Sleep Quotes

Sleep is still most perfect when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other, knits the sleep, so that it takes the body and soul completely in its healing.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence,

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.

Angela Carter

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.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.

Karl Kraus

Nor will the sweetest delight of gardens afford much comfort in sleep; wherein the dullness of that sense shakes hands with delectable odours; and though in the bed of Cleopatra, can hardly with any delight raise up the ghost of a rose.

Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of

Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life, can be full of dreams; and the most common actions

Virginia Woolf

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

Heinrich Heine

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

William Golding, Pincher Martin,

When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream.

Gertrude Stein, Originally publi

Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica.

J. G. Ballard

Methought I heard a voice cry Sleep no more,Macbeth does murder sleep the innocent sleep,Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of careThe death of each day's life, sore labour's bathBalm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,Chief nourisher in life's feast.

William Shakespeare, Macbeth sai

The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Virginia Woolf

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

Heraclitus

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

Albert Camus

Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

For I've been born and I've been wed -- all of man's peril comes of bed.

C. H. Webb

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

George Orwell

Some praise the Lord for Light, The living spark;I thank God for the NightThe healing dark.

Robert William Service, Weary, f

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

Ernest Hemingway