Sleep Quotes

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

Frank Herbert

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

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

Edgar Allan Poe

There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.

Homer, The Iliad

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

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

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

Leonardo Da Vinci

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

Steven Wright, I Have a Pony

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

William Penn

Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.

Erich Fromm

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

Ursula K. LeGuin

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

Albert Camus

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

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

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

Anonymous

I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy.

Frank Zappa

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

Tupac Amaru Shaku

Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.

John Donne

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.

Joan Klempne

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

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

Luigi Pirandello

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

Arnold J. Toynbee

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

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

Italian Prove