Sleep Quotes

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

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.

John Milton

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

Italian Prove

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

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

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

Unknown

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

RicS

In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish.

English Prove

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.

Mary Stewart

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

William Penn

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

I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy.

Frank Zappa

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

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

George Orwell

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

George Gordon Byron

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

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

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

Sterne

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

Percy B. Shelley

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

John McCrae, "In Flanders Fields".

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

Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.

Doctor Who