Maurice Blanchot Quotes

I'm a very good sleeper.

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

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.

All men are alike when asleep.

You lack the season of all natures, 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.

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?

When we are asleep, we are all equal.

When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body and the illusion of existence. Why have men spent the centuries seeking to overcome the awakened body? Put it to sleep, that is a better way. Let it serve only to turn the sleeping soul over, to change the blood-stream and thus make possible a deeper and more refined sleep.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.

Sleeping is not something I do a lot of.

I like to sleep a lot. I mean I really like to sleep.

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.

We tend to think that when we're awake, we're on, and when we're sleeping our mind is off, but actually, we're not off. There's a lot going on!