Sleep Quotes

I’ll sleep when I’m dead.

Sleep she as sound as careless infancy. (The Merry Wives of Windsor)

Then Jacob woke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place.” (Genesis 28:16-17)

In sleep a king, but, waking, no such matter. (Sonnet 87)

How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? (Proverbs 6:9)  

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.

He who watches over you will not slumber. (Psalms 121:3)

It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.

And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. (Romans […]

Thou hast been called, O Sleep! The friend of woe; But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.