgent and intense, as if the life she lives in the closed world of dreams is now about to possess her utterly, as if her small, increasingly reluctant wakenings were an interpretation of some more vital existence, so she is loath to spend even those necessary moments of wakefulness with us, wakings strange as her sleepings. Her marvellous fate - a sleep more lifelike than the living, a dream which consumes the world.'And, sir,' concluded Fevvers, in a voice that now took on the sombre, majestic tones of a great organ, 'we do believe . . . her dream will be the coming century.'And, oh, God . . . how frequently she weeps!”

“She sleeps like a cocoyam. A thing without senses. She sleeps like his mother, unplugged from the world.”

“A stranger sleeps next to me, like a stone beside another stone.”

“Foolishness sleeps soundly, while knowledge turns with each thinking hour, longing for the dawn of answers.”

“The only time she has anything resembling a life is when she sleeps because when she sleeps she can dream.”

“I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.”

“Good soul easily sleeps well.”

“In every sound, the hidden silence sleeps.”