Quotes about Sleep

Meaningful Quotes about Sleep

Dreams

Sleep.—One hour's sleep before midnight is worth two after.—Fielding.

Even where sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing. - Homer

"To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub". William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one." -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Living is a disease from which sleep gives us relief eight hours a day."
-- S. R. N. Chamfort

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep." -- Joan Klempner

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

O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, that thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down and steep my senses in forgetfulness?
Shakespeare, William

God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed.—Saadi.

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor; and so shall thy labor sweeten thy rest.—Quarles.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops; and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up to-morrow.—Beecher.

Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.—Alcott.

There are many ways of inducing sleep,—the thinking of purling rills, or waving woods; reckoning of numbers; droppings from a wet sponge fixed over a brass pan, etc. But temperance and exercise answer much better than any of these succedaneums.—Sterne.

Sleep is a generous thief; he gives to vigor what he takes from time.—Elizabeth, Queen of Roumania.

O sleep! it is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole.
—Coleridge.

Thus we improve the pleasures of the day,
While tasteless mortals sleep their time away.
—Mrs. Centlivre.
 

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