Sleep Quotes

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Sleep… Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death.

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. Don’t go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the door sill, where two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don’t go back to sleep.

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing, and dancing sooner than war.

A rat’s private life, a rat’s thoughts and conversation, may be far more wholesome than a rabbit’s. Yet a thousand rabbits might play on the floor of my bedroom all night, and be hanged to them, while if a single rat so much as scratched beneath the flooring I would lose all sleep.

While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.

There she encountered Sleep, the brother of Death.

No good work is undertaken or done with wise reflection. It must all happen in a half-sleep.

God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed.