Sleep Quotes - Page 9

• He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.

  Karl Kraus

  Life, Half, Can't Sleep

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• Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife, the years from off your life, my friend! the years that death takes off my life, he'll take from off the other end!

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Cutting, Years, Knives

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• Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose.

  John Fletcher

  Brother, Care, Woe

  'Valentinian' (performed c.1610-14) act 5, sc. 7 'Song'

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• Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied with intervals of insensibility; and some late philosophers have extended the empire of sleep over the vegetable world.

  Samuel Johnson

  Animal, Vegetables, World

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

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• A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Littles, Little Love

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2009). “The Breaking Point: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.267, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Death-counterfeiting sleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Death

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1611

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• Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

  William Butler Yeats

  Twenties, Lasts, Nightmare

  "The Second Coming" l. 18 (1921)

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• It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies.

  Keren Ann

  Real, Book, Trying

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• I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.

  Walter Reisch

  Hate, Littles, I Hate

  "Fictional character: Count Saknussem". "Journey to the Center of the Earth", www.imdb.com. 1959.

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• I studied, I met with medical doctors, scientists, and I’m here to tell you that the way to a more productive, more inspired, more joyful life is: getting enough sleep.

  Arianna Huffington

  Motivation, Inspiration, Doctors

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• It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Insomnia, Men, Different

  The Crack-up 'Sleeping and Walking'

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• We sleep, allowing gravity to hold us, allowing Earth - our larger body - to recalibrate our neurons, composting the keen encounters of our waking hours , stirring them back, as dreams, into the sleeping substance of our muscles.

  David Abram

  Dream, Substance, Neurons

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• Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more!
  Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep,
  Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care,
  The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,
  Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
  Chief nourisher in life's feast...

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Insomnia, Voice

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 36

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• How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams. His pow'rs the most voluptuously dissolve In soft repose; on him the balmy dews Of Sleep with double nutriment descend.

  John Armstrong

  Dream, Deities, Toil

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• The timely dew of sleep Now falling with soft slumb'rous weight inclines Our eyelids.

  John Milton

  Fall, Dew, Weight

  John Milton (1824). “The poetical works of John Milton: with notes of various authors, principally from the editions of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster and Thomas Warton ; to which is prefixed Newton's life of Milton”, p.263

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• The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

  E. M. Forster

  Life, Food, Enlightenment

  "Aspects of the Novel".

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• A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

  Honore de Balzac

  Inspirational, Good Morning, Marriage

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• I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.

  Twyla Tharp

  Night, Thinking, People

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• In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Beautiful, Lying, Heart

  Thomas Wolfe, Francis E. Skipp (1989). “The Complete Short Stories Of Thomas Wolfe”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

  Dr. Seuss

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dream, Halloween

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

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• How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.

  Dorothy Parker

  Beautiful, Night, Insomnia

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.197, Penguin

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• There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons.

  Henry Channon

  Insomnia, House, Library

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• I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Years, Bed, Needs

  Decline and Fall (1928) pt. 2, ch. 3

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• Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.

  Ogden Nash

  Human Nature, Legislature, Humans

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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