Sleep Quotes

There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Preserve me from unseasonable and immoderate sleep.

Life is a dream; when we sleep we are awake, and when awake we sleep.

He that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.

Alexander declared, that nothing convinced him that he was not a Divinity, but his not being able to live without sleep.

No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day.

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

It would be an injury to the memory of Boerhaave, not to mention what was related by himself to one of his friends, that when he lay whole days and nights without sleep, he found no method of diverting his thoughts so effectual, as meditation upon his studies, and that he often relieved and mitigated […]

One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor’s maid? All that would go ill with good sleep.

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.