John Donne Quotes About Sleep

Quotes about: Sleep

• Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.

  John Donne

  Integrity, Sleep, Night

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.218

• One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

  John Donne

  Death, Sleep, Past

  Holy Sonnets no. 6 (1609)

• Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfil
  All offices of death, except to kill.

  John Donne

  Pain, Sleep, Office

  "John Donne: The Major Works".

• From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.

  John Donne

  Sleep, Men, Soul

  c.1610-1615 Holy Sonnets, no.10.

• But think that we Are but turned aside to sleep.

  John Donne

  Sleep, Thinking

  John Donne (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.8, Courier Corporation

• Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms, can make us sleep as well, And better than thy stroke. Why swell'st thou then?

  John Donne

  Art, Kings, War

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.448

• Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.

  John Donne

  Sleep, Calling, May

• Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.

  John Donne

  Life, Sleep, Men

• Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is.

  John Donne

  Running, Sleep, Doubt

  John Donne (1993). “Selected Poems”, p.47, Courier Corporation

• Sleep is pain's easiest salve

  John Donne

  Pain, Sleep

  John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.51, Oxford University Press, USA

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