Quotes about Sleep
Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill.
— Anne Frank
I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this.
— Anne Lamott
Asleep in lap of legends old.
— John Keats
Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may findThee sitting careless on a granary floor,Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,Drows'd with the fume of poppies while thy hookSpares the next swath and all its twined flowers.
— John Keats
Every time we go to sleep, it's a rehearsal of the day when our eyes will ultimately close and we wake up on the side of eternity.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
The wicked stepmother, which is the ego, can put the Sleeping Beauty or Christ within us to sleep, but she can never destroy it. What is created by God is indestructible.
— Marianne Williamson
Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality
— Mark Twain
Nothing is what rocks dream about
— Aristotle
How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.
— John Milton
Soon as midnight brought on the dusky hour friendliest to sleep and silence.
— John Milton
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.
— John Milton
Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day.
— John Piper