Quotations About / On: SLEEP

  • 1.
    Life itself is a bubble and a skepticism, and a sleep within sleep.
    (Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Experience," Essays, Second Series (1844).)
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  • 2.
    Sleep, ignorant of pain, sleep, ignorant of grief, may you come to us blowing softly, kindly, kindly come king.
    (Sophocles (497-406/5 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Philoctetes, l. 827.)
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  • 3.
    Life is struggle and sleep.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Eleventh Selection, New York (1993).)
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  • 4.
    We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
    (William Hazlitt (1778-1830), British essayist. The Plain Speaker, "On Dreams," (1826).)
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  • 5.
    A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
    (Adrienne Rich (b. 1929), U.S. poet. Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (l. 26). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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  • 6.
    Tired minds don't plan well. Sleep first, plan later.
    (Walter Reisch (1903-1963), Austrian screenwriter, and Charles Brackett (1892-1969), U.S. Henry Levin. Prof. Oliver Lindenbrook (James Mason), Journey to the Center of the Earth, as they lie exhausted on the beach after the storm (1959).)
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  • 7.
    You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
    (Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987), U.S. diplomat, writer. Little Mary, in The Women, act 3 (1936).)
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  • 8.
    I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
    (Walter Reisch (1903-1963), Austrian screenwriter, Charles Brackett (1892-1969), U.S., and Henry Levin. Count Saknussemm (Thayer David), Journey to the Center of the Earth, at the edge of the sea, explaining to Lindenbrook why he isn't resting (1959).)
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  • 9.
    In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.
    (Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936), Italian author, playwright. Silia, in The Rules of the Game, act 2.)
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  • 10.
    If, as a feminist leader, I try to help out the career of a rising woman faculty leader—I'm sleeping with her.
    (Theo J. Kalikow (b. 1941), U.S. educator. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A16 (June 16, 1993). The interim president of Plymouth State College (New Hampshire) was remarking on the tendency toward unfounded speculation in academia about feminists', and women college presidents', sexual orientation and behavior.)
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