Sleep Quotes
In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish.English Prove
Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay.Millard Fuller, founder and president, Habitat for Humanity International
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.Aeschylus
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.William Penn
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
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
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.Heinrich Heine
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell, (attributed)
It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake.Mark Twain
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
Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.Doctor Who
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
If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night.Dicky Barrett
Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.Edgar Allan Poe
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
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
If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.John McCrae
Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.Yiddish Prove
Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.Evan Davis
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.George Gordon Byron
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
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
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
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
His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story - Telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
The only thing that comes to a sleeping man are dreams.Tupac Amaru Shaku
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
A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.Author Unknown
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)
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
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
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
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.Homer, The Odyssey
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
People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.Anthony Burgess
