Macbeth Sleep Quotes

• Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more!
  Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep,
  Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care,
  The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,
  Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
  Chief nourisher in life's feast...

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Sleep, Insomnia

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 36

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• What's done cannot be undone.
  To bed, to bed, to bed.

  William Shakespeare

  Bed, Done, Undone

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [74]

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• You lack the season of all natures, sleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Insomnia, Macbeth Theme

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 141

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• Still it cried ‘Sleep no more!’ to all the house: ‘Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more,—Macbeth shall sleep no more!

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, House, Murder

  1606 Macbeth. Macbeth, act 2, sc.2, l.39-41.

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• Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.

  William Shakespeare

  Secret, Mind, Deeds

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [78]

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• Better be with the dead,
  Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace,
  Than on the torture of the mind to lie
  In restless ecstasy.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Anxiety, Mind

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 11

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• Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures: ‘tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Eye, Giving

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 52

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• After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Prayer, Sleep

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 11

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• Sleep knits up the raveled sleeve of care.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Care, Sleeves

  William Shakespeare (1998). “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, p.127, Oxford University Press, USA

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• But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer,
  Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep
  In the affliction of these terrible dreams
  That shake us nightly.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Fear, Sleep

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 11

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• A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching!

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Benefits, Macbeth Motif

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Macbeth: Third Series”, p.271, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.

  William Shakespeare

  Cheer, Night, Long

  1606 Malcolm. Macbeth, act 4, sc.3, l.242.

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• The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Sleep, Insomnia, Trying

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• Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles.

  William Shakespeare

  Deeds, Trouble, Unnatural

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [78]

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• There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out.

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Important Macbeth, Darkness In Macbeth

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 1, l. 4

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• O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.

  Thomas Hood

  Sleep, Insomnia, Heaven

  Thomas Hood (1860). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood”, p.229

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• It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

  John Steinbeck

  Life, Good Morning, Adversity

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.180, Penguin

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• Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Sleep, Insomnia

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.64, Lulu Press, Inc

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• 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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• A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Dream, Sleep, Insomnia

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “The Professor: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.32, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Blood, Hands

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [38]

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• Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity,
  Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify,
  Weary bodies refresh and mollify.

  Ovid

  Sleep, Insomnia, Soul

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• Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky!

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Hands, Two

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [38]

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• All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh!

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Lady Macbeth, Guilt

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [55]

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• I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.

  William Shakespeare

  Blood, Lady Macbeth, Guilt

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 136

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