Sleep Quotes

Anonymous - better to get up late and be wide awake than to...
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
Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.
Evan Davis
Mary stewart - i reached for sleep and drew it round me like a...
A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.
Author Unknown
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.
John Milton
Clive staples lewis - a man who is eating or lying with his wife or...
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
The only thing that comes to a sleeping man are dreams.
Tupac Amaru Shaku
California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.
William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)
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
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
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
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
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
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
Real programmers are those that can sleep in front of terminals... with their eyes opened.
RicS
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
Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
Thomas Dekke
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
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
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
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
George Gordon Byron
It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake.
Mark Twain
There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.
D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love
Meditation is not for him who eats too much, nor for him who eats not at all not for him who is over much addicted to sleep, nor for him who is always awake.
Bhagavad Gita
No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.
Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town, 2005