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“I've been able to sleep with my eyes open ever since I started watching baseball." "Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things.”

People Humans Children Littles Eye Able Individual Church Sleep Baseball Drinking Bored Human Life Enjoyment Confined Fathom

Author:Criss Jami

“In most of our dreams, our inner eye of reflection is shut and we sleep within our sleep. The exception takes place when we seem to awake within our dreams, without disturbing or ending the dream state, and learn to recognize that we are dreaming while the dream is still happening.”

Stills States Dream Seems Eye Sleep Happenings Reflection Awake Exception Our Dreams Disturbing

Author:Stephen LaBerge

“I had taken a partner once before—but, damnation, no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise you are a hermit in a cave, sleeping with one eye open.”

People Matter Eye Sleep Taken Fingers Partners Burned Caves Damnation Hermits

Book:The Door Into Summer

Source: The Door Into Summer

“I sleep 75 percent of all plane trips I take. I love red-eyes from West to East. I take Ambien to make sure I sleep. I always stay on West Coast time, and I'm always so fried when I come back, I usually sleep naturally.”

Eye Sleep Percent Red West East Planes Coast West Coast Ambien Red Eye

Author:Trent Dilfer

“Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.”

Heart Reality Eye Moving Imagination Sleep Land Sight Breathing

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment.”

Eye Sleep Habit Judgment

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“It's hard to tell / if we close our eyes or if night / opens in us other starred eyes, / if it burrows into the wall of our dream / till some other door opens. / But the dream is only the flitting costume of one moment, / is spent in one beat / of the darkness, / and falls at our feet, cast off / as the day stirs and sails away with us.”

Ifs Hard Moments Dream Eye Night Fall Sleep Darkness Doors Feet Wall Beats Casts Sail Costumes Our Dreams

Author:Pablo Neruda

“Soft closer of our eyes! Low murmur of tender lullabies!”

Eye Sleep Lows Lullaby

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the intellect, devoted to the contemplation of her own substance, as if awakened from deepest sleep, opens those eyes which all possess but few use, and sees in herself a ray of that light which is the true image of the angelic beauty communicated to her, and of which she then communicates a faint shadow to the body.”

Ifs Soul Matter Philosophy Use Body Light Eye Spiritual Sleep Study Shadow Vices Communicate Intellect Substance Contemplation Rays Spiritual Life Devoted Awakened Angelic

Book:The Book of the Courtier

Source: The Book of the Courtier

“Let not sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou has thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turned aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What have I left undone, which I ought to have done?”

Done Eye Past Fall Left Sleep Ought One Day Undone Transactions Thrice Rectitude

Author:Pythagoras

“Golden Verses So-called because they are "good as gold." They are by some attributed to Epicarmos, and by others to Empedocles, but always go under the name of Pythagoras, and seem quite in accordance with the excellent precepts of that philosopher. They are as follows: Ne'er suffer sleep thine eyes to close Before thy mind hath run O'er every act, and thought, and word, From dawn to set of sun; For wrong take shame, but grateful feel If just thy course hath been; Such effort day by day renewed Will ward thy soul from sin. E. C. B.”

Ifs Feels Mind Soul Seems Eye Running Suffering Courses Names Sleep Sin Effort Sun Gold Shame Grateful Philosopher Golden Excellent Dawn Verses Thoughts And Words

Author:Pythagoras

“Work is as much a necessity to man as eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing that can be called work still imagine they are doing something. The world has not a man who is an idler in his own eyes.”

Men World Inspirational Stills Eye Sleep Imagine Eating Idlers

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“I go to bed, and I wait for sleep as a man might wait for the executioner. I wait for its coming with dread, and my heart beats and my legs tremble, while my whole body shivers beneath the warmth of the bedclothes, until the moment when I suddenly fall asleep, as a man throws himself into a pool of stagnant water in order to drown. I do not feel this perfidious sleep coming over me as I used to, but a sleep which is close to me and watching me, which is going to seize me by the head, to close my eyes and annihilate me.”

Source: 13 Short Scary Stories: Masterpieces of the greatest writers

“So many I considered, closest to me,turned on a dime and sold me out dutifully,although that knife was chipping away at me,they turned their eyes away and went home to sleep.”

Home Eye Sleep Knives Closest Dimes Chipping Away

Author:Mariah Carey

“I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed. Inaction, no falsifying dream Between my hooked head and hooked feet: Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat.”

Dream Eye Sleep Perfect Feet Woods Inaction Hooked

Book:A Ted Hughes Bestiary: Selected Poems

Source: A Ted Hughes Bestiary: Selected Poems

“The mind has so many pictures Why can't I sleep with my eyes open? The mind has so many memories Can you remember what it looks like when I cry? I'm trying, trying to tell you All that I can in a sweet and velvet tongue But no words ever could sell you Sell you on me after all that I have done.”

Trying Mind Looks I Can Done Eye Remember Memories Sleep Cry Sweet Sells Tongue Velvet

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“Let the vow of this day keep itself wildly and wholly Spoken and silent, surprise you inside your ears Sleeping and waking, unfold itself inside your eyes Let its fierceness and tenderness hold you Let its vastness be undisguised in all your days.”

Eye Sleep Ears Silent Surprise This Day Waking Tenderness Vow Vastness Fierceness

Book:Come, Thief: Poems

Source: Come, Thief: Poems

“The Mackenzie had never met folk so poor in story and song and legends, and it moved him to a pity that pricked at his eyes. Without that tapestry of colour and words and ritual, what was life but eating and mating, sleeping and moving your bowels? All of them good and necessary, but not enough; and they themselves needed that framework too, to give them meaning.”

Giving Enough Stories Eye Moving Song Sleep Poor Needed Mets Eating Moved Folks Pity His Eyes Colour Ritual Legends Framework Tapestry Mating Bowels

Author:S.M. Stirling

“Let's take back the rainbow for God. Let the homosexual community find a different religious symbol to commandeer... What I want is for the Christian community to wake up, wipe the sleep from their eyes, and realize that they are in a spiritual battle that isn't going away and has no demilitarized zones. The rainbow is a symbol, but it's meaning points to the very character of God. So Christians, use this God-given symbol for His glory. Using it won't make you a homosexual.”

“That's the kind he usually knocks in in his sleep - with his eyes closed.”

Kind Eye Sleep Football His Eyes Commentators

Author:Archie Macpherson

“You, sleeping on your bed of nails. Weeping an ocean beyond the pale. Strange, sorrow is your greatest skill. You're suffering from overkill... Choose whether to laugh or to cry. Menace and promise mingle in your eye. Wait, it's only a matter of time. You know everything will be fine... Rain falls down and the seas run high. When you're by my side we can rise above it. Let me dry all the tears inside. On your way you cannot hide from the howling wind and the roaring tide. You might get hurt but your fears will subside when you at last escape from the tears inside.”

“A nap is not to be confused with sleeping. We sleep to recharge our bodies. We nap to care for our souls. When we nap, we are resting our eyes while our imaginations soar. Getting ready for the next round. Sorting, sifting, separating the profound from the profane, the possible from the improbable. Rehearsing our acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize, our surprise on receiving the MacArthur genius award. This requires a prone position. If we're lucky, we might drift off, but we won't drift far. Just far enough to ransom our creativity from chaos.”

“Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered sleep.”

Eye Water Sleep Bees Thighs Murmuring

Author:John Milton

“Beauties, when disposed to sleep, Should from the eye of keen inspector keep: The lovely nymph who would her swain surprise, May close her mouth, but not conceal her eyes; Sleep from the fairest face some beauty takes, And all the homely features homelier makes.”

Should May Eye Faces Sleep Mouths Surprise Lovely Features Her Eyes Homely Inspectors Nymphs

Book:The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes

Source: The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes

“On eyes that watch as well as eyes that weep Descends the solemn mystery of sleep, Toiling and climbing to the very close, The weary Body, longing for repose, On the gained level of the day's ascent, Halts for the night and pitches there its tent.”

Wells Body Eye Night Sleep Levels Watches Mystery Longing Climbing Weary Solemn Repose Halt Tents Ascent Toiling

Book:The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866

Source: The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866

“These visions which I saw were not in sleep nor in dreams, nor in my imagination nor by bodily eyes or outward ears nor in a hidden place; but in watching, aware with the pure eyes of the mind and inner ear of the heart.”

Mind Heart Dream Eye Imagination Sleep Vision Saws Pure Ears My Imagination

Author:Hildegard of Bingen

“Leave your bed upon the first desertion of sleep; it being ill for the eye's to read lying, and worse for the mind to be idle; since the head during that laziness is commonly a cage for unclean thoughts.”

Mind Firsts Eye Lying Sleep Bed Ill Laziness Idle Cages Desertion

Author:Frances Osborne

“Traveller, let your step be light, So that sleep these eyes may close, For poor Scarron, till to-night, Ne'er was able e'en to doze.”

May Light Eye Able Night Sleep Poor Steps Traveller These Eyes

Author:Paul Scarron

“Old people who live too long come to resemble turtles. As though time turned in a curve, and down they go to the reptiles again. Not the little wet naked frog they were born. But the tortoise. Cold eyes, sagging circles of skin, the nose becomes beak. The shell of sleep.”

People Littles Long Eye Age Born Sleep Cold Skins Circles Naked Old Age Noses Wet Shells Curves Old People Frogs Turtles Reptiles Tortoises Beaks Sagging Cold Eyes

Book:The Inland Island

Source: The Inland Island