Explore Quotes on Sleep

Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.

All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.

Valor was in Nikodemos, unquestionable, and commitment like trees to stand or night to fall.

This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society; the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, dispute and pun, the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description.

Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.

Revenge is never the best driver for a battle, but a common one.

Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace;Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul,While the stars burn, the moons increase,And the great ages onward roll. Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet. Nothing comes to thee new or strange. Sleep full of rest from head to feet;Lie still, dry dust, secure of change.

Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.

And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.

For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating.

Some of the songs come so fully, it's like they are pre-packaged. There have been a couple that came in the middle of the night. And I thought, jeez, I'll never forget that. And went back to sleep, and it was gone. You'll hear something years later that another songwriter that you respect writes, and you go, jeez, I think that was the remnants of that song that got sent to me.

I was sleeping in the woods one night after a gig we'd played somewhere, when I saw this girl appear before me. That girl was Emily. (on how he wrote "See Emily Play") "Chapter 24"-that was from the "I Ching", there was someone around who was very into that, most of the words came straight off that. "Lucifer Sam" was another one-it didn't mean much to me at the time, but then three or four months later it came to mean a lot.

I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then, "Nowhere Man" came, words and music, the whole damn thing, as I lay down...Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed sleep.

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

I was tired. I hadn't slept eight hours in two, three years. I lived on four, five hours of sleep. You can do it during a campaign because thousands are screaming for you. You're getting adrenaline shots each day. Then the campaign ends, and there are no more shots.

Up and away for life! be fleet!-_x000D__x000D_The frost-king ties my fumbling feet,_x000D__x000D_Sings in my ears, my hands are stones,_x000D__x000D_Curdles the blood to the marble bones,_x000D__x000D_Tugs at the heart-strings, numbs the sense,_x000D__x000D_And hems in life with narrowing fence._x000D__x000D_Well, in this broad bed lie and sleep,-_x000D__x000D_The punctual stars will vigil keep,-_x000D__x000D_Embalmed by purifying cold;_x000D__x000D_The winds shall sing their dead-march old,_x000D__x000D_The snow is no ignoble shroud,_x000D__x000D_The moon thy mourner, and the cloud.

Getting enough sleep can be just as important as working out.

Sufficient sleep, exercise, healthy food, friendship, and peace of mind are necessities, not luxuries.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.