The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can’t get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
Sleep Quotes
What hath night to do with sleep?
O sleep, thou ape of death! (Cymbeline)
It is time now for us to rise from sleep.
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
I usually take a two hour nap from one to four.
That provisional tomb where the living exile sighs, weeps, fights and succumbs, and is born again, remembering nothing, with the day.
Reveille, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted.
It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.
When men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large white flakes falling on the city brown, Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying, Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town; Deadening, muffling, stifling its murmurs failing; Lazily and incessantly floating down and down: Silently sifting and veiling road, roof and railing; Hiding […]
