quotations about sleep
The eye is not harmed by sleep.
CHINUA ACHEBE
No Longer at Ease
Welcome is sleep, more welcome the sleep of stone
Whilst crime and shame continue in the land;
My happy fortune, not to see or hear;
Waken me not--in mercy, whisper low.
MICHELANGELO
Walks in Florence
I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.
PETE WENTZ
Gray
Sleep is my only bedfellow.
ISAAC RIEMAN BAXLEY
Lais
In sleep I am not, I am gone,
I am given up.
And nothing in the world is lovelier than sleep,
dark dreamless sleep, in deep oblivion.
D. H. LAWRENCE
"Sleep and Waking"
There are hours claimed by Sleep, but refused to him. None the less are they his by some state within the mind, which answers rhythmically and punctually to that claim. Awake and at work, without drowsiness, without languor, and without gloom, the night mind of man is yet not his day mind; he has night-powers of feeling which are at their highest in dreams, but are night's as well as sleep's. The powers of the mind in dreams, which are inexplicable, are not altogether baffled because the mind is awake; it is the hour of their return as it is the hour of a tide's, and they do return. In sleep they have their free way. Night then has nothing to hamper her influence, and she draws the emotion, the senses, and the nerves of the sleeper. She urges him upon those extremities of anger and love, contempt and terror to which not only can no event of the real day persuade him, but for which, awake, he has perhaps not even the capacity. This increase of capacity, which is the dream's, is punctual to the night, even though sleep and the dream be kept at arm's length.
ALICE MEYNELL
"The Hours of Sleep", The Spirit of Place and Other Essays
Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night,
Brother to Death, in silent darkness born:
Relieve my languish, and restore the light,
With dark forgetting of my care return.
SAMUEL DANIEL
Sonnets to Delia
The number one cause of people not getting enough sleep, is just not dedicating enough time to get the sleep.
JASON HAUSMANN
"Sleep Deprivation in adults is more common than thought"
I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep is the consummate protection against the unseemliness that is the invariable consequence of being awake.
FRAN LEBOWITZ
Metropolitan Life
Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT
Table Talk
Dear sleep, I know we had problems when I was younger ... but I love you now.
ANONYMOUS
For a short period of time, if you need to get by in a few hours of sleep, let's say that you are a trauma surgeon, right? And you're on call and you have cases. That's totally fine, there's not much else that you can do. I think that where people get into trouble is when for an extended period of time, they try to cheat themselves of sleep. And then what happens is much like, almost like an alcohol addiction, that just becomes your new normal. So you get used to going on four to five hours of sleep and you assume that's just what it should feel like. When in fact, you probably can be a lot more productive a lot higher-performing if you slept more.
BRAD STULBERG
"Here's why four hours of sleep is terrible for you -- even if you don't feel tired", Business Insider, August 18, 2017
If I could sleep forever
I could forget about everything
DANDY WARHOLS
"Sleep"
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 tomorrow.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts