Sleep Quotes - Page 6

• I'd fallen asleep thinking I was much too tired to go on working and if I went on working, I'd lose it. I'd get a better hold of it in the morning; feel stronger. But I looked and looked at it and it seemed to me there was nothing to do.

  Milton Resnick

  Morning, Tired, Thinking

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• Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.

  Claude Monet

  Pigs, Devil, Bed

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• Sleeping in a bed -- it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical.

  Rose Macaulay

  Choices, Bed, Done

  Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”

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• Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?

  Wilfred Owen

  Clay, Toil, Earth

  'Greater Love' (written 1917)

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• I still don't know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.

  Claude Monet

  Tomorrow, Stills, Knows

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• For next to Death is Sleepe to be compared;
  Therefore his house is unto his annext:
  Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both betwext.

  Edmund Spenser

  House, Next, Gates

  Edmund Spenser (1866). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: With a Memoir”, p.12

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• The silence that is in the starry sky, / The sleep that is among the lonely hills.

  William Wordsworth

  Lonely, Sky, Silence

  'Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle' (1807)

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• Cats sleep in a state of total abandon, and I find that state very interesting in people as well.

  Mary Beth McKenzie

  Cat, People, Interesting

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• I love to write out of doors and sleep out of doors, too. If I sleep under the open sky it becomes part of the writing experience, part of my insulation from the world.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Writing, Doors, Sky

  Margaret Bourke-White (2016). “Portrait of Myself”, p.330, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• God bless the man who first invented sleep!" So Sancho Panza said and so say I; And bless him, also, that he didn't keep His great discovery to himself, nor try To make it, as the lucky fellow might A close monopoly by patent-right.

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Men, Discovery, Trying

  John Godfrey Saxe (1860). “The Money-king: And Other Poems”, p.53

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• I can not be mistaken - what I say and do is historical.I follow my life with the precision and security of a sleep walker

  Adolf Hitler

  Historical, Precision, Walkers

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• Be sure they sleep not whom God needs.

  Robert Browning

  Needs

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.18, Wordsworth Editions

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• God bless the man who first invented sleep!" So Sancho Panza said, and so say I.

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Men, Firsts, He Man

  John Godfrey Saxe (1864). “Poems”, p.184

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• He that sleeps feels not the tooth-ache

  William Shakespeare

  Teeth, Ache, Feels

  'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 5, sc. 4, l. [176]

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• In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Love, Motivational, Dream

  Luigi Pirandello (1962). “To clothe the naked: and two other plays”

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• Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Insomnia, Joy

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.64, Lulu Press, Inc

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

  Ellen Goodman

  Good Morning, Insomnia, People

  Ellen Goodman (1986). “Close to Home”, Fawcett Books

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• Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

  Lord Byron

  Death, Men, Dying

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.23, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success ... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

  Nikola Tesla

  Motivational, Success, Heart

  "Marconi and Tesla: Pioneers of Radio Communication" by Tim O'Shei, (p. 5), 2008.

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• I've had insomnia since I was five years old. I just don't require much sleep. I'm never tired.

  Nile Rodgers

  Tired, Insomnia, Years

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

  Albert Camus

  Insomnia, People, Statistics

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

  Homer

  Too Much, Concerned, Bad Things

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• Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Dream, Genius, Poet

  "The Temptation to Exist". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1956.

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

  Evan Davis

  Inspirational, Funny, Nice

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