Sleep Quotes
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.Albert Camus
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
Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even - Tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. On relations with the US.Pierre Elliott Trudeau
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.Henry Ward Beeche
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.Frank Herbert
Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.Kahlil Gibran, Essay on Robert Frost, quoted in N. Y.. Times: Obit - Editorial, April 1982
I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy.Frank Zappa
Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....Longfellow
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.Baltasar Gracian
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
Sleep is an eight - Hour peep show of infantile erotica.J. G. Ballard
True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.William Penn
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
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell, (attributed)
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.Mark Twain
Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass. The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes are the men who sleep at Greenwood.H. L. Wayland
When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - Say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - It is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them...Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.Edgar Allan Poe
In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish.English Prove
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.William Penn
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
Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.Anonymous
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.Anthony Burgess
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
It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in.Oliver Wendell Holmes
In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.Luigi Pirandello
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
Oh sleep It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love
The net of the sleeper catches fish.Greek Prove
A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.Author Unknown
As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.Leonardo Da Vinci
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)
People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell
As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
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
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