Quotes about sleep

"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."

Bachelard, Gaston on sleep
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"Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations."

Barnes, Djuna on sleep   

"There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act. We surrender to sleep, but in the way that the master entrusts himself to the slave who serves him."

Blanchot, Maurice on sleep   

"We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers."

Browne, Sir Thomas on sleep   

"Sleep hath its own world, and a wide realm of wild reality. And dreams in their development have breath, and tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy."

Byron, Lord on sleep
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"Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep: it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; 'Tis meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. 'Tis the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap; and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise-man even. There is only one thing that I dislike in sleep; 'Tis that it resembles death; there's very little difference between a man in his first sleep, and a man in his last sleep."

Cervantes, Miguel De on sleep   

"Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on sleep   

"I don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day."

Evangelista, Linda on sleep   

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

Franklin, Benjamin on sleep
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"Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind."

Golding, William on sleep
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"We are not hypocrites in our sleep."

Hazlitt, William on sleep   

"Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe."

Heraclitus on sleep   

"I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius."

Kierkegaard, Søren on sleep
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"He who sleeps half a day has won half a life."

Kraus, Karl on sleep
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"Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction."

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De on sleep   

"And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created."

Lawrence, D. H. on sleep
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"The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the I, under another form, continues the task of existence."

Nerval, Gerard De on sleep   

"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 on sleep   

"Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool."

Proverb, English on sleep   

"No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting."

Reagan, Ronald on sleep   

"A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures."

Shaw, George Bernard on sleep   

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"Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low."

Sidney, Sir Philip on sleep
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"The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife; and these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them, and such as it is to be of these more or less I am, and of these one and all I weave the song of myself."

Whitman, Walt on sleep
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"Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear, your head like the golden-rod, and we will go sailing away from here to the beautiful land of Nod."

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler on sleep   

"Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life."

Woolf, Virginia on sleep