Sleep Quotes - Page 11

• People say, 'I'm going to sleep now,' as if it were nothing. But it's really a bizarre activity. 'For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I'm going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life.

  George Carlin

  People, Gone, Next

  George Carlin (2007). “The Best of Brain Droppings”, p.33, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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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

  Night, Insomnia, Able

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• We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Good Morning, Time

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Beecher : Christian Philosopher, Pulpit Orator, Patriot and Philantropist: A Volume of Representative Selections from the Sermons, Lectures, Prayers, and Letters of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Good Morning, Death

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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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, Insomnia, Wind

  1956 Pincher Martin, ch.6.

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• For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dream, Afterlife

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.

  Wilson Mizner

  Time, Insomnia, Average

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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, People, One Thing

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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

  Insomnia, Soul, Body

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• Be thy sleep
  Silent as night is, and as deep.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Night, Silent

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.162

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• Sleep, to the homeless thou art home; the friendless find in thee a friend

  Ebenezer Elliott

  Art, Home, Thee

  Ebenezer Elliott (1835). “Kerhonah ; The Vernal Walk ; Win Hill: And Other Poems”, p.77

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• There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

  Edward Lucas

  Insomnia, Naps, Funny Sarcastic

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• We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Happiness, Romantic

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.446, Simon and Schuster

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• When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Spiritual, Reality, Awakening

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• I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.

  Ned Vizzini

  Life, Sad, Depression

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• We have thousands of opportunities every day to be grateful: for having good weather, to have slept well last night, to be able to get up, to be healthy, to have enough to eat. ... There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Life, Positive, Gratitude

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• We are rag dolls made out of many ages and skins, changelings who have slept in wood nests, and hissed in the uncouth guise of waddling amphibians. We have played such roles for infinitely longer ages than we have been human. Our identity is a dream. We are process, not reality.

  Loren Eiseley

  Dream, Reality, Age

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• Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have, so we night as well work with it rather than struggling against it. We might as well make it our friend and teacher rather than our enemy.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Friends, Teacher

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• The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...

  Robert Frost

  Tattoo, Running, Taken

  "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)

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• Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Waking, Trouble, Cures

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

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• Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Death

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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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• Try to live with the same intensity as a child. He doesn't ask for explanations; he dives into each day as if it were a new adventure and, at night, sleeps tired and happy.

  Paulo Coelho

  Children, Tired, Adventure

  Paulo Coelho (2015). “Warrior of the Light -”, p.13, Booklassic

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• When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Beautiful, Simplicity, Solitude

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• The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night.

  Karen White

  Night, Knowing, Answers

  Karen White (2011). “The Beach Trees”, p.107, Penguin

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