Quotes for the Anesthetes
Submitted by pianoshootis on Thu, 02/02/2006 - 12:46
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- "Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
- "It's at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull." -- Brian Aldiss
- "The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- "All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own." -- Plutarch
- "I need my sleep. I make no bones about it. I need eight hours a day, and at least ten at night." -- Bill Hicks
- "Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs." -- Lily Tomlin
- "I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?" -- Ernest Hemingway
- "It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously." -- Jean Cocteau
- "I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting." -- Mark Twain
- "Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep." -- Fran Lebowitz
- "If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time." -- Marcel Proust
- "That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep." -- Aldous Huxley
- "In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death." -- Thomas Wolfe
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Ah, I love Bill Hicks. That brings to mind a scene from Carnal Knowledge, when Jack Nicholson is having a screaming match with his lover. I'm paraphrasing:
- Look at you, you sleep all day. Why do you do that?
- Because I hate my life!
- And what is your life?
- Sleeping all day!
Of course, I think sleeping is about the most comforting and healthy thing I do for myself every day. Beautiful, beautiful sleep.