Virginia Woolf Quotes, Book Quotes, Sleep Quotes

Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf, this having done with the triumphs of youth, lost herself in the process of living, to find it with a shock of delight, as the sun rose, as the day sank. Many a time had she gone, at Barton when they were all talking, to look at the sky; seen it between peoples shoulders at dinner; seen it in London when she could not sleep. She walked to the window.

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What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Men Quotes

A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Sleep Quotes

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

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Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the mind out of its sleep-induced introspective temper.

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Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Mind Quotes

This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society; the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, dispute and pun, the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description.

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'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.'

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Imagination Quotes

Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.

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When we sleep the soul is lit up... by many eyes, and with them, we can see everything that we cannot see in the daytime.

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Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Eye Quotes

My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still, And there's a barrel that I didn't fill Beside it, and there may be two or three Apples I didn't pick upon some bough. But I am done with apple-picking now. Essence of winter sleep is on the night, The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Fall Quotes , Sleep Quotes

So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest so gently, that we go, Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay, Being too full of sleep to understand How far the unknown transcends the what we know.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Nature Quotes , Sleep Quotes

My wife and I always have a winter holiday that I call the "fly and flop". In January and February, you don't want culture, you just want to get your bones warm and eat, drink, sleep. We usually go to the Caribbean.

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

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Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast...

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All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Boys Quotes

Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.

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A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.

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Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.

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Tags : Emily Bronte Quotes , Death Quotes , Sleep Quotes

leave me in peace, let me sleep one night at least without my pillow being wet with tears, my eyes burning and my head throbbing

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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Eye Quotes

A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.

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