Sleep Quotes
Sleep is an eight - Hour peep show of infantile erotica.J. G. Ballard
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
Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.Evan Davis
Why does no one confess his sins Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.Baltasar Gracian
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
Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.Erich Fromm
A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.Author Unknown
No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town, 2005
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 a life well used brings a happy death.Leonardo Da Vinci
There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love
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 good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.Woody Allen
As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
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
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
Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.Italian Prove
Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.George Carlin
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 net of the sleeper catches fish.Greek Prove
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.Heinrich Heine
Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.Edgar Allan Poe
Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.John Donne
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
For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity.Marcus Tullius Cicero
A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.Homer, The Iliad
I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy.Frank Zappa
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
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
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.Edmund Spenser, 1590
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.Ralph Waldo Emerson
In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.Luigi Pirandello
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.Albert Camus
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.Jessamyn West
California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)
