Miguel de Cervantes Quotes About Sleep

Quotes about: Sleep

• Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Sleep, Waking, Trouble

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1858). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.587

• Blessings on him, who invented sleep.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Sleep, Blessing

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1852). “The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha”

• Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot.Ê It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Wise, Kings, Sleep

• From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Reading, Sleep, Brain

• All I know is that so long I am asleep I am rid of all fears and hopes and toils and glory, and long live the man who invented sleep, the cloak that covers all human thirst.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Sleep, Men, Long

• Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Blessed, Sleep, Men

• Don Quixote followed nature, and being satisfied with his first sleep, did not solicit more. As for Sancho, he never wanted a second, for the first lasted him from night to morning, indicating a sound body and a mind free from care; but his master, being unable to sleep himself awakened him, saying, "I am amazed, Sancho, at the torpor of thy soul; it seems as if thou wert made of marble or brass, insensible of emotion or sentiment!

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Morning, Sleep, Night

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1866). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.681

• Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Sleep, Blessing, Insomnia

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.730, Wordsworth Editions

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