Sleep Quotes

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

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

Ursula K. LeGuin

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

Tupac Amaru Shaku

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

Frank Herbert

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

Percy B. Shelley

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

George Gordon Byron

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

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

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

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

And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into glory peep.

Henry Vaughn

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

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.

Theodore Roethke

Oh sleep It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Homer, The Iliad

Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.

Doctor Who

It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake.

Mark Twain

If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

John McCrae, "In Flanders Fields".

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

I have lived, tomorrow, I shall sleep in glory.

Georges Jacques Danton

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

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

Homer, The Odyssey

Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.

Unknown

If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

John McCrae