Quotes about Sleep and Love,babies,night,dreams,sleepiness,science and sleepovers

Quotes about Sleep.Sleep is like the unicorn - it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any— Anonymous

People who say life is a bed of roses usually complain about sleeping in thorns.— Anonymous

The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.— Anonymous

Problems always look smaller after a warm meal and a good night's sleep.— Anonymous

Never stand when you can sit, never sit when you can lie down, never stay awake when you can sleep.— Anonymous from the Army and the Fire Service

To know much sleep less.— Anonymous

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. — Anthony Burgess

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.— Leo Burke

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.— Gaston Bachelard

There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act. We surrender to sleep, but in the way that the master entrusts himself to the slave who serves him.— Maurice Blanchot

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 without my prayers.— Sir Thomas Browne

Sleep hath its own world, and a wide realm of wild reality. And dreams in their development have breath, and tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy.— Lord Byron

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.— Dale Carnegie

Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep: it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; 'Tis meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. 'Tis the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap; and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise-man even. There is only one thing that I dislike in sleep; 'Tis that it resembles death; there's very little difference between a man in his first sleep, and a man in his last sleep.— Miguel De Cervantes

The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.— E. Joseph Cossman

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 Heaven, that slid into my soul.— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.— Thomas Dekker(1577-1632)

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.— Phillip K. Dick

Sleeping alone, except under doctor's orders, does much harm. Children will tell you how lonely it is sleeping alone. If possible, you should always sleep with someone you love. You both recharge your mutual batteries free of charge. — Marlene Dietrich Marlene Dietrich's ABC, 1962

The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not; To want for one who comes not; To try to please and please not.— Egyptian Proverb

I don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day.Linda Evangelista

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.— Benjamin Franklin

Fatigue is the best pillow.— Benjamin Franklin

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.— French proverb

Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.— William Golding

To sleep is an act of faith — Barbara G. Harrison

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.— William Hazlitt

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.— Heraclitus

O bed! O bed! delicious bed!That heaven upon earth to the weary head.— Thomas Hood, Miss Kilmansegg - Her Dream

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book— Irish proverb

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique. — Benjamin Jowett

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 be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius. — Soren Kierkegaard

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep. — Joan Klempner

He who sleeps half a day has won half a life. — Karl Kraus

Sleep is the best meditation.— Dalai Lama

Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction. — Isidore Ducasse Comte De Lautreamont

And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created. — DH Lawrence

Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them.— C.S. Lewis

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the I, under another form, continues the task of existence.— Gerard De Nerval

I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.— Emo Phillips

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.— Plutarch Quotation

Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.— Proverb (English)

Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.— Ronald Reagan

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.— Albert Schweitzer

A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.— George Bernard Shaw

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 indifferent judge between the high and low.— Sir Philip Sidney

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. — John Steinbeck

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark — Mary Stewart English novelist, The Hollow Hills, 1973

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. — Mark Twain

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy.— Izaak Walton

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 wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife; and these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them, and such as it is to be of these more or less I am, and of these one and all I weave the song of myself.— Walt Whitman

Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear, your head like the golden-rod, and we will go sailing away from here to the beautiful land of Nod.— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.— Virginia Woolf

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. ~Dale Carnegie

No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap. ~Carrie Snow

Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of careThe death of each day's life, sore labour's bathBalm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,Chief nourisher in life's feast.~William Shakespeare, Macbeth

There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled. ~Edward Lucas

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. ~Leo J. Burke

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep. ~Fran Lebowitz

It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out. ~Bill Watterson

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late. ~Charles Caleb Colton

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb

Life is too short to sleep on low thread-count sheets. ~Leah Stussy

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up. ~Ellen Goodman

Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death. ~Author unknown, various wordings commonly attributed to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, and Journey to the Center of the Earth

And if tonight my soul may find her peacein sleep, and sink in good oblivion,and in the morning wake like a new-opened flowerthen I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.~D.H. Lawrence

Consciousness: that annoying time between naps. ~Author Unknown

There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast. ~Author Unknown

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking. ~Clifton Fadiman

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed. ~Ambrose Bierce

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows. ~Gaston Bachelard

Sleep is perverse as human nature,Sleep is perverse as legislature....So people who go to bed to sleepMust count French premiers or sheep,And people who ought to arise from bedYawn and go back to sleep instead.~Ogden Nash, Read This Vibrant Exposé

If people were meant to pop out of bed, we'd all sleep in toasters. ~Author unknown, attributed to Jim Davis

Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation. ~Author Unknown

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. ~Arthur Schopenhauer

A flock of sheep that leisurely pass byOne after one; the sound of rain, and beesMurmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas,Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky -I've thought of all by turns, and still I lieSleepless...~William Wordsworth, "To Sleep"

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he'd make a fortune. ~Griff Niblack

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. ~Charlotte Brontë

[S]leep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. ~Thomas Dekker

People who snore always fall asleep first. ~Author Unknown

Without enough sleep, we all become tall two-year-olds. ~JoJo Jensen, Dirt Farmer Wisdom, 2002

When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep, and you're never really awake. ~From the movie Fight Club, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk

The best cure for insomnia is a Monday morning. ~Author Unknown

Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even. ~Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, 1605

The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

O bed! O bed! delicious bed!That heaven upon earth to the weary head.~Thomas Hood, Miss Kilmansegg - Her Dream

There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock. ~Author Unknown

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. ~John Steinbeck

Nothing cures insomnia like the realization that it's time to get up. ~Author Unknown

Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity,Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify,Weary bodies refresh and mollify.~Ovid, attributed

Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your headAnd kick every worriment out of the bed.~Edmund Vance Cooke

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own. ~Plutarch

Then, the cool kindliness of sheets, that soonSmooth away trouble; and the rough male kissOf blankets....~Rupert Brooke, "The Great Lover,"

The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep. ~E. Joseph Cossman

Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing,Beloved from pole to pole.~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fatigue is the best pillow. ~Benjamin Franklin

O sleep, O gentle sleep,Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids downAnd steep my sense in forgetfulness?~William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I

I'm not asleep... but that doesn't mean I'm awake. ~Author Unknown

Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. ~Vladimir Nabokov

It's at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull. I don't know if anyone has ever pointed out that great attraction of insomnia before, but it is so; the night seems to release a little more of our vast backward inheritance of instincts and feelings; as with the dawn, a little honey is allowed to ooze between the lips of the sandwich, a little of the stuff of dreams to drip into the waking mind. I wish I believed, as J. B. Priestley did, that consciousness continues after disembodiment or death, not forever, but for a long while. Three score years and ten is such a stingy ration of time, when there is so much time around. Perhaps that's why some of us are insomniacs; night is so precious that it would be pusillanimous to sleep all through it! A "bad night" is not always a bad thing. ~Brian W. Aldiss

The days are cold, the nights are long,The North wind sings a doleful song;Then hush again upon my breast;All merry things are now at rest,Save thee, my pretty love!~Dorothy Wordsworth, "The Cottager to Her Infant"

Sleep 'til you're hungry, eat 'til you're sleepy. ~Author Unknown

Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine. ~Author Unknown

Even thus last night, and two nights more I lay,And could not win thee, Sleep, by any stealth:So do not let me wear to-night away.Without thee what is all the morning's wealth?Come, blessed barrier between day and day,Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!~William Wordsworth, "To Sleep"

The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more. ~Wilson Mizener

In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge. ~Colette

Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night. ~George Allen

But no one ever is allowed in Sleepytown, unlessHe goes to bed in time to take the Sleepytown Express!~James Jackson Montague, The Sleepytown Express

Early to rise and early to bedMakes a man healthy and wealthy and dead.~James Thurber, Fables for Our Times, 1940

It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbour's as are their daytime hopes and aspirations. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things. ~Dorothy Parker

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Cut if you will with sleep's dull knifeThe years from off your life, my friend!The years that death takes off my life,He'll take from off the other end!~Edna St. Vincent Millay

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night. ~Marie de Rabutin-Chantal

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants. ~Jessamyn West

The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world. ~Edgar Watson Howe

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.

Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

Sleep is like the unicorn - it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any.

He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.

Life is something that happens when you can’t get to sleep.

People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.

To sleep is an act of faith.

Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.

Problems always look smaller after a warm meal and a good night’s sleep.

A sleepless night is as long as a year.

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.

People who say life is a bed of roses usually complain about sleeping in thorns.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.

Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

No day is so bad it can’t be fixed with a nap.

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward. Baltasar Gracian

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep. Fran Lebowitz

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. Leo J. Burke

Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... without the satisfaction. Lynn Johnston

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. Benjamin Franklin

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. Dale Carnegie

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. Mark Twain

How he sleepeth! having drunken Weary childhood's mandragore, From his pretty eyes have sunken Pleasures to make room for more-- Sleeping near the withered nosegay which he pulled the day before. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.' Steven Wright

[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. Thomas Dekker

Death's brother, Sleep. Virgil

What means this heaviness that hangs upon me? This lethargy that creeps through all my senses? Nature, oppress'd and harrass'd out with care, Sinks down to rest. Joseph Addison

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. Homer

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep. Joan Klempner

What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep? Thomas Bailey Aldrich

How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams. His pow'rs the most voluptuously dissolve In soft repose; on him the balmy dews Of Sleep with double nutriment descend. John Armstrong

When the sheep are in the fauld, and a' the kye at hame, And all the weary world to sleep are gane. Lady Ann Barnard

Still believe that ever round you Spirits float who watch and wait; Nor forget the twain who found you Sleeping nigh the Golden Gate. Sir Walter Besant and J. Rice

Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. Bible

Sleep is a death, O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die: And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. Sir Thomas Browne

Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep, Now tell me if that any is. For gift or grace, surpassing this-- "He giveth His beloved sleep." Elizabeth Barrett Browning

But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door of dreams Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep! Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Come to me now! O, come! benignest sleep! And fold me up, as evening doth a flower, From my vain self, and vain things which have power Upon my soul to make me smile or weep. And when thou comest, oh, like Death be deep. Patrick Proctor Alexander

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence: Sleep hath its own world, And a wide realm of wild reality, And dreams in their development have breath, And tears and tortures, and the touch of joy. Lord Byron

There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons. Henry "Chips" Channon

It is not good a sleping hound to wake. Geoffrey Chaucer

O sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole! To Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven That slid into my soul. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety. Bible

Since the Brother of Death daily haunts us with dying mementoes. Sir Thomas Browne

Living is a disease from which sleep gives us relief eight hours a day. Chamfort

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. Anthony Burgess

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. Victor Hugo

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.' Stephen Wright

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in. Evan Davis

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep. Joan Klempner

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. Walt Whitman

Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night. Anonymous

It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep. Bible

Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death.... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark. Mary Stewart

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Visit her, gentle Sleep! with wings of healing, And may this storm be but a mountain-birth, May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping Earth! Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. Bible

Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born; Relive my languish, and restore the light. Samuel Daniel

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. Dale Carnegie

Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day. Anonymous

"Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep." -- Fran Lebowitz

"There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep." -- Homer

"People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one." -- Leo J. Burke

"I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting." -- Mark Twain

"All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own." -- Plutarch

"It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards." -Baltasar Gracien"

"Even where sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing." -- Homer

"Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone." -- Anthony Burgess

"That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep." -- Aldous Huxley

"For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one." -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more."-- Woody Allen

"If you want your spouse to listen and pay strict attention to every word you say, talk in your sleep."-- Anonymous

"A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep."-- Anonymous

"Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep: And yet a third of Life is passed in sleep."-- Lord Byron

"Living is a disease from which sleep gives us relief eight hours a day."-- S. R. N. Chamfort

"A light supper, a good night's sleep and a fine morning have often made a hero out of the same man, who, by indigestion, a restless night and a rainy morning would have proved a coward."-- Lord Chesterfield 1694-1773

"Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in."-- Evan Davis

"Children have more energy after a hard day of play than they do after a good night's sleep."-- R. F Gumperson

"To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep." -- Joan Klempner

"The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows."-- Gaston Bachelard

"And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created." -- D. H. Lawrence

"Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast." -- William Shakespeare

"In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death."-- Thomas Wolfe

Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night. ~ Unknown

~ A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book ~ Irish proverb

~ No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap ~ Carrie Snow

~ He who sleeps half a day has won half a life. ~ Karl Kraus

~ Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool. ~ English proverb

~ To sleep is an act of faith ~ Barbara G. Harrison

~ SLEEP - Those little slices of death, how I loathe them. ~ Edgar Allen Poe

~ Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep. ~ Fran Lebowitz

~ Living is a disease from which sleep gives us relief eight hours a day. ~ Chamfort

~ [Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. ~ Thomas Dekker

~ Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. ~ Sir Francis Bacon

~ There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more. ~ Woody Allen

~ Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. ~ Benjamin Franklin

~ Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle. ~ Heinrich Heine

~ The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world. ~ Edgar Watson Howe

~ Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

~ Fatigue is the best pillow. ~ Benjamin Franklin

~ The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

~ Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life. ~ Virginia Woolf

~ If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. ~ Dale Carnegie

~ It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. ~ Baltasar Gracián

~ Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

~ Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind. ~ William Golding

~ Sleep is sweet to the labouring man. ~ John Bunyan

~ To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep. ~ Joan Klempner

~ What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep? ~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich

~ Only those who are asleep make no mistakes. ~ Ingvar Kamprad

~ And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created. ~ D.H. Lawrence

~ Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark. ~ Mary Stewart

~ In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death. ~ Thomas Wolfe

~ Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,Chief nourisher in life's feast. ~ William Shakespeare

~ A light supper, a good night's sleep and a fine morning have often made a hero out of the same man, who, by indigestion, a restless night and a rainy morning would have proved a coward. ~ Lord Chesterfield

~ Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep: And yet a third of Life is passed in sleep. ~ Lord Byron

~ For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

~ All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own. ~ Plutarch

~ People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. ~ Leo J. Burke

~ Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

~ Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

~ True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. ~ Sir William Penn

~ Sleeping is not time wasting. ~ Mike Wilson

~ Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants. ~ Jessamyn West

~ A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. ~ Charlotte Brontë

~ Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day. ~ Unknown

~ There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons. ~ Henry Channon

~ Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep! ~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich

~ Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast. ~ William Shakespeare

~ Even where sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing. ~ Homer

~ Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... without the satisfaction. ~ Lynn Johnston

~ Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing. ~ Bill Cosby

~ Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters. ~ Ogden Nash

~ He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence ~ William Dean Howells

~ Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfill all the offices of death, except to kill ~ John Donne

~ Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Life is too short to sleep on low thread-count sheets. ~ Leah Stussy

~ It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out. ~ Bill Watterson

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