I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist. - Lynda Barry Bethany and I often hook up like this. She texts me at the height of her boredom, unable to sleep, and since it's past midnight she's probably drowning her sorrows. - Penelope Fletcher Dreams should be forgotten when we wake. Or one day we will find ourselves unable to sleep. - Spider Robinson I see all this talent, all this...this energy and brightness and...potential. Yes. Potential. And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life. This life that will take place almost entirely within a five mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night. - Jojo Moyes For the first time in memory, I was unable to sleep not because I was anxious but because I was excited. To live in a damp crowd...

Love. He recoiled from the very idea. He knew all about love: love was following his best friend around school like a lost puppy, putting up with all manner of shit just to be near him. Love was sobbing himself to sleep night after endless night because the guy who'd taken his virginity hadn't called him back. Love was a thousand shattered dreams and a flood of memories that made him cringe. Love could fuck off. - Kate Aaron If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places. - Mark Twain In the distant past, Muslim doctors advised nervous people to look up at the sky. Forget the tight earth. Imagine that the sky, all of it, belonged to them alone. Crescent, low moon, more stars than the eyes looking up at them. But the sky was free, without any price, no one I knew spoke of it, no one competed for it. Inste...

You are not very tall are you?" "I try to be". Exchange between Martha Vickers and Bogie in "The Big Sleep". - Raymond Chandler What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the Big Sleep.. - Raymond Chandler You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was. - Raymond Chandler Before I sink into the big sleep I want to hear the scream of the butterfly.....Blood is the rose of mysterious unionJim Morrison - Jim Morrison

One of the worst ways of being aroused from sound sleep, is by the noise of a dragon and a unicorn playing tag. - Robert Asprin The incapacity of sound sleep denotes a mind sorely wounded. - Charles Brockden Brown When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion. - Mason Cooley She was in a sound sleep, Jude, dying of anxiety lest she should have caught a chill which might permanently injure her, was glad to hear the regular breathing. He softly went nearer to her, and observed that a warm flush now rosed her hitherto blue cheeks, and felt that her hanging hand was no longer cold. Then he stood with his back to the fire regarding her, and saw in her almost a divinity. - Thomas Hardy I fell into a sound sleep and dreamed that I was at a banquet back in Gion, talking with an elderly man who was explaining to me that his wife, whom he'd cared for deeply, wasn't really dead because the pleasure of their time together lived on inside him. - Arthur ...

Did you sleep well?" "No, I made a couple of mistakes. - Steven Wright Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone? - Gael Garcia Bernal Like it or not, there are people who are capable to love genuinely and kill brutally. The amazing thing about that, few of those could even sleep well like babies in the night. - Toba Beta You know that feeling you get when your leg falls asleep? Well, I suddenly had that feeling in my spine. Like termites were chewing through the marrow in my backbone. - Neal Shusterman One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. - Virginia Woolf Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just ha...

Merry Christmas to all, and y'all sleep tight. - Po Bronson Chiron insisted that we talk about the Labyrinth in the morning which is like 'Hey, your life's in mortal danger. Sleep tight! - Rick Riordan Chiron had insisted we talk about it in the morning, which was kind of like, Hey, you're life's in mortal danger. Sleep tight! - Rick Riordan

I asked John if it was a crime to want to live in a world where girls with falcon eyes and pretty underwear believe in the saving grace of rock 'n' roll and he said, "Just check your chute before you jump, that's all I'm saying." Gotta get some sleep. Over. - Tiffanie Debartolo I wished I could shut it in a locket to wear aroung my neck. I wish a thousand-year sleep would find us, at this absolute second, like the sleep over the castle of Sleeping Beauty. - Janet Fitch Always Wear Flats and Have Your Friends Sleep Over: A Step-by-Step How-To Guide for Avoiding Getting Murdered - Mindy Kaling No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs. - Harold Macmillan I'm going to be who I am. And if you find it offensive, if you find it to be too tough, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. - Michael Michele I don't lose sleep over what I have done or have nightmares about it. - Dennis Nilsen You have a couple of buddies sleep over, and, you kno...

If he could sleep on it. He would make his bed with white sheets And disappear into the white, Like a man diving, If he could be certain That the light Would not keep him awake, The light that reaches To the bottom. - Donald Justice A blanket could be used as an example for how you should make important decisions. Don't give me a yes or a no now. Sleep on it and get back to me in the morning. - Jarod Kintz

she makes me wash, they make me comb all to thunder; she won't let me sleep in the woodshed... the widder [widow] eats by a bell; she goes to bed by a bell; she wakes up by a bell-everything's so awful reg'lar a body can't stand it - Mark Twain Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception. - Mark Twain In the distant past, Muslim doctors advised nervous people to look up at the sky. Forget the tight earth. Imagine that the sky, all of it, belonged to them alone. Crescent, low moon, more stars than the eyes looking up at them. But the sky was free, without any price, no one I knew spoke of it, no one competed for it. Instead, one by one those who could afford it began to sleep indoors in cool air-conditioned rooms, away from the mosquitoes and the flies.. - Leila Aboulela At length the Lady Galadriel released them from h...