Sometimes sleep gets to be a serious and complete thing. You stop going to sleep in order that you may be able to get up, but get up in order that you may be able to go back to sleep.

Robert Penn Warren
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  1. ...the souls of none of them were dead, but only sleeping; now and then they would waken, and these were cruel times. - Anonymous

  2. Sleep, where in the waste is the wisdom? - James Joyce

  3. If you can't turn off your thoughts, who cares how soft your pillow is?"- David King - Robert Liparulo

  4. But lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that. - E.L. Konigsburg

  5. I felt myself falling asleep; my eyes were closing, and then I thought, Maybe I should just kill myself. Suicidal thoughts always sneak up on me like that. But I don’t mind them. They’re like aspirin. They calm me down. - Jonathan Ames

More Quotes By Robert Penn Warren
  1. Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something( All The King's Men)

  2. Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.

  3. The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.

  4. BeautyIs the fume-track of necessity. This thought Is therapeutic. If, after several Applications, you do not find Relief, consult your family physician

  5. And the testicles of the fathers hang down like old lace

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