Sleep Quotes

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

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

Leonardo Da Vinci

No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.

Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town, 2005

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

Arnold J. Toynbee

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)

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

Albert Camus

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

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

George Orwell, (attributed)

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

Anonymous

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

Death is a veil which those who live call life, Sleep and it is lifted.

Percy B. Shelley

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

William Penn

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

Frank Herbert

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

Italian Prove

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

Longfellow

There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.

D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love