Sleep Quotes

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

No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.

Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town, 2005

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

The net of the sleeper catches fish.

Greek Prove

There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.

D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love

Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.

Thomas Dekke

I know a mother - In - Law who sleeps with her glasses on, the better to see her son - In - Law suffer in her dreams.

Ernest Coquelin

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.

Theodore Roethke

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

Jessamyn West

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

Edmund Spenser, 1590

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

George Orwell

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Anatole France, The Red Lily, 1894, chapter 7

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

Baltasar Gracian

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

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

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Clive Staples Lewis

Real programmers are those that can sleep in front of terminals... with their eyes opened.

RicS

As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

Mark Twain

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.

Baltasar Gracian

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.

Home

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleepAnd miles to go before I sleep.

Robert Frost

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

Heinrich Heine

If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

John McCrae, "In Flanders Fields".

Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....

Longfellow

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

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.

Isoroku Yamamoto, After Pearl Harbor, Japanese Admiral

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.

Mary Stewart

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

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success.... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Nikola Tesla

Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.

Unknown

Death is a veil which those who live call life, Sleep and it is lifted.

Percy B. Shelley

Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 1

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

Sterne