Sleeping At Night Quotes

• Before you go to sleep, do not forget to say thanks for everything good that has happened to you in the last 24 hours.

  Roy Orbison

  Good Night, Goodnight, Sleep

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• Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.

  William Golding

  Dream, Sleep, Insomnia

  1956 Pincher Martin, ch.6.

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• A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Motivational, Happy, Death

  Codice Trivulziano 281

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

  Bill Watterson

  Summer, Sleep, Light

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

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Sleep, Mystery, Probing

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

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• Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Regret, Sleep, Insomnia

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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• The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Morning, Sleep, Night

  "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

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• Dream happy dreams. You are the only one who has ever touched my heart. It will always be yours. Sleep,my only love.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Good Night, Goodnight, Dream

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Sleep, Men, Eight

  "The Mind-Blowing Science Of Sleep" by Farnam Street, www.businessinsider.com.au. November 20, 2013.

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• Do not go gentle into that good night.

  Dylan Thomas

  Tattoo, Good Night, Goodnight

  "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" l. 16 (1952)

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• Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Wall, Sleep

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.206, Courier Corporation

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• Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.

  John Ciardi

  Business, Sleep, Insomnia

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• Consciousness: That annoying time between naps

  Steven Wright

  Sleep, Naps, Annoying

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• Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

  Jessamyn West

  Sleep, Insomnia, Desert

  Jessamyn West (1986). “Woman Said Yes: Encounters with Life and Death”, Harcourt on Demand

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• Early to bed and early to rise makes a person dull, boring, and despised.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Funny, Health, Sleep

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• Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

  William Blake

  Good Morning, Happiness, Sleep

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.167, Routledge

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• Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sleep, Insomnia, Trying

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature”, p.137, Cambridge University Press

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

  Albert Camus

  Sleep, Insomnia, People

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• Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... Without the satisfaction.

  Lynn Johnston

  Sleep, Night, Insomnia

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• I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night.

  Liam Gallagher

  Good Night, Goodnight, Past

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

  Ellen Goodman

  Good Morning, Sleep, Insomnia

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

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• The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

  Ogden Nash

  Morning, Regret, Sleep

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• For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Sleep, Depth, Needs

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1963). “NORTH TO THE ORIENT”

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• I think the best way to get a good night sleep is to work hard throughout the day. If you work hard and, of course, work out.

  William H. McRaven

  Good Night, Goodnight, Hard Work

  "The Man Who Led the Bin Laden Mission Teaches You How to Make Your Bed" by John Hendrickson, www.esquire.com. May 22, 2014.

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• We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Good Night, Dream

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 4, sc. 1, l. 148

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