Sleep Quotes

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Edgar Allan Poe

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

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

Edgar Allan Poe

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

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

Unknown

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

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

Mark Twain

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

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

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

Anthony Burgess

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

Erich Fromm

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

RicS

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

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

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

Tupac Amaru Shaku

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

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

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

Percy B. Shelley

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

Georges Jacques Danton

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

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

Heinrich Heine

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

Ursula K. LeGuin

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

Sterne