Sleep Quotes

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

Homer, The Iliad

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

Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks

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

I know a mother - In - Law who sleeps with her glasses on, the better to see her son - In - Law suffer in her dreams.

Ernest Coquelin

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

Luigi Pirandello

The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.

Woody Allen

The net of the sleeper catches fish.

Greek Prove

Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.

Anonymous

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

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

John McCrae, "In Flanders Fields".

My girlfriend sleeps in a queen - Sized bed and I sleep in a court jester - Sized bed.

Steven Wright, I Have a Pony

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

Sterne

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

John Milton

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

Heinrich Heine

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

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

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

Mark Twain

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

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

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

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

Arnold J. Toynbee

We all dream we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

Erich Fromm

Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia - Denouncing the evils of slavery

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

If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night.

Dicky Barrett

I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

Rabbi Harold Kushne

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Evan Davis

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

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

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

William Penn

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

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 1

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

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Percy B. Shelley

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

RicS