S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sleep away the years, sleep away the pain, wake tomorrow - a girl again.”
“Sleep came on him as a thief, consciousness stolen like a forgotten coin from his pocket.”
Source: Death's Dancer
“Sleep came slower than a frigid woman.”
Source: Kinky Friedman: Three Complete Mysteries : Greenwich Killing Time/a Case of Lone Star/When the Cat's Away
“Sleep can completely change your entire outlook on life. One good night's sleep can help you realize that you shouldn't break up with someone, or you are being too hard on your friend, or you actually will win the race or the game or get the job. Sleep helps you win at life.”
Source: Yes Please
“Sleep, child, for the stars await you.”
Source: The Great War of the Kins
“Sleep claimed her eventually. She slept heavily, welcoming the escape. But some time later, while it was still very dark, she found herself struggling upward through layers of dreams. Someone or something was in the room. Her first thought was that it might be Beatrix's ferret, who sometimes slipped past the door to collect objects that intrigued him.
Rubbing her eyes, Win began to sit up, when there was a movement beside the bed. A large shadow crossed over her. Before bewilderment could give way to fear, she heard a familiar murmur, and felt a man's warm fingers press across her lips.
"It's me."
Her lips moved soundlessly against his hand.
"Kev."
Win's stomach constricted with an ache of pleasure, and her heartbeat hammered in her throat. But she was still angry with him, she was done with him, and if he had come here for a midnight talk, he was sadly mistaken. She started to tell him so, but to her astonishment, she felt a thick piece of cloth descend over her mouth, and then he was tying it deftly behind her head. In a few more seconds, he had bound her wrists in front of her.
Win was rigid with shock. Merripen would never do something like this. And yet it was him; she would know him if only by the touch of his hands. What did he want? What was going through his mind? His breath was faster than usual as it brushed against her hair. Now that her vision had adjusted to the darkness, she saw that his face was hard and austere.
Merripen drew the ruby ring off her finger and set it off the bedside table. Taking her head in his hands, he stared into her wide eyes. He said only two words. But they explained everything he was doing, and everything he intended to do.
"You're mine."
He picked her up easily, draping her over one powerful shoulder, and he carried her from the room.
Win closed her eyes, yielding, trembling. She pressed a few sobs against the gag covering her mouth, not of unhappiness or fear, but of wild relief. This was not an impulsive act. This was ritual. This was an ancient Romany courtship rite, and there would be nothing half-hearted about it. She was going to be kidnapped and ravished.
Finally.”
Source: Seduce Me at Sunrise
“Sleep comes more easily than it returns.”
Source: The Works of Victor Hugo
“Sleep comes slowly to a mind of cluttered thoughts in search of order and resolve.”
“Sleep conceals the creative act while the objective world reveals it. In sleep man impresses the subconscious with his conception of himself.”
Source: Neville's Spiritual Classics
“Sleep crawled on top of me like an affectionate, purring pet-”
Source: If We Were Villains
“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.”
Source: The Innocence of Father Brown
“Sleep deficit and an anemic pocketbook dictate my erratic lifestyle.”
“Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity.”
“Sleep deprivation is the most common brain impairment.”
Source: The Promise of Sleep: A Pioneer in Sleep Medicine Explores the Vital Connection Between Health, Happiness, and a Good Night's Sleep
“Sleep deprivation, it seems, can giveth as much as it taketh away!”
Source: In Limbo
“Sleep deprivation made his life an imaginary thing, his days a ribbon floating aimlessly in water." - Whelk”
“Sleep did not honor me with it’s presence.”
Source: Sharden
“Sleep disorders are a known occupational hazard to astronomers and their support staff.”
“Sleep disorders are commonly misdiagnosed as mental health disorders.”
“Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death.”
Source: Plays and Stories: Arthur Schnitzler
“Sleep doesn't come easy when a broken twig conjures images of a hulking mental patient snapping the arms off children, over by the bin.”
“Sleep doesn't seem necessary. You wake up feeling great. But it's not all great feelings.”
“Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast!
Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest.”
“Sleep every chance you get. Eat every chance you get. Those were two of the many lessons that Kat learned at her father’s knee and her uncle’s table.”
“Sleep frees the soul from the fetters of latent terrors and from the dreariness of material reality. Guiding dreams provide us with a forecast of the future. An optimistic dream or a frightful nightmare can manifest from suppressed ambition, a vivid daytime experience, a repressed memory, an undeveloped or unheeded thought, an ignored sensation, or an overlooked occurrence.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Sleep grows thin, becomes brittle as writing paper, and eventually crumbles away. In the quiet corners of your conscious mind, memories are waiting. What they call forth cannot strictly be called nightmares.”
Source: Human Acts
“Sleep had ceased to be a mere physical necessity; it was something voluptuous, and debauch more than a relief.”
Source: Down and Out in Paris and London & the Road to Wigan Pier
“Sleep had not been a friend of mine since I was a child, for when I slept, I dreamt, and it was in my dreams that the masked man waited and watched.”
Source: My Brother's Spare
“Sleep has never been a priority in my life.”
“Sleep has no place it can call its own.”
Source: Dracula Scholar's Annotated Edition.
“Sleep has treasures in it and they are known as dreams!”
“Sleep hath its own world, and the wide realm of wild reality.”
“Sleep," he says. "I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you."
"With what?"
"My bar hands, obviously."
In the moments before i drift off to sleep, i hear him whisper, "I love you, Tris.”
Source: Insurgent
“Sleep heavily and know that I am here with you now. The past is gone, and cannot harm you anymore. And while the future is fast coming for you, it always flinches first and settles in as the gentle present. This now, this us? We can cope with that. We can do this together. You and I, drowsily, but comfortably.”
“Sleep helps you win at life.”
Source: Yes Please
“Sleep I must, to become one with the world.
Dream I must, for I am the world.”
Source: Dream Sutra: Perceiving Hidden Realms
“Sleep,” I tell the hunters. “We will leave at dawn of the second sun.”
The men scatter, though I doubt any of them will be able to sleep. They will be dreaming of flat-faced human women with third nipples and welcoming bodies.”
Source: Ice Planet Barbarians
“Sleep in a room with ambient noise.”
“Sleep in a world, your final sleep has woken”
Source: Carol Ann Duffy, Vicki Feaver, Eavan Boland
“Sleep in my arms like a little cat; I love your snoring and your smell.”
Source: A moment with God ; Poetry
“Sleep in my arms. Like a baby bird. Like a broom among brooms... in a broom closet. Like a tiny parrot. Like a whistle. Like a little song. A song sung by a forest... within a forest... a thousand years ago.”
“Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.”
Source: Poetical works
“Sleep in the bliss of God.”
“Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day.”
“Sleep is a death, O make me try
By sleeping, what it is to die,
And as gently lay my head
On my grave, as now my bed.”
Source: Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Religio medici. Pseudoxia epidemica, books 1-3
“Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.”
Source: The Poems of Abraham Cowley ...
“Sleep is a healing balm for every ill.”
“Sleep is a hint of lovely oblivion.”
Source: Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition
“Sleep is a kind of peace, and I have not yet earned peace.”
Source: Brother Odd
“Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the other who would drag us all into the eternal light”
Source: A Dance with Dragons