A. J. Jacobs Quotes, Jobs Quotes, Sleep Quotes

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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This sleep is sound indeed; this is a sleep That from this golden rigol hath divorc'd So many English kings.

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It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be left alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.

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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives.

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Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both.

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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Knees Quotes

There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service to my side are useless as wounded pride, and much more painful.

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I awoke you from your sleep because I saw that you were having a nightmare. And now you are cross and say to me: "What are we supposed to do now? Everything is still night!" You ingrates! You should go to sleep again and dream better.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Dream Quotes , Sleep Quotes

He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep.

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We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We ought to break our days and our marches into two.

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For some must watch, while some must sleep So runs the world away

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Ah, yes, the sea is still and deep, All things within its bosom sleep! A single step, and all is o'er, A plunge, a bubble, and no more.

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

It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Insomnia Quotes

Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep; And disgustingly upside down. Hanging upside down like rows of disgusting old rags And grinning in their sleep. Bats!

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Rags Quotes

Love's stories written in love's richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.

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When the journey's over/There'll be time enough to sleep.

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The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan against ideal plan.

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The world of sleep has an existence of its own.

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May the merciful god, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the cunning of man devises, can keep me from the chasm of sleep. Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but with him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore.

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Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.

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