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“Feeling sorry for our bodies ought to be the closest we get to feeling sorry for ourselves.”

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“It is one thing to crawl into bed after a normal day, but it is another thing to crawl into bed after an adventure - that's the best kind of sleep, the still-excited, still-buzzing kind of sleep where dreams blur into reality and it's almost like the sleeping and waking worlds blur and become one.”

Sleep Adventure

Book:Everything All at Once

Source: Everything All at Once

“The games played into the night tires the brain into exquisite sleep which will be redeemed as energy for tomorrow's flight.”

Author:Harry Howard

“Sleep!” cried Father Brown. “Sleep. We have come to the end of the ways. Do you know what sleep is? Do you know that every man who sleeps believes in God? It is a sacrament; for it is an act of faith and it is a food. And we need a sacrament, if only a natural one. Something has fallen on us that falls very seldom on men; perhaps the worst thing that can fall on them.”

Faith Sleep Sustenance Sacrament

Book:The Innocence of Father Brown

Source: The Innocence of Father Brown

“When exactly did I give myself over to sleep? When did I stop resisting...? I used to be so lively, I was always wide awake — but when was that?”

Sleep Melancholy Japanese Literature

Author:Banana Yoshimoto

“Sleep is key. Most people need upwards of fourteen hours or so. The modern age has forced us to live unnatural lives. Busy, busy, busy. Go, go, go. You probably work too much.”

Humor Sleep Satire Ottessa Moshfegh My Year Of Rest And Relaxation

Book:My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Source: My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“And yet I was aware of the nothingness. I was awake in the sleep, somehow. I felt good. Almost happy.”

Sleep Unconscious Nothingness My Year Of Rest And Relaxation Ottessa

Book:My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Source: My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“I'd rather eat shit than have to work for that cunt one more day," I told her. "Didn't you say she was married to a prince or something?" "Exactly," I answered. "But that was just a rumor anyway." "So you're not sick?" "I'm resting." I lay down on the sofa to demonstrate. "That makes sense," Reva said, nodding compliantly, although I could tell she was suspicious. "Take some time off and think about your next move. Oprah says we women rush into decisions because we don't have faith that something better will ever come along. And that's how we get stuck in dissatisfying careers and marriages. Amen!" "I'm not making a career move," I started to explain, but I went no further. "I'm taking some time off. I'm going to sleep for a year.”

Humor Sleep Dialogue Time Off Ottessa Moshfegh My Year Of Rest And Relaxation

Book:My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Source: My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“I'd stay home through the blizzard and get some hard sleeping done. I'd return to my old rhythm, my daily rituals. I needed the stability of my familiar routine.”

Humor Sleep Routine Stability Sleeping Ottessa Moshfegh My Year Of Rest And Relaxation Reclusive

Book:My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Source: My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“To see the sun shining on its bright grass, fresh, when we first visited it, with the autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the trees which have overgrown the tomb of Cestius, and the soil which is stirring in the sun-warm earth, and to mark the tombs, mostly of women and young people who were buried there, one might, if one were to die, desire the sleep they seem to sleep.”

Death Poetry Sleep Sun Tomb

Book:Percy Bysshe Shelley

Source: Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Did you sleep good?" "Well as can be expected without formal training I suppose”

Sleep Training Humorous Quotes

Author:Neil Leckman