Sleep Quotes

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

Erich Fromm

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

Arnold J. Toynbee

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

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

Home

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

Frank Herbert

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

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

George Orwell

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

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

George Gordon Byron

For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The net of the sleeper catches fish.

Greek Prove

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

Jessamyn West

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

Tupac Amaru Shaku

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

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

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

Edmund Spenser, 1590

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

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

William Penn

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

D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love

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

Real programmers are those that can sleep in front of terminals... with their eyes opened.

RicS

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

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.

Evan Davis

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

Homer, The Odyssey