Sleep Quotes
People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell
Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.Thomas Dekke
Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even - Tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. On relations with the US.Pierre Elliott Trudeau
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
In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish.English Prove
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.Heinrich Heine
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
If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night.Dicky Barrett
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
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 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
As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
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 fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.Heinrich Heine
Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.Edgar Allan Poe
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.Frank Herbert
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
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
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
A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.Author Unknown
Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.Edgar Allan Poe
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
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
There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.Albert Camus
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
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.Mark Twain
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
No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town, 2005
Oh sleep It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.William Penn
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
Sleep is an eight - Hour peep show of infantile erotica.J. G. Ballard
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.William Penn
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
Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.Anonymous
