SLEEP QUOTES VIII

quotations about sleep

But Sleep is kindly, even in his tricks; and the poets have treated him with proper reverence. According to the ancient mythologists, he had even one of the Graces to wife.

LEIGH HUNT

The Indicator, January 12, 1820


Too much sleep makes a person heavy and stupid, and those who wish to become useful to the community in their journey through life, must not take upon their backs much useless slumber.

E. L. BLANCHARD

Flights of Fancy: A Medley of Quips and Cranks in Prose and Verse


I love sleep. My life has a tendency to fall apart when I'm awake.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

attributed, Hunting for Hemingway

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You are now in a deep sleep
(In-store promises)
Endless possibilities
A life of ease
A life cocooned in a routine of food
(Stimulus and response!)
Softness is a thing called comfort
(It doesn't cost much to keep in touch)
We never forget you have a choice
Possibilities in store
A taste of paradise
Success on a plate for you
Endless promises

THIS HEAT

"Sleep"


Through the ghoul-guarded gateways of slumber,
Past the wan-mooned abysses of night,
I have lived o'er my lives without number,
I have sounded all things with my sight.

H. P. LOVECRAFT

"Nemesis"


That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

ALDOUS HUXLEY

Themes and Variations

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It is a delicious moment, certainly, that of being well nestled in bed, and feeling that yon shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come, not past; the limbs have just been tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful; the labor of the day is gone. A gentle failure of the perceptions creeps over you; the spirit of consciousness disengages itself once more, and with a slow and hushing degrees, like a mother detaching her hand from that of a sleeping child, the wind seems to have a balmy lid closing over it, like the eye--it is closed--the mysterious spirit has gone to take its airy rounds.

LEIGH HUNT

The Indicator, January 12, 1820


Close your eyes now and kiss me
And whisper you'll miss me
Sleep tight
Sleep well
Sleep warm

DEAN MARTIN

"Sleep Warm"


Sleep is a nightly reminder that we are beholden to our bodies, that we are our bodies, and that one day we will die. It puts us at the wrong end of the mind-body dualism that has, from Plato through Descartes, raised mind over body. It's a blow to our dignity, a reminder ... that we are (to borrow a phrase from Shakespeare) "stinkingly dependent."

GAYLE GREENE

Insomniac


Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.

HERACLITUS

Fragments

Tags: Heraclitus


I try to be a good person at all times. I try to be nice to my co-workers and to my boss. I try, but without sleep, it's hard.

ROGER BLUHM

"Sleep is needed more than ever", Dodge City Daily Globe, August 24, 2017


Excessive proneness to sleep is a sign of decay and waste of brain.

ANONYMOUS

Harper's Magazine, October 1866


To sleep is to die.

DAVID GEMMELL

Lord of the Silver Bow


The number one cause of people not getting enough sleep, is just not dedicating enough time to get the sleep.

JASON HAUSMANN

"Sleep Deprivation in adults is more common than thought"


Some say that gleams of a remoter world
Visit the soul in sleep -- that death is slumber,
And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber
Of those who wake and live.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

"Mont Blanc"

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Let youth cherish sleep, the happiest of earthly boons, while yet it is at their command; for there cometh the day to all, when neither the voice of the lute nor the bird shall bring back the sweet slumbers that fell on their young eyes as unbidden as the dews.

EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

attributed, The Book of Humour, Wit & Wisdom: A Manual of Table-talk

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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

A Stone, a Leaf, a Door: Poems


Sleep is a natural reset button for our brain and body.

HANSA VENKATESWARAN

"Do you wake up looking tired or with dull skin? Here's what your morning face says about your health", Economic Times, August 29, 2017


Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk

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Welcome is sleep, more welcome the sleep of stone
Whilst crime and shame continue in the land;
My happy fortune, not to see or hear;
Waken me not--in mercy, whisper low.

MICHELANGELO

Walks in Florence