Sleep Quotes

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

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

Frank Herbert

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

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

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Edgar Allan Poe

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 the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish.

English Prove

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

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

George Orwell, (attributed)

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

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Homer, The Odyssey

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

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

Luigi Pirandello

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

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

Mark Twain

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

RicS

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

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleepAnd miles to go before I sleep.

Robert Frost

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.

John Milton

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

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

Mark Twain

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

Erich Fromm

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

Leonardo Da Vinci

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

Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh

The net of the sleeper catches fish.

Greek Prove

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

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

Tupac Amaru Shaku

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

Evan Davis

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

Heinrich Heine

At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.

Martin Luthe

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

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.

Joan Klempne

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

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