S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead.”
Source: Ancient Light
“Sleep is underrated. Sleep!”
“Sleep is very precious to me. I love to sleep.”
“Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.”
“Sleep is where we touch what is better left unexamined. There, the whole of life is bundled up, dwindled. There the carefully hoarded and enjoyed personality, our only treasure and at the same time our only defense must die into the ultimate truth of things, the black lightning that splits and destroys all, the positive, unquestionable nothingness.”
“Sleep is your friend. Dreams are your unwelcome guests.”
Source: Blood and gold, or, The story of Marius
“Sleep isn’t laziness — it’s survival.”
Source: Running On Empty: A Real-Life Guide to Managing Mental Health and Burnout
“Sleep. It’s like sex. You know it’s good, but you don’t know just how good until you’re not getting any.”
Source: Waiting For Spring
“Sleep...it's the only escape we have.”
Source: Fairy Tale
“Sleep just a while longer, that's it, where else can you go where you neither suffer nor cause suffering.”
“Sleep just gives the ego a little time out. It has to stay strong in order to be something that it isn't.”
“Sleep knits up the raveled sleeve of care.”
Source: The Tragedy of Macbeth
“Sleep knocks on my eyes: they grow heavy. Sleep touches my mouth: it stays open.
Truly, he comes to me on soft soles, the dearest of thieves, and steals my thoughts from me”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.”
“Sleep like you can never be dead
Dream as if you have a soul inside your head”
“Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
“Sleep looked peaceful from outside. It never felt peaceful from inside.”
Source: Scopophilia
“Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.”
“Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill.”
Source: The diary of a young girl
“Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. Similarly, someone who hears traumatic news will often swoon or faint. This is the mind's way of protecting itself from pain.”
Source: The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:
“Sleep!
May be you will wake up tomorrow and find that things never changed, the apocalypse never happened, and everything's fine, normal, at home.
Or may be you will wake up tomorrow and find that things have changed, for the better, the apocalypse is over and there's light, hope and a new home.
Sleep, you crazy soul, just sleep.”
“Sleep more at night. If it's allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You'll be amazed at how much better you'll feel.”
“Sleep my friend, and you will see that dream is my reality.”
“Sleep my little baby-oh Sleep until you waken When you wake you'll see the world If I'm not mistaken... Kiss a lover Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure... Face your life Its pain, Its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.”
“Sleep not my friend for this is the moment of intoxication as madness enters the deeps and the song of soul drowns out every reason you ever possessed......”
“Sleep not when others speak, sit not when others stand, speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not when others stop.”
Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts
“Sleep occupies a third of our life. It is the consolation to the woes of our days or the woe of their pleasures; but I have never found that sleep was a rest. After a swoon of a few minutes a new life begins, freed from conditions of time and space, and doubtless like the life which awaits us after death. Who knows whether there does not exist a link between these two existences, and whether it is not possible for the soul now to bind them together?”
Source: Aurélia
“Sleep of conscience, awakening of prejudice.”
Source: Time to End Democracy: The Meritocratic Manifesto
“Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.”
Source: Concord Days
“Sleep on, Baby, on the floor, Tired of all the playing, Sleep with smile the sweeter for That you dropped away in! On your curls' full roundness stand Golden lights serenely-- One cheek, pushed out by the hand, Folds the dimple inly.”
Source: Poetical works
“Sleep, or repose that deserved the name of sleep, was out of question. That room, in which her disturbed imagination had tormented her on her first arrival, was again the scene of agitated spirits and unquiet slumbers. Yet how different now the source of her inquietude from what it had been then; how mournfully superior in reality and substance.”
Source: Northanger abbey
“Sleep paralysis is a strange thing. I'd had dozens of episodes at university when I'd take naps, and when I looked at it, read that's something about the brain being disrupted and waking up before the body, which is why you can't move when you're hallucinating that there's a faceless man climbing across the floor towards you.”
Source: Queenie
“Sleep paralysis is something that is actually very common. Many people have it, I've had it myself. And what happens is, when you're in that REM stage of sleep, your brain is very active. You're dreaming your most during that stage, you're mind, your eyes are moving, there's a lot going on. It's like fireworks going on in your brain.”
“Sleep promotes wellbeing but giving up on a well-constructed investment strategy when markets become volatile is not in the best interest of your financial health.”
Source: Unbiased Investor: Reduce Financial Stress and Keep More of Your Money
“Sleep - real sleep, the dear, the cherished one, the lullaby. So deep and warm the bed and the pillow enfolding me, letting me sink into peace, nothingness - my dreams now, after the catharsis of the dark hours, are of young and lovely people doing young, lovely things, the girls I knew once, with big brown eyes, real yellow hair.”
“Sleep Red, I've got you." - Vaughn to Faith”
“Sleep's what we need. It produces an emptiness in us into which sooner or later energies flow.”
Source: M: Writings '67–'72
“Sleep sank them lower than the tide of dreams,
And their dreams watched them sink, and slid away.”
Source: The Essential Rossetti
“Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams.”
Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence
“Sleep soften sorrows.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Sleep sparks a series of pulses across the webs of neurons, pulses like waves; it washes out what is unnecessary and leaves only what's important behind.”
Source: Fates and Furies
“Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.”
Source: The Fireside Sphinx
“Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace;Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul,While the stars burn, the moons increase,And the great ages onward roll. Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet. Nothing comes to thee new or strange. Sleep full of rest from head to feet;Lie still, dry dust, secure of change.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.”
Source: Early Lectures: 1838-1842
“Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful, manly part, or a poor, drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions, they have a substantial truth.”
Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction and Notes
“Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care,
The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast.”
Source: Macbeth
“Sleep: the breakfast of champions”
“Sleep: The most relieving thing from all sufferings; It is free but not everyone lucky enough to have it”
“Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, morn of toil, nor night of waking.”
Source: The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations
“Sleep tight, ya morons!”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE