(1677 quotes found)
“I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.”
Harold Kushner
“We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.”
George Orwell
“Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them.”
C.S. Lewis
“Seven beers followed by two Scotches and a thimble of marijuana and it's funny how sleep comes all on it's own.”
David Sedaris
“In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.”
Luigi Pirandello
“Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.”
Bill Cosby
“I'm so tired, but I can't sleep...standing on the edge of something much too deep...funny how I feel so much but cannot say a word...we are screaming inside, oh, but we can't be heard...so afraid to love you, more afraid to lose...clinging to a past”
Sarah McLachlan
“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”
Bram Stoker
“I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.”
Mary Stewart
“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep: and yet a third of Life is passed in sleep”
Lord Byron
