S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.”
Source: The Time Traveler's Wife
“Sleep is my only ally united by a dream treaty”
“Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation.”
Source: Waiting for the Barbarians
“Sleep is no mean art.”
“Sleep is no servant of the will; it has caprices of its own; when courted most, it lingers still; when most pursued, 'tis swiftly gone.”
“Sleep is not a dead space, but a doorway to a different kind of consciousness—one that is reflective and restorative, full of tangential thought and unexpected insights. In winter, we are invited into a particular mode of sleep: not a regimented eight hours, but a slow, ambulatory process in which waking thoughts merge with dreams, and space is made in the blackest hours to repair the fragmented narratives of our days.”
Source: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
“Sleep is not an incidental detail in scripture. It is scattered across the entire Bible, from start to finish, and it is inherently tied to multiple individuals, significant events, key conversations, spiritual truths, and overarching periods in time and history. There is not a single section in the Bible that is left untouched by the reality of sleep.”
Source: A Theology of Sleep: Trusting in the Lord When You Are Most Vulnerable
“Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with them.”
“Sleep is NOT the enemy of productivity, but rather the foundation of productivity.”
Source: UnLearn: A Practical Guide to Business and Life
“Sleep is not, death is not; Who seem to die Live. House you were born in, Friends of your spring-time, old man and young maid, Day's toil and it's guerdon, They are all vanishing, Fleeing to fables, Cannot be moored”
Source: The Annotated Emerson
“Sleep is often a form of escapism.”
“Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.”
Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics
“Sleep is our connection to the part of ourselves that isn’t bound with physical restrictions”
Source: Outsiders: The Story of Success
“Sleep is our recharge function and our reset button...and we all need a reset button sometimes.”
Source: Resilient Me: How to Worry Less and Achieve More
“Sleep is out... tired is the new black.”
“Sleep is over-rated. Have you ever noticed how it's always recommended to people anybody with half a brain can see need to wake up?”
Source: Mohawk
“Sleep is pain's easiest salve”
Source: Selected Poetry
“Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfil
All offices of death, except to kill.”
“Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.”
“Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.”
Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash
“Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as legislature.... So people who go to bed to sleep Must count French premiers or sheep, And people who ought to arise from bed Yawn and go back to sleep instead.”
Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash
“Sleep is really important. You need to rest the physiology to be able to work weel and meditate well. When I don't get enough sleep, my meditations are duller. You may even dip into sleep at the beginning of your meditation, because you're settling down. But if you're well rested, you'll have a clearer deeper experience.”
“Sleep is rest for the rich, but laziness for the poor.”
Source: These Words Pour Like Rain
“Sleep is simply a chemical change in our brain and body (melatonin) - It?s not a place we go, it is a state of being that we fall into.”
“Sleep is so cute when it tries to compete with the internet.”
“Sleep is so vital that we do not have to earn it.”
“Sleep is still difficult I sleep for three or four hours a day. Usually sometime in the afternoon. I walk in the cold, keep myself numb. I cry less, and less." (James Frey, pg.88)”
“Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.”
Source: Sons and Lovers: Top Novelist Focus
“Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other, knits the sleep, so that it takes the body and soul completely in its healing.”
Source: Sons and Lovers: Top Novelist Focus
“sleep is such a luxury, which i cant afford.”
“Sleep is such a potent, liminal state, and I don't want to drag anything in there that doesn't need to be there.”
“Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.”
“Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.”
“Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.”
Source: Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha
“Sleep is the best meditation.”
“Sleep is the best time to repair, but it's hard to get a good night's rest when we don't dial the inner chatter down.”
“Sleep is the gateway to those nightly visitations of the irrational.”
Source: Insomniac
“Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death. The higher the interest rate and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed”
“Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.”
Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays
“Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.”
“sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.”
Source: Letters to Milena
“Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture I find debasing... I simply cannot get used to the nightly betrayal of reason, humanity, genius.”
Source: Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
“Sleep is the most unambitious of pursuits.”
Source: On Sleep
“Sleep is the new sex.”
Source: Anyone Can Grow Up: How George Bush and I Made it to the White House
“Sleep is the only balm I know.”
Source: The Bear
“Sleep is the only rest we get;
It's then we are at peace.
We do not have to mop away the floor
And wipe away the grease.”
Source: The Penelopiad
“Sleep is the only thing I stay awake for.”
Source: To Hear The Ocean Sigh
“Sleep is the price we pay for learning”
Source: International Review of Neurobiology, Volume 37: Selectionism and the Brain
“Sleep is the single most effective thing we can do to reset our brain and body health each day -- Mother Nature's best effort yet at contra-death.”
Source: Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
“Sleep is the sister of death and the dwellers of heaven will not sleep”