SLEEP QUOTES
quotations about sleep
We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Tempest
No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap.
CARRIE SNOW
Women's Health, April 2006
There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1758
I love to sleep. Do you? Isn't it great? It really is the best of both worlds. You get to be alive and unconscious.
RITA RUDNER
stand-up routine
There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours' oblivion.
ANNE REEVE ALDRICH
"An Evening With Callender"
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
ANONYMOUS
The sleep thou takest when the day is worn
Is not more needful to thy weary frame
Than that long sleep which has a harsher name,
Which men call Death, but which is being born.
JOHN CHARLES EARLE
"Sleep and Death"
Sleep is a country
whose border guards are fickle.
Some people
slip in and out without
effort, unquestioned.
For them, sleep is routine
and therefore blank.
For others, it is an excursion
from which they bring back
exotic souvenirs and memories of
archetypal visitations.
ANNE LE DRESSAY
Sleep Is a Country
Sleep is life's nurse, sent from heaven to create us anew day by day.
CHARLES READE
attributed, Day's Collacon
A full draught of oblivion is nature's elixir for restoring the body's tone and tension after being drugged with the opium of the day's delusions. Sleep holds the keys to the mysteries of divination, the laws of sanity. Sleep and dream, so fabled the wise ancients, sway the destinies of mortals. Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams. Sleep is the sure antidote of insanity, the cure of idiocy, the giant of strengths, without whose potent anodynes every creature would run rabid, perception lapse into inanity. Only as we sleep do we survive the fever of thought or quench its flame.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT
Table Talk
What are the days but islands,
So many little islands,
And sleep the sea of silence,
That flows about them all?
CAROLINE SPENCER
"Cruising"
Oh, to those bereft of hope
Sleep is the only blessing left--the last
Asylum of the weary, the one sign
Of pity from impenetrable heaven.
HENRY VAN DYKE
"The House of Rimmon"
The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
E. JOSEPH COSSMAN
How I Made $1,000,000 in Mail Order
O magic sleep! O comfortable bird,
That broodest o'er the troubled sea of the mind
Till it is hush'd and smooth!
JOHN KEATS
Endymion
Sleep that knits up the ravelled 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
Macbeth
I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.
DAVID BENIOFF
City of Thieves
Sleep is a hint of lovely oblivion.
D. H. LAWRENCE
"Sleep"
Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.
JOHN BUNYAN
The Pilgrim's Progress
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation.
J. M. COETZEE
Waiting for the Barbarians