Sleep Quotes

Mark twain - it has always been my rule never to smoke when...
I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
Rabbi Harold Kushne
Theodore roethke - i wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. i feel...
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.
Woody Allen
Luigi pirandello - in bed my real love has always been the sleep...
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
Heinrich Heine
Meditation is not for him who eats too much, nor for him who eats not at all not for him who is over much addicted to sleep, nor for him who is always awake.
Bhagavad Gita
As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
Heinrich Heine
My girlfriend sleeps in a queen - Sized bed and I sleep in a court jester - Sized bed.
Steven Wright, I Have a Pony
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1850
True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
William Penn
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 1
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
Anthony Burgess
When action grows unprofitable, gather information when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
Ursula K. LeGuin
There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.
Homer, The Iliad
Sleep is an eight - Hour peep show of infantile erotica.
J. G. Ballard
And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into glory peep.
Henry Vaughn
If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.
John McCrae
Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.
Edgar Allan Poe
It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Psalm 1272 Bible
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road
I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy.
Frank Zappa
Oh sleep It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus
Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....
Longfellow
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell, (attributed)
A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.
Author Unknown
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
so convincing were those dreams of being awake that he woke from them in a state of complete exhaustion, and had to go straight back to sleep again.
Joseph Heller, Catch 22
Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.
Edgar Allan Poe
We all dream we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
Erich Fromm
His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story - Telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.
Leonardo Da Vinci
A dying man needs to dye, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless to resist.
Steward Alsop
If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.
John McCrae, "In Flanders Fields".
Jerry I will not rest until I have you holding a Coke, wearing your own shoe, playing a Sega game *featuring you*, while singing your own song in a new commercial, *starring you*, broadcast during the Superbowl, in a game that you are winning, and I will not *sleep* until that happens.
Jerry Maguire
At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.
Martin Luthe