Quotes about Sleep
Oh, sleep that dreams, and dream that never tires, press from the petals of the lotus flower something of this to keep, the essence of an hour.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Goodnight, child. This is a damn shame. Let's drop it out of the picture. He gave her two lines of hospital patter to go to sleep on. So many people are going to love you and it might be nice to meet your first love all intact, emotionally too. That's an old-fashioned idea, isn't it?
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Novissima hora est; and I fain would sleep. The pain has weaned me... Into Thy hands, O Lord, into Thy hands...
— John Henry Newman
Persons in whom a crisis takes place pass the night preceding the paroxysm uncomfortably, but the succeeding night generally more comfortably.
— Hippocrates
He was so pale the freckles stood out on his face the way they did when he was upset or hadn't slept. She thought they might be telling her something if she could only understand the language of freckles.
— Alice Hoffman
I never needed much sleep. But I've always said that is a function of do you enjoy life.
— Donald Trump
It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
— CS Lewis
There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day.
— Ernest Hemingway
A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life.
— John Milton
Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams.
— St. Basil
Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.
— Anonymous
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves.
— Anonymous