Sleep Quotes - Page 16

• He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

  William Dean Howells

  Inspirational, Silence, Noise

  William Dean Howells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Dean Howells (Illustrated)”, p.9147, Delphi Classics

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• Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

  Douglas Horton

  Search For Meaning, Dies

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• Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Corn, Diligence, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.249

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• Meditation means: remain as relaxed as you are in deep sleep and yet alert. Keep awareness there; let thoughts disappear but awareness has to be retained. And this is not difficult: it is just that we have not tried it, that's all. It is like swimming: if you have not tried it, it looks very difficult; it looks very dangerous too. And you cannot believe how people can swim because you simply drown! But once you have tried a little bit it comes easily; it is very natural.

  Rajneesh

  Believe, Mean, Swimming

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• Samadhi means when sushupti, dreamless sleep, becomes alert, awake. When you are asleep as far as the body is concerned, you are asleep as far as the mind is concerned, because there is no disturbance of any dream, there is no tension in the body - but beyond the mind, the no-mind is fully alert. He knows that the mind is without any dreams, he sees it, it is without any dreams, he sees it the body is absolutely relaxed. And this seeing, this alertness, continues twenty-four hours. Then sushupti becomes samadhi.

  Rajneesh

  Dream, Mean, Mind

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• This is the sleep: being absent, being not present to the present moment, being somewhere else.

  Rajneesh

  Somewhere Else, Moments, Absent

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• The science of meditation: it brings you to the present, it brings you to this moment. The past is a thought; it disappears when thoughts disappear. The future is also a thought; it disappears when you drop thinking. When you are in a state of no-thought - there is no past, no future, there is only the present - in that state of no-thought you are ONE, in tune with God. And suddenly the flood is there: you are flooded with light, with love, with grace. You are no more a man, you are divine. You have surpassed humanity. Humanity is in a state of deep sleep.

  Rajneesh

  Past, Men, Thinking

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• The relaxation should not be a method. You should not relax through a Yoga posture. This very understanding is relaxing, this very understanding is relaxation. You relax, effort disappears. You live your ordinary life - you chop wood and you carry water from the well and you cook food and you eat and you sleep and you love and you live ordinarily with no hankering and no desire for anything extraordinary.

  Rajneesh

  Yoga, Water, Effort

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• Man ordinarily is a robot. He lives apparently awake, but not really. He walks, he talks, he acts, but it is all as if in sleep - not conscious of what he is doing, not conscious of what he is saying, not conscious of all that surrounds him. He moves surrounded in a dark cloud of unawareness. According to Gautama the Buddha, this is the original sin: to live unconsciously, to act out of unconsciousness. In fact, the word 'sin' comes from a root which means forgetfulness. Sin simply means that we are not conscious, aware, alert, that we don't have any inner light to guide us.

  Rajneesh

  Moving, Mean, Dark

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• Do what you want, if it is something you did regret the next day, sleep in late.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Meaningful, Regret, Next Day

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• When you don't pray, the devil rides ya when ya sleep

  Lil Boosie

  Meaningful, Devil, Praying

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• Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more. Days of danger, nights of waking.

  Walter Scott

  Dream, Memorial Day, Night

  Sir Walter Scott (1873). “Poetical Works”, p.140

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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, Memorial

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

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• How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

  John Milton

  Death, Mother, Dying

  John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 10”

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• It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical folly have been such as caused acute suffering to the patient. When anesthetics were discovered, pious people considered them an attempt to evade the will of God. It was pointed out, however, that when God extracted Adam's rib He put him into a deep sleep. This proved that anesthetics are all right for men; women, however, ought to suffer, because of the curse of Eve.

  Bertrand Russell

  Pain, Science, Men

  Bertrand Russell (1972). “Atheism: collected essays, 1943-1949”, Arno Pr

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• It was about three o'clock at night when the final result of the calculation [which gave birth to quantum mechanics] lay before me ... At first I was deeply shaken ... I was so excited that I could not think of sleep. So I left the house ... and awaited the sunrise on top of a rock.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Science, Night, Thinking

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• I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm an adult with no bedtime. I spend the next four hours catching up on reading, e-mails, and other adult pursuits until I collapse for good until sunrise.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Baby, Reading, Sunrise

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• Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.

  Claude Monet

  Color, Worry, Constant

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• God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Night, Men, Roots

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.274

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• He that is thy friend indeed, - He will help thee in thy need: - If thou sorrow, he will weep; - If you wake, he cannot sleep; - Thus of every grief in heart - He with thee doth bear a part.

  Richard Barnfield

  Best Friend, Grief, Heart

  Richard Barnfield, “An Ode”

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• The uniform necessities of human nature produce in a great measure uniformity of life, and for part of the day make one place like another; to dress and to undress, to eat and to sleep, are the same in London as in the country.

  Samuel Johnson

  Country, Humanity, Dresses

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love.

  Phillips Brooks

  Angel, Watches, Wonder

  Phillips Brooks, “O Little Town Of Bethlehem”

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• Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth: And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth.

  William Wordsworth

  Lonely, Loneliness, Power

  'Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg' (1835)

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• You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Mother, Divorce, Good Things

  The Women act 2, sc. 4 (1937)

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• Gradually the sunken land begins to rise again, and falls perhaps again, and rises again after that, more and more gently each time, till as it were the panting earth, worn out with the fierce passions of her fiery youth, has sobbed herself to sleep once more, and this new world of man is made.

  Charles Kingsley

  Fall, Passion, Science

  Charles Kingsley (1860). “New miscellanies”, p.315

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