Sleep Quotes And Sayings

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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

“There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.”
– Ovid

“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”
– Phyllis Diller

“All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.”
– Plutarch

“The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.”
– Poppy Z. Brite

“Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

“I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry. Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it’s just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and turned over, sadder still, and fumbled about for my dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on.”
– Ray Bradbury, Green Shadows, White Whale: A Novel of Ray Bradbury’s Adventures Making Moby Dick with John Huston in Ireland

“Sometimes I sit up late with my thoughts, reluctant to fall asleep and leave my thoughts alone by themselves.”
– Robert Brault

“Living is a disease from which sleep gives us relief eight hours a day.”
– S. R. N. Chamfort

“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.”
– Saint Thomas Aquinas

“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

“Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.”
– Sir William Penn

“I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That’s why I’m trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning.”
– Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I hate it when my foot falls asleep during the day, because that means it’s going to be up all night.”
– Stephen Wright

“I wonder why I don’t go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.”
– Sylvia Plath

“What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?”
– T. B. Aldrich

“Sleep. To lie down and shut out the noise, the fear, the unceasing misery.”
– Tad Williams

“Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!”
– Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.”
– Thomas Dekker

“In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.”
– Thomas Wolfe

“Come, mild and magnificent Sleep, and let your tides flow through the nation. Oh, daughter of unmemoried desire, sister of Death, and my stern comrade, Loneliness, bringer of peace and dark forgetfulness, healer and redeemer, dear enchantress, hear us: come to us through the fields of night, over the plains and rivers of the everlasting earth, bringing to the huge vexed substance of this world and to all the fury, pain, and madness of our lives the merciful anodyne of your redemption. Seal up the porches of our memory, tenderly, gently, steal our lives away from us, blot out the vision of lost love, lost days, and all our ancient hungers, great Transformer, heal us!”
– Thomas Wolfe

“I count it as a certainty that in paradise, everyone naps.”
– Tom Hodgkinson

“Sleep is the gift of many spiders t webs tie down the sleepers easy.”
– Unknown

“Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine.”
– Unknown

“Sleeping is not time wasting.”
– Unknown

“The best cure for insomnia is a Monday morning.”
– Unknown

“There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.”
– Unknown

“There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock.”
– Unknown

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