Sleep Quotes
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.Aeschylus
To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.Joan Klempne
Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.Doctor Who
Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.Evan Davis
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
A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.Author Unknown
One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.Sterne
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.Home
If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.John McCrae
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
If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night.Dicky Barrett
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
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
I have lived, tomorrow, I shall sleep in glory.Georges Jacques Danton
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
Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.Italian Prove
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
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
It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake.Mark Twain
I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.Isoroku Yamamoto, After Pearl Harbor, Japanese Admiral
When action grows unprofitable, gather information when information grows unprofitable, sleep.Ursula K. LeGuin
There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.Homer, The Iliad
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love
Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....Longfellow
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.John Milton
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
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 only thing that comes from a sleeping man are dreams.Tupac Amaru Shaku
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.Jessamyn West
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
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
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.Anthony Burgess
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins.Arnold J. Toynbee
True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.William Penn
A dying man needs to dye, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless to resist.Steward Alsop
