Lord Byron Quotes About Sleep

Quotes about: Sleep

• It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

  Lord Byron

  Believe, Sleep, Men

• On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet

  Lord Byron

  Life, Success, Dance

  George Gordon Byron, “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt. Canto Iii.”

• Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight.

  Lord Byron

  Sleep, Dying, Going To Sleep

• A sleep without dreams, after a rough day of toil, is what we covet most; and yet
  How clay shrinks back from more quiescent clay!
  The very Suicide that pays his debt at once without installments
  (an old way of paying debts, which creditors regret)
  Lets out impatiently his rushing breath, less from disgust of life than dread of death.

  Lord Byron

  Suicide, Dream, Regret

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.324, Simon and Schuster

• This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society; the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, dispute and pun, the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description.

  Lord Byron

  Sleep, College, Devil

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2475, Delphi Classics

• Our life is two fold Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence Sleep hath its own world, And a wide realm of wild reality.

  Lord Byron

  Sleep, Reality, Two

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.502, Delphi Classics

• Sleep hath its own world, and the wide realm of wild reality.

  Lord Byron

  Sleep, Reality, World

  George Gordon Byron, “The Dream”

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

  Lord Byron

  Death, Sleep, Men

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.23, Gerald Duckworth & Co

• My slumbers--if I slumber--are not sleep, But a continuance of enduring thought, Which then I can resist not: in my heart There is a vigil, and these eyes but close To look within; and yet I live, and bear The aspect and the form of breathing men.

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Sleep, Eye

  Lord Byron (2014). “Manfred”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

• All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.

  Lord Byron

  Sleep, Silence, Heaven

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.76, Sheba Blake Publishing

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