Sleep Quotes

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

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

Homer, The Odyssey

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.

Yiddish Prove

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.

Joan Klempne

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

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

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

Heinrich Heine

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

Homer, The Iliad

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

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

Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks

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

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

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

D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love

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

Evan Davis

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

Arnold J. Toynbee

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

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

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

A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

Homer, The Iliad

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

Heinrich Heine

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

Anonymous

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.

Home

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

When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air.

Sir John Lubbock

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

Mark Twain

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

Edmund Spenser, 1590

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

Luigi Pirandello

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

Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh

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

Tupac Amaru Shaku