Sleep Quotes
History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins.Arnold J. Toynbee
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
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
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
Death is a veil which those who live call life, Sleep and it is lifted.Percy B. Shelley
One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.Sterne
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
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
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
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.Jessamyn West
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
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
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
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
Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Oh sleep It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.Unknown
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
The net of the sleeper catches fish.Greek Prove
Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.Edgar Allan Poe
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
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 fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.Heinrich Heine
If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night.Dicky Barrett
