Sleep Quotes

5676 Sleep quotes by 3141 unique authors

At the moment I am occupied by an investigation with Kirchoff which does not allow us to sleep. Kirchoff has made a totally unexpected discovery,… — Robert Bunsen
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature, and natural means… — Thomas Jefferson
Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar. — Mark Twain
Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe... Why do we have time to… — Ajahn Chah
One has to reach to the absolute state of awareness: that is Zen. You cannot do it every morning for a few minutes or for… — Rajneesh
Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women, and children have… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet my axe is restless in… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all. — Heinrich Heine
If you are trying to slip out without waking a sleeping man, zips are a nightmare. Haven't you ever tried to creep out of the… — Diane von Furstenberg
The quiet mind is richer than a crown....Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss beggars enjoy when princes oft do miss. — Robert Greene
Not even the deepest sleep will give you such a rest as meditation can. The mind goes on jumping even in deepest sleep. Just those… — Swami Vivekananda
Try a little harder, and meditation comes. You do not feel the body or anything else. When you come out of it after the hour,… — Swami Vivekananda
Meditation means undoing what the society has done to you. It has reduced you to a machine; you have to de-automatise yourself, you have to… — Rajneesh
My meditation techniques ARE dangerous. In fact there cannot be any meditation techniques which are not dangerous. If they are not dangerous, they are not… — Rajneesh
Through meditation one has to achieve a dreamless sleep with full alertness. Once this happens, the drop falls into the ocean and becomes the ocean. — Rajneesh
What is meditation? It is not your character, it is not what you do. It is what you are. It is not the character, it… — Rajneesh
He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For Justice all place… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Every funeral may justly be considered as a summons to prepare for that state into which it shows us that we must some time enter;… — Lyndon B. Johnson
There are days in retirement that are the waking equivalent of a dreamless sleep, if you know what I mean. — Robert Breault
I am a father. My son's name is Max and my daughter's name is Billie Grace. Twelve years ago Max was born with Down Syndrome.… — John C. McGinley
I work, and then whenever I have any other time, I'm with my daughter, and then I go to sleep. I think you basically have… — Tina Fey
When I had my first boy it all started and that male energy seemed to keep me awake but since my daughter, who's incredibly serene,… — Sadie Frost
Sleep; and if life was bitter to thee, pardon, If sweet, give thanks; thou hast no more to live; And to give thanks is good,… — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the… — William Shakespeare
I told my doctor, "I've swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills" and he told me to have a few drinks and get some rest. — Rodney Dangerfield

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