Good Sleep Quotes

• For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Sleep, Depth, Needs

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1963). “NORTH TO THE ORIENT”

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• And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Peace, Morning, Flower

  "Shadows" l. 1 (1932)

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• Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... Without the satisfaction.

  Lynn Johnston

  Sleep, Night, Insomnia

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• All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

  Plutarch

  Dream, Sleep, Insomnia

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch. "Of Superstition",

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• Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Good Night, Dream, Art

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.92, Penguin

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• Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.

  Ellen Goodman

  Good Morning, Sleep, Insomnia

  Ellen Goodman (1986). “Close to Home”, Fawcett Books

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• Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sleep, Eye, Night

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.471, Library of America

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• What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Sleep, Mystery, Probing

  THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH (1877). “FLOWER AND THORN”

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• The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

  Ogden Nash

  Morning, Regret, Sleep

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• Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Good Night, Lying, Anger

  "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater". Book by Thomas De Quincey, 1821.

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• 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

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• Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Sleep, Men, Eight

  "The Mind-Blowing Science Of Sleep" by Farnam Street, www.businessinsider.com.au. November 20, 2013.

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• Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Regret, Sleep, Insomnia

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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• Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

  Anthony Burgess

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Anthony Burgess (1986). “Homage to QWERT YUIOP: essays”, Vintage

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• Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

  Albert Camus

  Sleep, Insomnia, People

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• Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

  Bill Cosby

  Fake People, Sleep, Eye

  Twitter post from Nov 05, 2009

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• Better to get up late and be wide awake then, than to get up early and be asleep all day.

  Matthew Henry

  Sleep, Up Early, Get Up

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• Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.

  Ingvar Kamprad

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Mistake

  "The Testament of a Furniture Dealer". Book by Ingvar Kamprad, 1976.

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• Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

  Walt Whitman

  Nature, Sleep, Air

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Good Night, Dream

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 4, sc. 1, l. 148

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

  William Penn

  Easter, Being Alone, Health

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.448

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• Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.

  William Golding

  Dream, Sleep, Insomnia

  1956 Pincher Martin, ch.6.

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• There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep.

  E. W. Howe

  Good Night, Sleep, People

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• Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.

  Homer

  Sleep, Too Much, Concerned

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• There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons.

  Henry Channon

  Sleep, Insomnia, House

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