Sleep Quotes - Page 9

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

  Karl Kraus

  Life, Half, Can't Sleep

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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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• Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.

  William Wordsworth

  Inspirational, Baby, Clouds

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 58 (1807)

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• When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beautiful, Dream, Retirement

  The Countess Kathleen (1892) "When You Are Old"

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• When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.

  Rumi

  Love, Spiritual, Night

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.147, Penguin UK

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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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• 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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• 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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• I studied, I met with medical doctors, scientists, and I’m here to tell you that the way to a more productive, more inspired, more joyful life is: getting enough sleep.

  Arianna Huffington

  Motivation, Inspiration, Doctors

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• It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Insomnia, Men, Different

  The Crack-up 'Sleeping and Walking'

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• We sleep, allowing gravity to hold us, allowing Earth - our larger body - to recalibrate our neurons, composting the keen encounters of our waking hours , stirring them back, as dreams, into the sleeping substance of our muscles.

  David Abram

  Dream, Substance, Neurons

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• Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more!
  Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep,
  Sleep that knits up the ravell'd 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

  Hurt, Insomnia, Voice

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 36

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• 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

  Dream, Deities, Toil

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• The timely dew of sleep Now falling with soft slumb'rous weight inclines Our eyelids.

  John Milton

  Fall, Dew, Weight

  John Milton (1824). “The poetical works of John Milton: with notes of various authors, principally from the editions of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster and Thomas Warton ; to which is prefixed Newton's life of Milton”, p.263

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• The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

  E. M. Forster

  Life, Food, Enlightenment

  "Aspects of the Novel".

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

  Henry Channon

  Insomnia, House, Library

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• A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

  Honore de Balzac

  Inspirational, Good Morning, Marriage

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• I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Years, Bed, Needs

  Decline and Fall (1928) pt. 2, ch. 3

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• To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dream, Halloween

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

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• To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Heart, Hamlet And Ophelia

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

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• You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

  Dr. Seuss

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• 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

  Beautiful, Night, Insomnia

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.197, Penguin

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• 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

  Human Nature, Legislature, Humans

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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• May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Stars, Dwelling, Earth

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.439, Delphi Classics

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