Reveille, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted.
Sleep Quotes
It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.
When men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large white flakes falling on the city brown, Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying, Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town; Deadening, muffling, stifling its murmurs failing; Lazily and incessantly floating down and down: Silently sifting and veiling road, roof and railing; Hiding […]
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
Sleep is pain’s easiest salve, and doth fulfill all the offices of death, except to kill.
We term sleep a death… by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.
Come, blessed Darkness, come and bring thy balm For eyes grown weary of the garish day! Come with thy soft, slow steps, thy garments grey, Thy veiling shadows, bearing in thy palm The poppy-seeds of slumber, deep and calm.
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.
Sleep, Silence’s child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings Indifferent host to shepherds and kings;Sole comforter to minds with grief opprest.
