Sleep Quotes

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

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

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

Heinrich Heine

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

Anthony Burgess

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

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

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

Tupac Amaru Shaku

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

In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish.

English Prove

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

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.

Mary Stewart

Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.

Yiddish 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

If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night.

Dicky Barrett

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

Edgar Allan Poe

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

George Orwell, (attributed)

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.

John Milton

Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.

Anonymous

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

Home

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

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

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

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

Real programmers are those that can sleep in front of terminals... with their eyes opened.

RicS

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

Sterne

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

History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins.

Arnold J. Toynbee

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

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

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

People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

George Orwell

Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....

Longfellow

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

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 1