Going To Sleep Quotes

• Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up-never. That is a most gloomy thing for contemplation; it's like manure. Just as manure fertilizes the plants and so on, so the contemplation of death and the acceptance of death is very highly generative of creating life. You'll get wonderful things out of that.

  Alan Watts

  Sleep, Acceptance, Skeletons

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

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Funny, Health, Sleep

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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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• 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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• Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Anniversary, Marriage

  Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints (1966)

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• Every night for the next week, set aside ten minutes before you go to sleep. Write down three things that went well today and why they went well...Writing about why the positive events in your life happened may seem awkward at first, but please stick with it for one week. It will get easier. The odds are that you will be less depressed, happier, and addicted to this exercise six months from now.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Writing, Sleep, Exercise

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• Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Life, God

  Victor Hugo (1898). “From exile, and after the fall of the Empire”

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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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  But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Inspirational, Tattoo

  "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)

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• Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Wise, Money

  Benjamin Franklin (1821). “Essays and Letters”, p.80

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• Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Death, Sleep, Littles

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• 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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• Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Death

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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, Sleep, Night

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

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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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• 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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• Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Morning, Sleep, Insomnia

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.49, University of Georgia Press

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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, Sleep, Insomnia

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

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• If I know I have everything prepared for when I get killed by a stalker, then I can go to sleep.

  Christina Ricci

  Sleep, Killing, Prepared

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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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• A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

  Salman Rushdie

  Courage, Sleep, Names

  The Satanic Verses pt. 2 (1988)

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• Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

  Victor Hugo

  Sleep, Awake

  Victor Hugo (1898). “From exile, and after the fall of the Empire”

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• A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Plato, Lying

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• People say, 'I'm going to sleep now,' as if it were nothing. But it's really a bizarre activity. 'For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I'm going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life.

  George Carlin

  Sleep, People, Gone

  George Carlin (2007). “The Best of Brain Droppings”, p.33, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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