S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.”
Source: By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept ; And, The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals
“Sleep undisturbed within this peaceful shrine,
Till angels wake thee with a note like thine.”
“Sleep, Violet." His arm tightens around me. "You love me," he whispers
"Stop reminding me. I thought we agreed not to fight tonight." I snuggle in deeper, his warmth lulling me into that sweet middle space between wakefulness and oblivion.
"Maybe you're not the one I'm reminding.”
Source: Iron Flame
“Sleep was a country for which he could not obtain a visa.”
Source: Bel Canto
“Sleep was a vehicle for passing the time, for avoiding the present. It was a trolley for the depressed, the impatient, and the dying.”
Source: Dust
“Sleep was good in this life, and she didn't wake up until the alarm went off at a quarter to eight. She drove to work in a tatty old Hyundai that smelled of dogs and biscuits and was decorated with crumbs, passing the hospital and the sports centre, and pulling up in the small car park outside the modern, grey-bricked, single-storey rescue centre.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“Sleep was the greatest invention in the history of mankind. When I was sleeping, I wasn’t feeling guilty, or miserable, or sad.”
“Sleep well and wake, Rand al'Thor.”
Source: The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'
“Sleep well in your room all three together... don't worry about me being alone.”
“Sleep well, Lady Mariko, You are loved. It isn't enough, but it's all I have.”
Source: Smoke in the Sun
“Sleep well, my beautiful lover,” I said. “. . . the journey is just getting started.”
Source: The Voyeur's Yacht
“Sleep well, and stay where I put you.”
“Sleep when your baby sleeps. Everyone knows this classic tip, but I say why stop there? Scream when your baby screams. Take Benadryl when your baby takes Benadryl. And walk around pantless when your baby walks around pantless.”
“Sleep, where in the waste is the wisdom?”
Source: Finnegans Wake
“Sleep with a dog and rise full of fleas.”
Source: Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin
“Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.”
Source: The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631: With a Memoir of His Life
“Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-”
“Sleep with rockstars...Support the arts.”
“Sleep with truth as your blanket and lies will never leave your soul cold in the dead of night.”
“Sleep without the fragrance of her hair next to him was impossible.”
“Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams.”
Source: If I Stay
“Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I've heard people talk about the sleep of the dead. Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind. If that's what dying is like, I wouldn't mind that at all.”
Source: If I Stay
“Sleep your way to the top.”
“Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet my axe is restless in my hand. Give me a row of orc-necks and room to swing and all weariness will fall from me!”
Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume
“Sleep! The most beautiful experience in life. Except drink.”
“Sleep's the only medicine that gives ease.”
“Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, and down drops a little dream for thee.”
“Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death”
Source: The odyssey
“Sleep, ignorant of pain, sleep, ignorant of grief, may you come to us blowing softly, kindly, kindly come king.”
“Sleep, my little one, sleep.”
“Sleep, my love," He whispered, smoothing her long hair, lifting the damp locks away from the back of her neck. "I'll be here to watch over you." "You sleep too," she said groggily, her hand creeping to the center of his chest. "No." McKenna smiled and pressed a soft kiss against her temple. His voice was husky with wonder. "Not when staying awake is better than anything I could find in a dream.”
“Sleep, nature's rest, divine tranquility, That brings peace to the mind.”
“Sleep, nurse of our life, care's best reposer.”
“Sleep, rest of nature, O sleep, most gentle of the divinities, peace of the soul, thou at whose presence care disappears, who soothest hearts wearied with daily employments, and makest them strong again for labour!”
“Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity,
Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify,
Weary bodies refresh and mollify.”
“Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.”
“Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings Indifferent host to shepherds and kings Sole comforter to minds with grief oppressed.”
“Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,Dreaming o'er the joys of night.Sleep, sleep: in thy sleepLittle sorrows sit and weep.”
Source: William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose
“Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.”
Source: The Common Reader
“Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye.”
“Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that which it typifies, restricted to the earth. It flies from hell and is excluded from heaven.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”
“Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe.”
Source: The Complete Greek Drama: All the Extant Tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the Comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, in a Variety of Translations
“Sleep, thou repose of all things; sleep, thou gentlest of the deities; thou peace of the mind, from which care flies; who doest soothe the hearts of men wearied with the toils of the day, and refittest them for labor.”
“Sleep, to the homeless thou art home; the friendless find in thee a friend”
Source: Kerhonah ; The Vernal Walk ; Win Hill: And Other Poems
“Sleep,” he says. “I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you.” “With what?” “My bare hands, obviously.”
Source: Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)
“Sleep. It's like giving yourself a massage.”
“Sleep. To lie down and shut out the noise, the fear, the unceasing misery.”
Source: Otherland: City of Golden Shadow
“Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine!”
“Sleep: the stepchild of Death.”
Source: The Sonja Blue Novels Books 1–4: Sunglasses After Dark, In the Blood, Paint It Black, and A Dozen Black Roses