Sleep Quotes

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

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

English Prove

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

Edmund Spenser, 1590

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

Albert Camus

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

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

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

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.

D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love

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 by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Doctor Who

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

I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy.

Frank Zappa

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

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.

Joan Klempne

Jerry I will not rest until I have you holding a Coke, wearing your own shoe, playing a Sega game *featuring you*, while singing your own song in a new commercial, *starring you*, broadcast during the Superbowl, in a game that you are winning, and I will not *sleep* until that happens.

Jerry Maguire

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

Anthony Burgess

Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....

Longfellow

Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.

Thomas Dekke

Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even - Tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. On relations with the US.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau