Sleep Quotes

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

Anthony Burgess

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

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

George Gordon Byron

As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Frank Herbert

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

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

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

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

Arnold J. Toynbee

When action grows unprofitable, gather information when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

Ursula K. LeGuin

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

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

Anonymous

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

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

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)

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

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

My girlfriend sleeps in a queen - Sized bed and I sleep in a court jester - Sized bed.

Steven Wright, I Have a Pony

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

Longfellow

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

Home

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

William Penn