Sleep Quotes

Kahlil gibran, essay on robert frost, quoted in n. y.. times: obit - editorial, april 1982 - yes, there is a nirvanah; it is leading your...
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
Thomas jefferson, notes on the state of virginia - denouncing the evils of slavery - indeed, i tremble for my country when i reflect...
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.
Theodore Roethke
Samuel taylor coleridge - oh sleep it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole...
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)
There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.
Homer, The Iliad
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
Homer, The Odyssey
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
Clive Staples Lewis
Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.
Yiddish Prove
Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Death is a veil which those who live call life, Sleep and it is lifted.
Percy B. Shelley
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
Albert Camus
Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.
Evan Davis
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
My girlfriend sleeps in a queen - Sized bed and I sleep in a court jester - Sized bed.
Steven Wright, I Have a Pony
I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.
Mary Stewart
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
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
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
Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.
Italian Prove
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
Heinrich Heine
No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.
Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town, 2005
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
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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
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
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
William Penn
His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story - Telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.
John Milton
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
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
Heinrich Heine
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
I have lived, tomorrow, I shall sleep in glory.
Georges Jacques Danton
True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
William Penn
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
Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.
Edgar Allan Poe
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
History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins.
Arnold J. Toynbee
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