Sleep Quotes - Page 7

• We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

  William Hazlitt

  Hypocrite, Can't Sleep, Hypocrisy

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1808, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Thomas Browne

  Death, Prayer, Insomnia

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Pseudodoxia epidemica, books V-VII. Religio medici. The garden of Cyprus”, p.446

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• I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.

  Fanny Burney

  Joy, Sorrow, Restless

  Fanny Burney (1820). “Evelina; Or, The History of a Young Lady's Introduction to the World”, p.259

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• Sleep in the bliss of God.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Bliss

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• I haven't slept in days. And me and my latest girl agreed to go our separate ways.

  Drake

  Love, Relationship, Moving On

  Song: Unforgettable, Album: Thank Me Later, 2010

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• One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.

  Robert Browning

  Courage, Fall, Fighting

  'Asolando' (1889) 'Epilogue'

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• Oh, insomnia! Ah, well, I know a good cure for it... Get plenty of sleep.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Humorous, Insomnia

  "Fictional character: The Great Man". "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break", www.imdb.com. October 10, 1941.

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• I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Good Morning, Death, Afterlife

  Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow (2011). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself”, p.288, Cambridge University Press

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• I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.

  Oliver Reed

  Drinking, Ambition, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

  Salman Rushdie

  Courage, Names, Poetry

  The Satanic Verses pt. 2 (1988)

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• Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, morn of toil, nor night of waking.

  Walter Scott

  Night, Toil, Waking

  Sir Walter Scott (1833). “The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations”, p.444

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• If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Good Morning, Laughter

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• 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

  Mother, Dream, Morning

  William Wordsworth (1848). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England”, p.181

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• There are many ways of inducing sleep--the thinking of purling rills, or waving woods; reckoning of numbers; droppings from a wet sponge fixed over a brass pan, etc. But temperance and exercise answer much better than any of these succedaneums.

  Laurence Sterne

  Exercise, Thinking, Numbers

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• What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Mystery, Probing, Good Sleep

  THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH (1877). “FLOWER AND THORN”

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• The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Marriage, Lying

  Without Feathers "The Scrolls" (1975) See Bible 167

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Night, Insomnia

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.471, Library of America

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• Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Delicate, Turns, Hinges

  thomas bailey aldrich (1875). “cloth of gold and other poems”, p.114

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• 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

  Naps, Lectures, Visitors

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.3045, e-artnow

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• Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity.

  Djuna Barnes

  Demand, Guilty, Immunity

  1936 Doctor. Night wood, ch.5.

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• Sleep and death, two twins of winged race,
  Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.

  Alexander Pope

  Race, Two, Pace

  Alexander Pope (1967). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.346, Lulu.com

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• The world of sleep has an existence of its own.

  Victor Hugo

  World, Existence

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.5084, Delphi Classics

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• God gave us sleep to remind us we are not him.

  Charles Spurgeon

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• I'm in favor of approaching both the night and the day with intention.

  Robert Moss

  Night, Favors, Intention

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• Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Life, Happiness

  Metropolitan Life (1978) p. 101

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