Sleep Quotes
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
Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.Doctor Who
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
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.Baltasar Gracian
Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.Thomas Dekke
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
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
Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being and only suffering teaches him this.Simone Weil
It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake.Mark Twain
There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.Homer, The Iliad
I have lived, tomorrow, I shall sleep in glory.Georges Jacques Danton
Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.Italian Prove
Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.Edgar Allan Poe
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.Author Unknown
Oh sleep It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
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
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.John Milton
Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever.Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia - Denouncing the evils of slavery
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.Heinrich Heine
Real programmers are those that can sleep in front of terminals... with their eyes opened.RicS
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
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.Jessamyn West
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
People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell
When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air.Sir John Lubbock
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
Sleep is an eight - Hour peep show of infantile erotica.J. G. Ballard
One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.Sterne
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
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
There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love
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
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
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
