Sleep Quotes

The only thing that comes from a sleeping man are dreams.

Tupac Amaru Shaku

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

Homer, The Odyssey

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

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

Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.

Doctor Who

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

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

George Gordon Byron

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

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

My girlfriend sleeps in a queen - Sized bed and I sleep in a court jester - Sized bed.

Steven Wright, I Have a Pony

Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.

Edgar Allan Poe

Sleep is an eight - Hour peep show of infantile erotica.

J. G. Ballard

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

Unknown

The net of the sleeper catches fish.

Greek Prove

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

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

Mark Twain

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Home

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

Edmund Spenser, 1590

When action grows unprofitable, gather information when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

Ursula K. LeGuin

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

Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.

Erich Fromm

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

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

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

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

Heinrich Heine

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

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