Quotes about Sleep
Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.
— John Donne
I'm the type of person that tries to fall back asleep in the morning just to finish a dream.
— Marilyn Monroe
Every act of life, from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner, became an effort. I hated the night when I couldn't sleep and I hated the day because it went toward night.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is one sweet lenitive at least for evils, which nature holds out; so I took it kindly at her hands, and fell asleep.
— Laurence Sterne
Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
— Victor Hugo
And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.
— DH Lawrence
leave me in peace, let me sleep one night at least without my pillow being wet with tears, my eyes burning and my head throbbing
— Anne Frank
O that our dreamings all, of sleep or wake, Would all their colours from the sunset take.
— John Keats
God gave us sleep to remind us we are not him.
— Charles Spurgeon
Every hour of every day, God is richly blessing us; both when we sleep and when we wake His mercy waits upon us.
— Charles Spurgeon