How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep! 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 […]
Sleep Quotes
The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Sleep thou, and I will wind thee in my arms. (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
I’ll sleep when I’m dead.
It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back.
I don’t smoke. I just don’t sleep, man, that’s the trouble. I gotta sleep sometime… why sleep, man? I might miss a party.
I awoke you from your sleep because I saw that you were having a nightmare. And now you are cross and say to me: “What are we supposed to do now? Everything is still night!” You ingrates! You should go to sleep again and dream better.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
The amount of sleep required by the average person is about five minutes more.
Old women snore violently. They are like bodies into which bizarre animals have crept at night; the animals are vicious, bawdy, noisy. How they snore! There is no shame to their snoring. Old women turn into old men.
