Slumber Quotes

• Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Honey, Dew

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 230

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• O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Insomnia, Nurse

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

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• To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

  Walter Scott

  Good Night, Goodnight, Dream

  Sir Walter Scott (1826). “The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Etc”, p.82

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• We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Wind, Dull

  Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Short Stories”, p.374, Bottletree Books LLC

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• A thought once awakened does not again slumber.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Doe, Awakened, Stature

  Thomas Carlyle (1841). “On Heroes, Hero-Worship,&the Heroic in History. Six Lectures. Reported with emendations and additions”, p.34

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• If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect on what's come before.

  Mitchell Burgess

  Summer, Mother, Spring

  "Northern Exposure (Thanksgiving)". TV Series, November 23, 1992.

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• Over my slumbers your loving watch keep; Rock me to sleep, mother; rock me to sleep.

  Liz Chase

  Daughter, Mother, Sleep

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• It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

  John Steinbeck

  Life, Good Morning, Adversity

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.180, Penguin

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• Tis the voice of the sluggard I heard him complain,You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again.

  Isaac Watts

  Voice, Complaining, Heard

  'The Sluggard'

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• Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

  Bill Cosby

  Fake People, Sleep, Eye

  Twitter post from Nov 05, 2009

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• There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them - isn’t this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?

  Vaclav Havel

  Intellectual, Doubt, Might

  "Words on Words" by Vaclav Havel, www.nybooks.com. January 18, 1990.

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• It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've felt, very often, a vicarious happiness. I haven't existed. I've been someone else. I've lived without thinking.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Thinking, Lasts, Months

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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, Sleep, Night

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

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• Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heap'd for the belovèd's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Sweet, Art

  'To-: Music when soft voices die' (published 1824).

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• Do not wake me from this slumber, but be assured that just as I have wept much, I have also wandered many roads with my thoughts.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  My Thoughts, Assured

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• Love is not all; it is not meat nor drink.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Love Is, Meat, Drink

  "Love Is Not All" l. 1 (1931)

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• Music, when soft voices die,
  Vibrates in the memory;
  Odors, when sweet violets sicken,
  Live within the sense they quicken.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Music, Sweet, Memories

  'To-: Music when soft voices die' (published 1824).

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• Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.

  Karl Marx

  Museums, Civilization, Dancer

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1976). “Collected works”

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• Even in the grave, all is not lost.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Lost, Pendulums, Graves

  Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “The Pit and the Pendulum”, p.4, Booklassic

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• Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Music, Memories, Voice

  'To - : One word is too often profaned'

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• Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sleep, Numbers, Dew

  1819 'The Mask of Anarchy'.

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• Humanity has been sleeping-and still sleeps-lulled within the narrowly confining joys of its little closed loves. In the depths of the human multitude there slumbers an immense spiritual power which will manifest itself only when we have learnt how to break through the dividing walls of our egoism and raise ourselves up to an entirely new perspective, so that habitually and in a practical fashion we fix our gaze on the universal realities.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Spiritual, Fashion, Wall

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• Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour

  Walter de La Mare

  Lovely, Looks, Lasts

  Motley and Other Poems (1918) "Fare Well"

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• Those who dream must be awakened, and the deeper the people are who slumber, or the deeper they slumber, the more important it is that they be awakened, and the more powerfully must they be awakened.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Dream, People, Important

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• Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night, The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go -- the pains of Day to soothe, console -- Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.

  Bram Stoker

  Sweet, Art, Pain

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