Quotation Explorer - 'Asleep'

We, hurt by ourselves, keento be hurters and keento be hurt back deep inside.We, like weapons laidbeside anger asleep. - Rainer Maria Rilke
Those who commit suicide, pensive, lonely, philosophers, are awake in life, which is a serious crime. In life everybody must be asleep. - Bangambiki Habyarimana
KEEP, v.t. He willed away his whole estate, And then in death he fell asleep, Murmuring: "Well, at any rate, My name unblemished I shall keep." But when upon the tomb 'twas wrought Whose was it? -- for the dead keep naught. Durang Gophel Arn - Ambrose Bierce
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. - Heinrich Heine
Max looked around. "Where's your mutt?""Right here, asleep. He won't bite you again. I've talked to him about it, and he's really sorry - Rachel Gibson
Dream while you are awake; act while you are asleep. - Debasish Mridha
Dreams can only be seen with open eyes, what you see while you asleep are nightmares. - Amit Kalantri
My Love wakes in a puddle of sunlight.Her hands asleep beside her.Her hair draped on the lawnlike a mantle of cloth.I give her my troth, for our love is wholeI sing her beauty in my soul - Roman Payne
In most gardens they make the beds too soft so that the flowers are always asleep. - Lewis Carroll
It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake. - Mark Twain
After 40 years of marriage, isn’t it amazing when you can look at your partner sound asleep next to you and still believe they have potential. - Kaylin McFarren
All humans are dead except those who have knowledge; and all those who have knowledge are asleep, except those who do good deeds;and those who do good deeds are deceived, except those who are sincere;and those who are sincere are always in a state of worry. (rahimullah) - Imam Shafi’i
How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day. - Anne Frank
Bedtime is fraught with fear and disappointment. When it is just me alone with my restless body and mind, I feel like the whole world is asleep and gone. It's very lonely. I am tired of being tired and talking about how tired I am. - Amy Poehler
I want more,' he says. 'I want more with you. I want to hold hands in public. I want to drive you home from work and give you a kiss good night. And talk on the phone so late we fall asleep. - Julie Murphy
Don't fall asleep yet. Contrary to popular belief, that's not where dreams get accomplished. - George Watsky
California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.
My Love wakes in a puddle of sunlight.Her hands asleep beside her.Her hair draped on the lawnlike a mantle of cloth.I give her my lifefor our love is wholeI sing her beauty in my soul. - Roman Payne
...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces... - Maquita Donyel Irvin
You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time. - Steven Wright
I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you. - Roy Orbison
Good night - may you fall asleep in the arms of a dream, so beautiful, you'll cry when you awake. - Michael Faudet
I feel like I'm sleeping when I'm awake, and really living when I'm asleep. - Michael J. White
Be my bedtime story and the thoughts that won't let me fall asleep. Be the conversation that I always have in my head at 3 AM and that beautiful voice that never lets me sleep. - Akshay Vasu
Sometimes I wake up and think... 'I was asleep. - Rebecca Hurley
I appreciate my my sleep In sleep my conversation is witty My home is dusted My office work is up to date The dog is even well behaved And food is on the table on timeBut then when I'm asleep I don't have you to clutter and confuseMy hungry heart - Nikki Giovanni
This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident. - Martin Luther
She wakes in a puddle of sunlight.Her hands asleep beside her.Her hair draped on the lawnlike a mantle of cloth.I give her my trothfor our love is whole;her breath is my wine,her scent is my soul. - Roman Payne
I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God. - Thomas Babington Macaulay
Another thing I need to do, when I'm near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it...Somehow the book doesn't leave you when you're asleep right next to it. - Joan Didion
While the whole world was asleep, the caterpillar was awake, working towards becoming a butterfly. - Matshona Dhliwayo
I don't really like coffee, she said, but I don't really like it when my head hits my desk when I fall asleep either. - Brian Andreas
You're just another american who is willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick being shoved up your asshole every day... The owners of this country know the truth... it's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it! - George Carlin
But aside from a few migraines, you can't possibly imagine any OBEY drawbacks that CEASE REPRODUCTION could come with SUBMIT merging CONSUME your thoughts with EMBRACE YOUR CULLING experimental technology CONFORM TO SOCIAL ORDER from an STAY ASLEEP extremely powerful DIE corporation, wait what? - Andrew Hussie
One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
I hate it when my foot falls asleep during the day because that means it's going to be up all night. - Steven Wright
In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die. - William Shakespeare
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. - Dr. Seuss
It all comes down to that one person you always think about before you fall asleep at night. And text "Good Morning" as soon as you wake up. - Jonathan Anthony Burkett
We fall asleep to fairy tales, and the world rotates and revolves and time passes and we grow up and we understand that they are false. There are not heroes and princesses and villains. It's not that easy. - Amy Zhang
Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day. - Anonymous
You fell asleep and a monster crawled from out of my head and found its way under my bed - Yesenia Barkley
Today, I went to sleep under a plum tree. There, I dreamed I was a butterfly, flying so pleasently. Then, I fell asleep, and the dream ended. Now- I have to ask myself - am I Zhuang Zi who dreamed of a butterfly? Or am I that butterfly, dreaming I am Zhuang Zi? - Zhuangzi
Other men are unaware of what they do when they are awake just as they are forgetful of what they do when they are asleep. - Heraclitus
The stars do not shine but in the darkness; they reveal their glory only when man is asleep and not watching. This is one of life’s deepest secrets. - Frank F. Gelat
Was I asleep? Had I slept? - Samuel Beckett
Not every thought is a flower; some are thorns. But while a flower may make you fall asleep and too see dreams, a thorn will wake you up and make you to think! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself. - Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
WHILE THE WORLD'S ASLEEP, ANGELS REFUSE TO SLEEP! - Widad Akreyi
The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep. - Idries Shah
I fall asleep with the sound of rain; I wake up with the songs of the wind. - Debasish Mridha
Sometimes I work so long and so hard that I have no idea what day or time it is. I forget to eat. I don't get ready for the day. I fall asleep on the couch and wake up and get back to work. - Richie Norton
How could I fall asleep, when I love the pleasure of reading and writing at night? - Lailah Gifty Akita
Before a marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you`ve said; after marriage, he`ll fall asleep before you finish saying it. - Helen Rowland
You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. - Karsten Andersen
Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone who wakes up, or who, still asleep, realizes that what is taken to be real is a ‘dream’ is going crazy. - R.D. Laing
long ago said, 'who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.' I nominated myself as an 'infidel' as a challenge to thought for those who are asleep. Luther Burbank - Euripides
The paradoxical situation with a vast number of people today is that they are half asleep when awake, and half awake when asleep, or when they want to sleep. - Erich Fromm
One day you will just wake up and you will do not want to remember that it was a real fact, what has happened before you fell asleep. - Pēteris Bitāns
I didn't cry when they buried my father - I wouldn't let myself. I didn't cry when they buried my sister. On Thursday night, with my family asleep upstairs, my eyes filled as Agassi and Marcos Baghdatis played out the fifth set of their moving second-round match. - Greg Garber
When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake. - P.D. Ouspensky
Man with right thinking is awake and can see everything; man with wrong thinking is asleep and can see nothing! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes, all you can dois lie in bed,and hope to fall asleep beforeyou fall apart. - William C. Hannan
I wish I could fall asleep. But with a good book in my hands, I stay awake to finish reading. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I had a dream I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep. - Stan Laurel
What has to do with your ability to fall asleep is not caffeine. It’s having a clean conscience. I have a clean conscience so I can drink all the caffeine I want. - Bob Barr
My friend says she's smart. She reads a book to fall asleep. - Nicholaa Spencer
A dream is not what you see when you sleep. It is what keeps you from falling asleep. - A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Just as good and virtue, sin and evil can only be given in vigil. Who sleeps, sleeps; for the asleep there is no sin, just as there is no good, nor virtue. There is only sleep. - Judas Iscariot The Flight of the Feathered Serpent
When I, awoke, they called me crazy; But only those, whom were still asleep. - Nikki Rowe
Some ages are lukewarm and complacent, and then it is our business to soothe them yet faster asleep. Other ages, of which the present is one, are unbalanced and prone to faction, and it is our business to inflame them. - C.S. Lewis
That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it. - George Carlin
We learn more when we hate than when we love, because hate is eternally awake, but love is everlastingly asleep. - Mehmet Murat ildan
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed. - Baltasar Gracian
In the still of the night, when you are serenely falling asleep and an epiphany suddenly hits you. Roll your ass off that bed and start typing because that fleeting moment will never pass by you again...You can sleep when your dead!!! - Racheal Lachman
Islam is not the greatest threat facing Christianity in the west. The biggest threat facing Christianity in the west is Scripture illiterate believers who are asleep while a world waits to here the Gospel... - Pastor Steve Bainbridge
The moon has a face like the clock in the hall;She shines on thieves on the garden wall,On streets and fields and harbour quays,And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees. - Robert Louis Stevenson
Most people are asleep and need to be confronted, like adults that are still behaving like they're 5 years old, and don't want to assume responsibility for their mistakes. - Robin Sacredfire
One day you will just wake up and you will do not want to remember that it was real fact, what has happened before you fell asleep. - Pēteris Bitāns
I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep. - George Best
Some of you say, 'Joy is greater thar sorrow,' and others say, 'Nay, sorrow is the greater.'But I say unto you, they are inseparable.Together they come, and when one sits, alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. - Kahlil Gibran
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