| 48 sleep Quotes
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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 Quotes |
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“I wasn’t really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness.”
Enya Quotes |
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“Sleep is like the unicorn - it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any”
Dalai Lama Quotes |
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“There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep”
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“Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all”
Heinrich Heine Quotes |
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“Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.”
Ambrose Bierce Quotes |
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“What means this heaviness that hangs upon me?
This lethargy that creeps through all my senses?
Nature, oppress'd and harrass'd out with care,
Sinks down to rest.”
Joseph Addison Quotes Source: Cato (act V, sc. 1)
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“What probing deep
Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?”
Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quotes Source: Human Ignorance
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“But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait
At the portcullis, at thy castle gate,
Longing to see the charmed door of dreams
Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!”
Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quotes Source: Invocation to Sleep
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“Come to me now! O, come! benignest sleep!
And fold me up, as evening doth a flower,
From my vain self, and vain things which have power
Upon my soul to make me smile or weep.
And when thou comest, oh, like Death be deep.”
Patrick Proctor Alexander Quotes Source: Sleep, appeared in the "Spectator"
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“How happy he whose toil
Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd
A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain
Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams.
His pow'rs the most voluptuously dissolve
In soft repose; on him the balmy dews
Of Sleep with double nutriment descend.”
John Armstrong Quotes Source: The Art of Preserving Health (bk. III, l. 385)
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“When the sheep are in the fauld, and a' the kye at hame,
And all the weary world to sleep are gane.”
Lady Ann Barnard Quotes Source: Auld Robin Gray
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“Still believe that ever round you
Spirits float who watch and wait;
Nor forget the twain who found you
Sleeping nigh the Golden Gate.”
Sir Walter Besant and J. Rice Quotes Source: Case of Mr. Lucraft and other Tales (p. 92), (ed. 1877)
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“The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or
much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to
sleep.”
Bible Quotes Source: Ecclesiastes (ch. V, v. 12)
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“Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and
drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.”
Bible Quotes Source: Proverbs (ch. XXIII, v. 20-21)
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“It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the
bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.”
Bible Quotes Source: Psalms (ch. CXXVII, v. 2)
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“Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions:
How he sware unto the Lord, and vowed unto the mighty God of
Jacob;
Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up
into my bed;
I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,
Until I find a place for the Lord, an habitation for the mighty
God of Jacob.”
Bible Quotes Source: Psalms (ch. CXXXII, v. 1-5)
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“I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord,
only makest me dwell in safety.”
Bible Quotes Source: Psalms (ch. IV, v. 8)
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“Since the Brother of Death daily haunts us with dying mementoes.”
Sir Thomas Browne Quotes Source: Hydriotaphia
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“Sleep is a death, O make me try,
By sleeping, what it is to die:
And as gently lay my head
On my grave, as now my bed.”
Sir Thomas Browne Quotes Source: Religio Medici (pt. II, sec. XII)
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“How he sleepeth! having drunken
Weary childhood's mandragore,
From his pretty eyes have sunken
Pleasures to make room for more--
Sleeping near the withered nosegay which he pulled the day
before.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes Source: A Child Asleep
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“Of all the thoughts of God that are
Borne inward unto souls afar,
Along the Psalmist's music deep,
Now tell me if that any is.
For gift or grace, surpassing this--
"He giveth His beloved sleep."”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes Source: The Sleep
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“Sleep on, Baby, on the floor,
Tired of all the playing,
Sleep with smile the sweeter for
That you dropped away in!
On your curls' full roundness stand
Golden lights serenely--
One cheek, pushed out by the hand,
Folds the dimple inly.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes Source: Sleeping and Watching
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“Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes Source: Sleeping and Watching
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“Sleep hath its own world,
A boundary between the things misnamed
Death and existence: 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.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: The Dream (st. 1)
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