Sleep Quotes

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

Leonardo Da Vinci

The net of the sleeper catches fish.

Greek Prove

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

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

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

Edgar Allan Poe

At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.

Martin Luthe

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

Longfellow

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

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road

My girlfriend sleeps in a queen - Sized bed and I sleep in a court jester - Sized bed.

Steven Wright, I Have a Pony

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

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

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

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Frank Herbert

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success.... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Nikola Tesla

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 1

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

A dying man needs to dye, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless to resist.

Steward Alsop

If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

John McCrae

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

Georges Jacques Danton

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

Tupac Amaru Shaku

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

Thomas Dekke

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

George Orwell, (attributed)

Decency... must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

Quentin Crisp

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

Albert Camus

If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night.

Dicky Barrett

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

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

Anthony Burgess

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

Ursula K. LeGuin

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

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

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

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

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

True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn