William Golding Quotes

What is it like to fall asleep? What happens? Where do we go? Why don't we remember? Since childhood most of us have wondered about the mystery of sleep.

The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the 'I,' under another form, continues the task of existence.

In sleep, we leave behind the sensory stimulation of the outside world.

While sleep is clearly vital to emotional well-being, what is it, exactly, about sleep that is so necessary? As it turns out, mood disorders are strongly linked to abnormal patterns of dreaming.

Sleep is your friend. Dreams are your unwelcome guests.

I'm missing something when I'm sleeping.

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

Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers.

The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

Dreams are the guardians of sleep and not its disturbers.

Sleep comes more easily than it returns.

I do all kind of fun things when I'm unconscious.

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

Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied with intervals of insensibility; and some late philosophers have extended the empire of sleep over the vegetable world.

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

Weren't we all crazy in our sleep? What was sleep, after all, but the process by which we dumped our insanity into a dark subconscious pit and came out on the other side ready to eat cereal instead of our neighbor's children?

I am convinced that during bouts of insomnia, I have sometimes slept without knowing it.

Sleep is huge. That's your biggest way of recovering. In baseball, it's such a hard sleep schedule during the season, but you try to do the best you can. Because you can take all the protein drinks, you can do all these things, but your recovery is your sleep.

Sleep is the real beauty secret, but I don't get enough of that.

Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better.