Sleep Quotes - Page 4

• To sleep is an act of faith.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Can't Sleep

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• Never go to sleep
  without a request to your subconscious.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Mind, Subconscious, Request

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• All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

  Plutarch

  Dream, Insomnia, Men

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch. "Of Superstition",

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• Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

  Heinrich Heine

  Fear, Atheism, Rage

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• And then... as you were sleeping, you said my name. You spoke so clearly, at first I thought you'd woken. But you rolled over restlessly and mumbled my name once more, and sighed. The feeling that coursed through me then was unnerving, staggering. And I knew I couldn't ignore you any longer.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Names, Feelings, Firsts

  "Twilight". Book by Stephenie Meyer, October 5, 2005.

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• Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Blessing, Insomnia, Men

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.730, Wordsworth Editions

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• O sleep! O sleep!
  Do not forget me. Sometimes come and sweep,
  Now I have nothing left, thy healing hand
  Over the lids that crave thy visits bland,
  Thou kind, thou comforting one.
  For I have seen his face, as I desired,
  And all my story is done.
  O, I am tired.

  Jean Ingelow

  Healing, Tired, Hands

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.133

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• I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. She used to wake me up in the middle of the night if I wasn't sleeping straight and was messing up the sheets. Now when I stay in hotels I sleep so straight they don't even think I've used the bed.

  Marina Abramovic

  Mother, Thinking, Night

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• Once you hit 40, you can't do it anymore. Who's got this energy to go on three hours of sleep? You just can't do it.

  Marta Kauffman

  Art, Energy, Three

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• And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Peace, Morning, Flower

  "Shadows" l. 1 (1932)

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• But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door of dreams Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Dream, Twilight, Doors

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• Who can wrestle against Sleep? - Yet is that giant very gentleness.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Giants, Gentleness

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1842). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated. Second series”, p.84

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

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Insomnia, Trying, World

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• Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Dream, Insomnia, Thinking

  Clifton Fadiman (1957). “Any Number Can Play”, Cleveland : World Publishing Company

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• Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Insomnia, Redemption, Pay

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Dream, Insomnia, Accomplishment

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Adversity, Insomnia, Wake Up

  "Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau". Book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1782.

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• Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Coffee, Communication, Memorable

  "Gift from the Sea". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955.

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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

  Depth, Needs, Daylight

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1963). “NORTH TO THE ORIENT”

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• Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Insomnia, Trying, Done

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature”, p.137, Cambridge University Press

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• Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.

  Ingvar Kamprad

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Mistake

  "The Testament of a Furniture Dealer". Book by Ingvar Kamprad, 1976.

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• Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.

  Franz Kafka

  Life, Novelists, Miserable

  Franz Kafka (1971). “1910-1913. Tr. by Joseph Kresh”

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• She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.

  Lois Lowry

  Dream, Stars, Night

  Lois Lowry (1989). “Number the Stars”, p.98, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'

  Steven Wright

  Good Morning, Girlfriend, Mistake

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• O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Night, Insomnia

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

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