Sleep Quotes - Page 8

• I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

  Thomas Jefferson

  God, Country, War

  Notes on the State of Virginia, query 18 (1781 - 1785)

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• I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

  Jack London

  Atoms, Writing Words, London

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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• To travel like a bird, lightly to view | Deserts where stone gods founder in the sand, | Ocean embraced in a white sleep with land; | To escape time, always to start anew... | Hooded by a dark sense of destination... | Travelers, we're fabric of the road we go; We settle, but like feathers on time's flow.

  Cecil Day-Lewis

  Ocean, Dark, White

  Cecil Day Lewis (1992). “The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis”, p.325, Stanford University Press

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• 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

  Grace, Soul, Inward

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.68

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• there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody's asleep. I say, I know that you're there, so don't be sad. then I put him back, but he's singing a little in there, I haven't quite let him die and we sleep together like that with our secret pact and it's nice enough to make a man weep, but I don't weep, do you?

  Charles Bukowski

  Clever, Nice, Heart

  Charles Bukowski (2016). “On Love”, p.207, Canongate Books

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• What hath night to do with sleep?

  John Milton

  Night, Insomnia

  'Comus' (1637) l. 122

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• I hate a mystery. I would have let the identity of the Commander’s successor remain a secret, as I have for fifteen years, but tonight’s opportunity was too tempting. With eight drunken Generals sleeping it off, I could have danced on their beds without waking them." - Valek

  Maria V. Snyder

  Hate, Opportunity, Eight

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.192, Harlequin

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• On eyes that watch as well as eyes that weep
  Descends the solemn mystery of sleep,
  Toiling and climbing to the very close,
  The weary Body, longing for repose,
  On the gained level of the day's ascent,
  Halts for the night and pitches there its tent.

  Abraham Coles

  Eye, Night, Climbing

  Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.48

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• When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room.

  Karl Kraus

  Believe, Insomnia, Voice

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose.

  John Fletcher

  Brother, Care, Woe

  'Valentinian' (performed c.1610-14) act 5, sc. 7 'Song'

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

  Bill Watterson

  Summer, Light, Bed

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• What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? Young son, it argues a distemper'd head So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed: Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie; But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Lying, Eye

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.1019, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied with intervals of insensibility; and some late philosophers have extended the empire of sleep over the vegetable world.

  Samuel Johnson

  Animal, Vegetables, World

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Girl, Crazy

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• Death-counterfeiting sleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Death

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1611

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• Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

  William Butler Yeats

  Twenties, Lasts, Nightmare

  "The Second Coming" l. 18 (1921)

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• Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Opiates, Lovers, Forget

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.513, Simon and Schuster

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• On some nights, he has nowhere to sleep, on others he suffers from insomnia. "That's just how it is," thinks the warrior. "I was the one who chose to walk this path."

  Paulo Coelho

  Warrior, Night, Insomnia

  "The Manual of the Warrior of Light". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1997.

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• I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.

  Walter Reisch

  Hate, Littles, I Hate

  "Fictional character: Count Saknussem". "Journey to the Center of the Earth", www.imdb.com. 1959.

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• I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

  George Farquhar

  Food, Beer, Alcohol

  'The Beaux' Stratagem' (1707) act 1, sc. 1

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• Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound.

  William Shakespeare

  Insomnia, Men, Brain

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1853). “The Works of William Shakespeare: Comprising His Dramatic and Poetical Works, Complete”, p.235

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• A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Littles, Little Love

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2009). “The Breaking Point: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.267, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream—For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause, there's the respect, That makes calamity of so long life

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dream, Giving

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• Don't wait until you die to learn the warrior's way. Do it now, each night, just before you drift off to sleep. As you review your day, consider these two questions of courage and love. Learn from each day, so that each day you can show a little more courage and a little more love. Then, as incidents occur, you may rise to the occasion and look back at the end of your life and feel good about the way you lived.

  Dan Millman

  Courage, Warrior, Night

  Dan Millman (1992). “No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life”, p.293, H J Kramer

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• Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife, the 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

  Cutting, Years, Knives

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