Half Quote by Martin Farquhar Tupper

Sweet sleep fell upon his eyelids, unwakeful, most pleasant, the nearest like death.

— Homer

Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,Dreaming o'er the joys of night.Sleep, sleep: in thy sleepLittle sorrows sit and weep.

— William Blake

“My life, as it passes thus, was indeed hateful to me, and it was during sleep alone that I could taste joy. O blessed…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“Always, in these times, I am wretched save when sleep comes to me. Therefore, I have come to look upon sleep as the best…

— Rosemary Sutcliff

Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.

— Leigh Hunt

“Do but consider what an excellent thing sleep is...that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. Who complains of want? of wounds?…

— Thomas Dekker

“When he woke up in the darkness of his hot and stuffy room he felt, even before his mind began working again, that painful…

— Guy de Maupassant

“the place of peace, the relief from the emotion, the fear, the loneliness. Sleep was what they all craved at the end of the…

— Angela Marsons

What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?

— Colleen McCullough

“Life often lulls us to sleep, makes us drowsy with the promise of unbroken tranquillity, only to stir us from our peaceful slumber with…

— Lee Irby

“The days and the light feel like brief moments of torture, put here to remind us of what we don’t have any more. Joy…

— Craig Stone

“...an irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself...”

— Homer