Slumber Quotes

• Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Honey, Dew

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 230

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• To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

  Walter Scott

  Good Night, Goodnight, Dream

  Sir Walter Scott (1826). “The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Etc”, p.82

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• We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Wind, Dull

  Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Short Stories”, p.374, Bottletree Books LLC

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• O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Insomnia, Nurse

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 5

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• A thought once awakened does not again slumber.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Doe, Awakened, Stature

  Thomas Carlyle (1841). “On Heroes, Hero-Worship,&the Heroic in History. Six Lectures. Reported with emendations and additions”, p.34

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• Over my slumbers your loving watch keep; Rock me to sleep, mother; rock me to sleep.

  Liz Chase

  Daughter, Mother, Sleep

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• If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect on what's come before.

  Mitchell Burgess

  Summer, Mother, Spring

  "Northern Exposure (Thanksgiving)". TV Series, November 23, 1992.

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• Tis the voice of the sluggard I heard him complain,You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again.

  Isaac Watts

  Voice, Complaining, Heard

  'The Sluggard'

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• Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

  Bill Cosby

  Fake People, Sleep, Eye

  Twitter post from Nov 05, 2009

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• In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Men, Profound

  Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Best of Poe”, p.70, Prestwick House Inc

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• It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

  John Steinbeck

  Life, Good Morning, Adversity

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.180, Penguin

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• Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour

  Walter de La Mare

  Lovely, Looks, Lasts

  Motley and Other Poems (1918) "Fare Well"

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• O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Insomnia, Care

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 4, sc. 5, l. 22

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• The older you get, the few slumber parties there are, and I hate that. I liked slumber parties. What happened to them?

  Drew Barrymore

  Hate, Party, Happened

  "Why Drew Kicks Butt". Interview with Jennifer Kasle Furmaniak, www.cosmopolitan.com. July 16, 2003.

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• Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Science, Men, Thinking

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.20

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• Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Love, Life, Heart

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2016). “Nathaniel Hawthorne: Collected Novels: Scarlet Letter / House of Seven Gables / Blithedale Romance / Fanshawe / Marble Faun: Library of America #10”, p.343, Library of America

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• All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

  William C. Bryant

  Death, Dying, Tribes

  William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”

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• Yes, because a vampire slumber party is the pinnacle of safety conscious behavior.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Party, Safety, Vampire

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

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• To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

  Ernst Otto Fischer

  Dream, Literature, Moral

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• For the first time in your conscious memory; for the first time in fact, since your were a baby; a single tear, full and warm, rolled down your right cheek and you fell into a very deep and entirely dreamless slumber.

  Dave Sim

  Dream, Baby, Time

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• Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends.

  Michael Jackson

  Brother, Children, Party

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• I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit.

  Lisa Whelchel

  Mom, Party, Parenting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.

  Vaclav Havel

  Faith, Hero, Events

  "Disturbing the Peace". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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• Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Change, Father, Progress

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1905). “Autobiographical and political”

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• I have these slumber parties with my father [Steve Tyler], and when we can't sleep we stay up all night trading beauty tips. He knows all about the good creams and masks.

  Liv Tyler

  Father, Party, Sleep

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