Sleep Quotes

5676 Sleep quotes by 3141 unique authors

Sleep is out... tired is the new black. — Amy Poehler
In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable. — Knute Nelson
Whate'er thy joys, they vanish with the day: Whate'er thy griefs, in sleep they fade away, To sleep! to sleep! Sleep, mournful heart, and let… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for… — Miguel de Cervantes
Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity, Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify, Weary bodies refresh and mollify. — Unknown Author
I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would… — Soren Kierkegaard
We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it… — Thomas Browne
Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind. — William Golding
Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the… — Philip Sidney
The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband sleeps by his… — Walt Whitman
Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up. — Truman Capote
Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound. — William Shakespeare
You lack the season of all natures, sleep. — William Shakespeare
What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? Young son, it argues a distemper'd head So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed: Care keeps… — William Shakespeare
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… — William Shakespeare
The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational… — Emile M. Cioran
Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep. — Norman Cousins
The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home. — Christopher Columbus
You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you. That's where I'll… — James M. Barrie
We're left alone with each other. We have to creep close to each other and give gentle little nudges with our paws and our muzzles… — Tennessee Williams
There are almost no limits to the discoveries of how the human brain operates in illness and health, in sleep and waking and dreaming, in… — Max Lerner
We are not hypocrites in our sleep. — William Hazlitt
The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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