Sleep Quotes
Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.Erich Fromm
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
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
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 only thing that comes to a sleeping man are dreams.Tupac Amaru Shaku
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.Edmund Spenser, 1590
Decency... must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.Quentin Crisp
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.Albert Camus
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
Death is a veil which those who live call life, Sleep and it is lifted.Percy B. Shelley
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
so convincing were those dreams of being awake that he woke from them in a state of complete exhaustion, and had to go straight back to sleep again.Joseph Heller, Catch 22
The only thing that comes from a sleeping man are dreams.Tupac Amaru Shaku
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell, (attributed)
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
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
If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.John McCrae, "In Flanders Fields".
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
In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.Luigi Pirandello
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
To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.Joan Klempne
If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.John McCrae
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 1
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
Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.Yiddish Prove
I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy.Frank Zappa
Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.Edgar Allan Poe
I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.Rabbi Harold Kushne
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
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
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
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.Unknown
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.Homer, The Odyssey
If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night.Dicky Barrett
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
The net of the sleeper catches fish.Greek Prove
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
