#Sleep Quotes

“Sleep knits up the raveled sleeve of care.”

“For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.”

“You lack the season of all natures, sleep.”

“To bed, to bed; sleep kill those pretty eyes,And give as soft attachment to thy senses,As infants empty of all thought.”

“Downy sleep, death's counterfeit.”

“Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more!Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep,Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care,The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,Chief nourisher in life's feast...”

“Thy best of rest is sleep, And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st Thy death, which is no more.”

“Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast!Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest.”

“O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?”

“Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound.”

“Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose to the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, and in the calmest and most stillest night, with all appliances and means to boot, deny it to a king?”

“Death-counterfeiting sleep.”

“Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.”

“This sleep is sound indeed; this is a sleepThat from this golden rigol hath divorc'dSo many English kings.”

“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.”

“Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream—For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause, there's the respect, That makes calamity of so long life”

“Still it cried ‘Sleep no more!’ to all the house: ‘Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more,—Macbeth shall sleep no more!”

“Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.”

“And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company.”

“What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts.”

“O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night.”

“O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse.”

“Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder.”

“If I didn't wake up I'd still be sleeping”

“Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.”

“What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? Young son, it argues a distemper'd head So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed: Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie; But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.”

“I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful.”

“You must sleep sometime between lunch and dinner, and no halfway measures. Take off your clothes and get into bed. That's what I always do.”

“Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye.”

“To sleep perchance to dream”

“The self persists like a dying star, In sleep, afraid.”

“Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber.”

“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”

“The world of sleep has an existence of its own.”

“The female that loves unrequited sleeps,And the male that loves unrequited sleeps,The head of the money-maker that plotted all day sleeps,And the enraged and treacherous dispositions, all, all sleep.”

“Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.”

“Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.”

“Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?”

“Sleep comes more easily than it returns.”

“Sleep! The most beautiful experience in life. Except drink.”

“I certainly do not drink all the time. I have to sleep you know.”

“Oh, insomnia! Ah, well, I know a good cure for it... Get plenty of sleep.”

“Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.”

“Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.”

“The only time I have problems is when I sleep.”

“Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.”

“I've realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night's sleep.”

“Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.”

“What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.”

“You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.”