But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
James Thurber

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
Marian Wright Edelman

Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.
Tony Blair

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.
Doug Larson

I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.
Megan Fox

I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now.
Alicia Keys

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.
Tori Amos

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Salman Rushdie

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
Honore de Balzac

No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.
Karl Lagerfeld

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
Le Corbusier

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
Gaston Bachelard

We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.
Black Kettle

My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.
Mary Oliver

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
Nicolas de Chamfort

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
Luc de Clapier

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.
Evelyn Waugh

I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.
Twyla Tharp

You don't swing where you sleep.
Sammy Davis, Jr.