"Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon drop off.
More by Friedrich Nietzsche
“Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.”
“When we stand the truth on its head we generally fail to notice that our head is not standing where it should be standing either.”
“Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.”
More on Sleep
“Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?”
“The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness”
“What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.”
More on Rest
“I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.”
“On your eyelids crown the god of sleep,Charming your blood with pleasing heaviness,Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleepAs is the difference betwixt day and nightThe hour before the heavenly-harness'd teamBegins his golden progress in the east.”
“A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.”