Sleep Quotes

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

Homer, The Odyssey

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

George Gordon Byron

Meditation is not for him who eats too much, nor for him who eats not at all not for him who is over much addicted to sleep, nor for him who is always awake.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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)

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

Georges Jacques Danton

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Clive Staples Lewis

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road

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

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 an eight - Hour peep show of infantile erotica.

J. G. Ballard

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh

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

Jessamyn West

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

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

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

George Orwell, (attributed)

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

Ursula K. LeGuin

What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.

Yiddish Prove

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

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.

Mary Stewart

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

Erich Fromm

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

Home

Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.

George Carlin

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

Mark Twain

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

Italian Prove

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

Tupac Amaru Shaku

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

Unknown

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

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

George Orwell

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

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

When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - Say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - It is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

Edgar Allan Poe

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

John McCrae