Sleep Quotes - Page 39

• For there is nothing quite so terror-inducing as the loss of sleep. It creates phantoms and doubts, causes one to questions one's own abilities and judgement, and, over time, dismantles, from within, the body.

  Charlie Huston

  Loss, Judgement, Doubt

  Charlie Huston (2010). “Sleepless”, p.155, Hachette UK

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• Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

  Plato

  Work, Soul, Body

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.321

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• Last night you left me and slept your own deep sleep. Tonight you turn and turn. I say, 'You and I will be together till the Universe dissolves.' You mumble back things you thought of when you were drunk.

  Rumi

  Past, Night, Drunk

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.99, Lulu.com

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• I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Love, Men, Wish

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• One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

  John Donne

  Death, Past, Dies

  Holy Sonnets no. 6 (1609)

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• Why would a married couple that lives together every day need to date each other? It's precisely because they live and sleep together.

  William J Doherty

  Marriage, Couple, Together

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• If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep.

  Henry Adams

  Strength, Devil, May

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• The more I think about it, the more there is to be said for the sloth. He sleeps fifteen to eighteen hours a day and is known to have taken forty-eight days to travel four miles. He hangs in the trees after he's dead. But he lives longer than the cheetah.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Taken, Thinking

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• There's a lot of pain in my heart because what I accomplished was second to none. I'm not losing any sleep, but I do pay attention every year at this time.

  Bob Hayes

  Pain, Heart, Years

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• The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep.

  Jacques Maritain

  Together, Awakening, Poet

  Quoted in Robert Fitzgerald (ed) Enlarging the Change (1985).

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• To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Bed, Care, Packs

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1856). “Wise-saws: Or, Sam Slick in Search of a Wife”, p.203

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• A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he is actuated by pure love. Who can predict his comings and goings? His business calls him out at all hours, even when doctors sleep.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Business, Philosophy

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.300, Penguin

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• It is time now for us to rise from sleep.

  Benedict of Nursia

  Time

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• Sometimes if I can't sleep and I am up in the night, I will start researching things - it could be an image I've seen, or a book I am reading.

  Georgina Chapman

  Reading, Book, Night

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• Outside are the storms and strangers: we — Oh, close, safe, warm sleep I and she, — I and she!

  Robert Browning

  Love, Storm, Safe

  "The Complete Works of Robert Browning: Volume XV, with Variant Readings and Annotations".

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• The dead they sleep a long, long sleep; The dead they rest, and their rest is deep; The dead have peace, but the living weep.

  Samuel Hoffenstein

  Life, Peace, Long

  Samuel Hoffenstein (1954). “Complete Poetry”

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• I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.

  John Masefield

  Life, Dream, Sweet

  'Sea Fever' (1902)

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• New every morning is the love Our waking and uprising prove, Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life and power and thought.

  John Keble

  Life, Morning, Power

  John Keble, “Morning”

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• A Morning Prayer The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man; help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces, let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day. Bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Morning, Business, Laughter

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley (1925). “The works of Robert Louis Stevenson”

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• Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams Beside a pumice isle in Baiæ's bay, And saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering within the wave's intenser day, All overgrown with azure moss and flowers So sweet, the sense faints picturing them.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Summer, Dream, Sweet

  'Ode to the West Wind' (1819) l. 29

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• What is our death but a night's sleep? For as through sleep all weariness and faintness pass away and cease, and the powers of the spirit come back again, so that in the morning we arise fresh and strong and joyous; so at the Last Day we shall rise again as if we had only slept a night, and shall be fresh and strong.

  Martin Luther

  Death, Morning, Strong

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" edited by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 178), 1895.

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• Playing for Billy Martin is like being married to him. Right now, we're all sleeping on the couch.

  Matt Keough

  Sports, Psychology, Married

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• Nagasaki destroyed by the magic of science is the nearest man has yet approached to the realization of dreams that even during the safe immobility of sleep are accustomed to develop into nightmares of anxiety.

  J. G. Ballard

  Dream, Men, Anxiety

  J. G. Ballard (2014). “The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard”, p.246, Holt Paperbacks

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• They tell me: If you see a slave sleeping, do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom. I tell them: If you see a slave sleeping, wake him and explain to him freedom.

  Khalil Gibran

  Dream, Freedom, Slave

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Dream, Blue, Soldier

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.186, 谷月社

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