Sleep Quotes

Ralph waldo emerson - finish each day before you begin the next, and...
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
Henry vaughn - and yet, as angels in some brighter dreams call...
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
William Penn
Wolfgang amadeus mozart - when i am, as it were, completely myself,...
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
If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.
John McCrae
Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.
Edgar Allan Poe
The only thing that comes from a sleeping man are dreams.
Tupac Amaru Shaku
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
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
To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.
Joan Klempne
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
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
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
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
My girlfriend sleeps in a queen - Sized bed and I sleep in a court jester - Sized bed.
Steven Wright, I Have a Pony
There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.
D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love
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
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
Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.
Yiddish Prove
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
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
Jessamyn West
Oh sleep It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
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
In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish.
English Prove
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
George Orwell
Death is a veil which those who live call life, Sleep and it is lifted.
Percy B. Shelley
Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
Thomas Dekke
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
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
History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins.
Arnold J. Toynbee
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
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
Homer, The Odyssey
Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.
Anonymous
People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell