„I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity“

„I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.“

—  Jean Paul Sartre, kniha Nausea

Zdroj: Nausea

„Sleep is still difficult I sleep for three or four hours a day. Usually sometime in the afternoon. I walk in the cold, keep myself numb. I cry less, and less." (James Frey, pg.88)“

—  James Frey, My Friend Leonard

Zdroj: My Friend Leonard

„There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.“

—  Isaac Asimov American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction and popular … 1920 - 1992

„Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep.“

—  Haruki Murakami, kniha Konec světa & Hard-boiled Wonderland

Zdroj: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), Chapter Thirteen: Frankfurt, Door, Independent Operants

„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 classic Chinese philosopher -369 - -286 př. n. l.

„I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.“

—  Anton Chekhov Russian dramatist, author and physician 1860 - 1904

Letter to A.S. Suvorin (December 9, 1890)
Letters

„Last night I saw you in my dreams/Now I can't wait to go to sleep/And this life is all a dream/So my real life starts when I go to sleep.“

—  Канье Уэст American rapper, singer and songwriter 1977

"Hey Mama", Live Grammy Performance, February 2008
Lyrics, 808s & Heartbreak (2008)

„Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.“

—  Arthur Rimbaud French Decadent and Symbolist poet 1854 - 1891

Zdroj: Une saison en enfer; Illuminations; et autres textes

„Death is an eternal sleep.“

—  Joseph Fouché French statesman 1759 - 1820

Inscription placed by his orders on the Gates of the Cemeteries in 1794; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

„Yes, what I am to be everlastingly, I am growing to be now — now in this present time so little thought of, this time which the sun rises and sets in, and the clock strikes in, and I wake and sleep in.“

—  William Mountford English Unitarian preacher and author 1816 - 1885

Zdroj: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 210.

„Death is not "an eternal sleep!"“

—  Maximilien Robespierre French revolutionary lawyer and politician 1758 - 1794

Citizens! efface from the tomb that motto, graven by sacrilegious hands, which spreads over all nature a funereal crape, takes from oppressed innocence its support, and affronts the beneficent dispensation of death! Inscribe rather thereon these words: "Death is the commencement of immortality!"
Zdroj: Last speech to the National Convention http://www.bartleby.com/268/7/24.html (26 July 1794)

„If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.“

—  Nikos Kazantzakis, kniha Zorba the Greek

Zdroj: Zorba the Greek

„Fair friend, in singing I call you:
Sleep no longer, for I hear the bird sing
Who goes seeking day through the wood
And I fear that the jealous one will attack you,
And soon it will be dawn!“

—  Giraut de Bornelh French writer 1138 - 1220

Bel companho, en chantan vos apel!
No dormatz plus, qu'eu auch chantar l'auzel
Que vai queren lo jorn per lo boschatge
Et ai paor que.l gilos vos assatge
Et ades sera l'alba.
"Reis glorios", line 11; translation from Gale Sigal Erotic Dawn-Songs of the Middle Ages (1996) p. 148.
Originál: (ca) Bel companho, en chantan vos apel!<br/>No dormatz plus, qu'eu auch chantar l'auzel<br/>Que vai queren lo jorn per lo boschatge<br/>Et ai paor que.l gilos vos assatge<br/>Et ades sera l'alba.

„When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream.“

—  Gertrude Stein American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays 1874 - 1946

Before the Flowers of Friendship Faded Friendship Faded (1931)

„I have to dedicate myself. Do you understand? I don't feel conflict in myself because if I do, my work doesn't go well. If there's conflict I have to sit down or go to sleep to solve it. And the only way to solve the problem is to produce really affirmative work which can only come – I can't make it come. I can't conjure it up. I can only go to sleep and hope it happens... You have to digest it and if you digest you can contribute.“

—  Barbara Hepworth English sculptor 1903 - 1975

Zdroj: 1961 - 1975, Art Talk, conversations with 15 woman artists', (1975), p. 15

„I usually take no notice of reviews unless a critic has thought up some new way of describing me. That old one about the way I sleep my way through pictures is so hackneyed now.“

—  Robert Mitchum American film actor, author, composer and singer 1917 - 1997

As quoted in "Kate and Deborah Disagree" https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SBS19821031.1.97&srpos=1&e=31-10-1982-31-10-1982--en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22I+usually+take+no+notice+of+reviews%22-------1

„Oh, I am not quite sleeping.
Oh, I am fast in bed.“

—  Sufjan Stevens American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist 1975

Lyrics, Illinois (2005)

„It is only when we speak what is right that we stand a chance at night of being blown to bits in our homes. Can we call this a free country, when I am afraid to go to sleep in my own home in Mississippi?… I might not live two hours after I get back home, but I want to be a part of setting the Negro free in Mississippi.“

—  Fannie Lou Hamer American civil rights activist (October 6, 1917 – March 14, 1977) 1917 - 1977

As quoted in This Little Light of Mine, ch. 8, by Hay Mills (1993). Said on September 13, 1965, in a hearing before the United States House of Representatives' Subcommittee on Elections.

„I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.“

—  Sylvia Plath American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932 - 1963

Zdroj: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath