Sleep Quotes

• O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse.

  William Shakespeare

  Insomnia, Nurse, Slumber

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 5

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• To the men exposed to his rule Lymond never appeared ill: he was never tired; he was never worried, or pained, or disappointed, or passionately angry. If he rested, he did so alone; if he slept, he took good care to sleep apart. “—I sometimes doubt if he’s human,” said Will, speaking his thought aloud. “It’s probably all done with wheels.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Tired, Men, Doubt

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  Sleep is the best meditation.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wisdom

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  Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

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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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• There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

  Homer

  Inspirational, Good Night, Teenager

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• Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Wise, Money

  Benjamin Franklin (1821). “Essays and Letters”, p.80

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• Sleep is a hint of lovely oblivion.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Lovely, Hints, Oblivion

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.528, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

  Victor Hugo

  Going To Sleep, Awake

  Victor Hugo (1898). “From exile, and after the fall of the Empire”

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• Sleep is like the unicorn - it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any

  Dr. Seuss

  Doubt, Unicorn, Can't Sleep

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• I had a new idea in my head... this time it's just simply my bedroom, only here colour is to do everything, and, giving by its simplification a grander style to things, is to be suggestive here of rest or of sleep in general. In a word, to look at the picture ought to rest the brain or rather the imagination.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Ideas, Giving, Imagination

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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• Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.

  Aldous Huxley

  Blessed, Blessing, Grace

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• A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Dream, Insomnia, Restless Mind

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

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

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Eight, Fool

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

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• The best eraser in the world is a good night's sleep.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Good Night, World, Erasers

  Orlando Aloysius Battista (1981). “Quotoons: a speaker's dictionary”, Perigee

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• A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Motivational, Happy, Death

  Codice Trivulziano 281

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• I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Life, Inspiring

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• A night of sleep is as much preparation for the subsequent day's activity as it is recovery from that of the previous day.

  J. Allan Hobson

  Recovery, Night, Preparation

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• Sleep is the gateway to those nightly visitations of the irrational.

  Gayle Greene

  Gateways, Irrational, Visitation

  Gayle Greene (2009). “Insomniac”, p.39, Univ of California Press

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• Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Wall, Two

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.206, Courier Corporation

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• A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.

  Marcel Proust

  Insomnia, Light, Appreciate

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.2717, Delphi Classics

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

  John Donne

  Pain, Office

  "John Donne: The Major Works".

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• I count it as a certainty that in paradise, everyone naps.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Naps, Paradise, Certainty

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• Sleep! The most beautiful experience in life. Except drink.

  W. C. Fields

  Beautiful, Drinking, Drunkenness

  "Fictional character: Cuthbert J. Twillie". "My Little Chickadee", www.imdb.com. 1940.

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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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