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• Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. Similarly, someone who hears traumatic news will often swoon or faint. This is the mind's way of protecting itself from pain.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Hurt, Pain, Distance

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.108, Hachette UK

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  He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

  Aeschylus

  Inspirational, Sympathy, God

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

  Dale Carnegie

  Happiness, Lying, Insomnia

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• I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark

  Mary Stewart

  Pain, Dark, Together

  Mary Stewart (1978). “Hollow Hills”, Fawcett

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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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• What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Wish, Shut Up

  William Shakespeare, David Lindley (2002). “The Tempest”, p.138, Cambridge University Press

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• Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Heaven, Lamps

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.

  Sylvia Plath

  Life, Tired, Would Be

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.83, Anchor

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• Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Trying, Bed, Want

  The Crack-Up "Note-Books" (1945)

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• A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Plato, Lying

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• All sense of hearing and of sight enfold in the serene delight and quietude of sleep.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sight, Delight, Hearing

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1875). “The Masque of Pandora: And Other Poems”, p.44

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• The only parents in the world who don’t need sleep, and our child already sleeps through the night. Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 22, p.429

  Stephenie Meyer

  Children, Night, Parent

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• We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

  Earl Nightingale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Uplifting

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.92, Lulu.com

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• Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low.

  Philip Sidney

  Peace, Insomnia, Men

  'Astrophel and Stella' (1591) sonnet 39

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• I'll sleep when I'm dead.

  Warren Zevon

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  Song: I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

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• When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Sad, Beautiful

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  But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Inspirational, Tattoo

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

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• I bounce off four walls, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, because I only sleep those four hours a day.

  Casper Van Dien

  Wall, Four, Seven Days

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Codice Trivulziano 281

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• The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife; and these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them, and such as it is to be of these more or less I am, and of these one and all I weave the song of myself.

  Walt Whitman

  Country, Song, Husband

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.20, NYU Press

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• A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Valentines Day, Perseverance

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• Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that which it typifies, restricted to the earth. It flies from hell and is excluded from heaven.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Heaven, Earth, Hell

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.121

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• A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivation, Two, Lazy

  Benjamin Franklin (1839). “The Life and Miscellaneous Writings of Benjamin Franklin”, p.49

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• Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot.Ê It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Wise, Kings, Blessing

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• Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Sympathy, Condolences, Wine

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