Arms Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead.

— John Banville

The state of sleep is a state of freedom in which man is not occupied with the manipulation of the outside world.

— Erich Fromm

There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed…

— Maurice Blanchot

There's something sacred in all of us that we need to protect, and sleep is a way to connect with it, nourish it, and…

— Arianna Huffington

Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.

— Anonymous

In the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if society never ceases to intervene.

— Erich Fromm

Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our…

— Saint Basil

Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity.

— Djuna Barnes

I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a…

— William Shakespeare

“If one has given oneself utterly, watching the beloved sleep can be a vile experience. Perhaps some of you have known that paralysis, staring…

— Clive Barker

To sleep is an act of faith.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison