Sleep Quotes - Page 5

• Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Queens, Insomnia, Heaven

  'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) pt. 5

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• I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.

  Francois Rabelais

  Praying, I Pray To God, Sermons

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 716-21, Gargantua, Book I, Chapter XLI, 1922.

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• Alike to the slave and his oppressor cometh night with sweet refreshment, and half of the life of the most wretched is gladdened by the soothings of sleep.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Sweet, Night, Half

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1839). “Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments”, p.45

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• Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Eye, Men

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Plays”, p.37

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• Leave your bed upon the first desertion of sleep; it being ill for the eye's to read lying, and worse for the mind to be idle; since the head during that laziness is commonly a cage for unclean thoughts.

  Frances Osborne

  Lying, Eye, Mind

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• The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Morning, Night, Insomnia

  "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

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• It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Lying, Awake At Night, Emotion

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.86, Shambhala Publications

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• And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Sorrow, Shut Up

  William Shakespeare (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.438

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• Not poppy, nor mandrake, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep, Which thou owest yesterday.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Sweet, Flower, Medicine

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• In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Thinking, Insomnia, Oasis

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• Sleep on, Baby, on the floor, Tired of all the playing, Sleep with smile the sweeter for That you dropped away in! On your curls' full roundness stand Golden lights serenely-- One cheek, pushed out by the hand, Folds the dimple inly.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Baby, Tired, Light

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.102

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• It is a delicious moment, certainly, that of being well nestled in bed, and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come, not past; the limbs have just been tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful; the labour of the day is gone

  Leigh Hunt

  Tired, Past, Feelings

  Leigh Hunt (1820). “The Indicator”, p.105

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• Beauties, when disposed to sleep,
  Should from the eye of keen inspector keep:
  The lovely nymph who would her swain surprise,
  May close her mouth, but not conceal her eyes;
  Sleep from the fairest face some beauty takes,
  And all the homely features homelier makes.

  George Crabbe

  Eye, Nymphs, Lovely

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.48

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• Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Death, Relief, Literature

  'Maximes et Pensèes' (1796) ch. 2

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• I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

  Rene Descartes

  Dream, Awake At Night, Imagine

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• I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

  Andy Warhol

  War, Thinking, Commercial Art

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

  John Keats

  Love, Life, Beauty

  Endymion bk. 1, l. 1 (1818)

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• Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Sweet, Hurt

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 3, sc. 2, l. [152]

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• You lack the season of all natures, sleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Insomnia, Macbeth Theme, Seasons

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 141

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• The timely dew of sleep.

  John Milton

  Dew, Timely

  John Milton (1732). “Milton's Paradise Lost”

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• Soft closer of our eyes! Low murmur of tender lullabies!

  John Keats

  Eye, Lows, Lullaby

  John Keats (1925). “Poetical Works”

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• Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, and down drops a little dream for thee.

  Elizabeth Prentiss

  Mother, Dream, Baby

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• No one but an adventurous traveler can know the luxury of sleep.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Luxury, Adventurous, Traveler

  Benjamin Disraeli (2010). “Vivian Grey”, p.405, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Sister Simplicitie!
  Sing, sing a song to me,--
  Sing me to sleep!
  Some legend low and long,
  Slow as the summer song
  Of the dull Deep.

  Sydney Thompson Dobell

  Summer, Song, Long

  Sydney Thompson Dobell, “Fragment Of A Sleep-Song”

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• He that sleeps feels not the tooth-ache

  William Shakespeare

  Teeth, Ache, Feels

  'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 5, sc. 4, l. [176]

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