Saul Bellow Quotes

I'm a very good sleeper.

I don't sleep all that much, but when I do, it's sound.

Sleeping comes easy to me. As soon as I lay my head down, I fall asleep like flicking a switch.

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.

The poor sleep little.

Other people need a full night's sleep in order to function and be healthy and alert. But I'm different.

Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes.

I'm post-menopausal. I have nothing but time. Post-menopausal do not sleep. You obviously don't know one. We get about three hours of sleep a night and the rest of the time we have to do something productive with our time.

When you force sleep, it doesn't happen.

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I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.

I've dreamed a lot, but i'm not a very good sleeper.

A lack of restful sleep disrupts the body's innate balance, weakens our immune system, and speeds up the aging process.

The hard part for me is rest. I am a person who stays up late. If I go to bed early, I don't sleep, but I know I have to rest. That is always a struggle for me.

Sleep and I do not have a good relationship. We have never been good friends. I am constantly chasing sleep and then pushing it away. A good night's sleep is my white whale. Like Ahab, I am also a total drama queen about it. I love to talk about how little sleep I get. I brag about it, as if it is a true indication of how hard I work.

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

Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself.

Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!

Honestly, I don't remember the last time I had a dream. I don't really sleep often enough to be able to have any dreams.

I love to sleep. I'm an excellent, excellent sleeper.

I'm someone who needs more sleep than average, and I'm quite jealous of people who need only five or six hours and they're good to go.

I usually sleep just a few hours a night.

Sleep is getting to be like gold.

I'm like a three-and-a-half, four-hour-a-night sleeper. It's not enough to function.

For some people, what really matters to them is sleep.