Samuel Johnson Quotes

The time of night when you sleep makes a significant difference in terms of the structure and quality of your sleep.

The English expression 'to fall asleep' is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state of being into another: a giving up of full self-consciousness for unconsciousness or for the altered consciousness of dreams.

I'm a very good sleeper.

It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.

It's really fascinating stuff, the science of sleep. We don't think of it in terms of that, but it really is.

Sleep comes more easily than it returns.

Do you ever rub your eyes and suddenly find you're awake and not asleep, as you'd grown to suspect you were?

Sleep is such a potent, liminal state, and I don't want to drag anything in there that doesn't need to be there.

Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.

You don't get nothing from sleep but a dream.

We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.

Time, motion and wine cause sleep.

Nobody knows what either sleep or waking consciousness is, even though these two have long been seen as the two sides of being: part of life's unvarying diurnal rhythm.

It's strange, when you think about it, that we spend close to a third of our lives asleep. Why do we do it? While we're sleeping, we're vulnerable - and, at least on the outside, supremely unproductive.

Part of how easily we go to sleep is genetic: many sleep disturbances, ranging from insomnia to circadian disruption, have a large genetic component.

I try to get eight or nine hours of sleep a night, and if I don't, I'll make sure to take a nap.

If sleep does not provide a remarkable set of benefits, then it's the biggest mistake the evolutionary process has ever made.

Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.

You lack the season of all natures, sleep.

I can go round the clock without sleep.

Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as legislature.... So people who go to bed to sleep Must count French premiers or sheep, And people who ought to arise from bed Yawn and go back to sleep instead.

Human beings generally need between six and eight hours of restful sleep each night. Restful sleep means that you're not using pharmaceuticals or alcohol to get to sleep, but that you're drifting off easily once you turn off the light and are sleeping soundly through the night.

Sleeping people are so remote.... Right here, but out of communication. That's what strikes humans as uncanny about sleep. Its utter privacy. The sleeper turns his back on everyone.

O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse.

I'm a shockingly bad sleeper. In bed very late. Awake at the crack of dawn.