Sleep Quotes

"You can't sleep your way into being a star, though. It takes much, much more. But it helps. A lot of actresses get their first chance that way."

"Sleep, sleep, beauty bright, Dreaming in the joys of night; Sleep, sleep; in thy sleep Little sorrows sit and weep."

"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."

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

"Sleep seldom visits sorrow; when it doth, it is a comforter."

"Now I know that twenty centuries of stony sleep were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, and what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"

"A lion and a lamb can lay toghether, but the lamb will get little sleep."

"I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep, I wrote in the dark"

"Sleep on, Blest pair; and O yet happiest if ye seek No happier state, and know to know no more"

"It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe."

"He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need: If thou sorrow, he will weep; If thou wake, he cannot sleep: Thus of every grief in heart He with thee does bear a part. These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe."

"The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills."

"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."

"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."

"Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep."

"One hour's sleep before midnight is better than three after it"

"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."

"If you lose your temper, your sound sleep will go, and you will have to use a tranquilizer or sleeping pills Then gradually, more white hair, wrinkles."

"There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. Homer (~700 BC), The Odyssey"

"She's just resting in her apartment. Maybe it's the start of a sickness."