Quotes on Sleep

What we need to question is bricks, concrete, glass, our table manners, our utensils, our tools, the way we spend our time, our rhythms. To question that which seems to have ceased forever to astonish us. We live, true, we breathe, true; we walk, we go downstairs, we sit at a table in order to eat, we lie down on a bed on order to sleep. How? Where? When? Why? Describe your street. Describe another. Compare.

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem

Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both.

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

This sleep is sound indeed; this is a sleep_x000D_ _x000D_ That from this golden rigol hath divorc'd_x000D_ _x000D_ So many English kings.

The only time I waste is time I spend doing something that, in my gut, I know I shouldn't. If I choose to spend time playing video games or sleeping in, then it's time well spent, because I chose to do it. I did it for a reason - to relax, to decompress or to feel good, and that was what I wanted to do.

Sleep is extremely important to me - I need to rest and recover in order for the training I do to be absorbed by my body.

Nights are not just for sleep.

Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.

O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse.

Ultimately, nothing should be more important to investors than the ability to sleep soundly at night.

He who wears unclean garments, has dirty teeth, is a glutton, speaks unkindly and sleeps after sunrise - although he may be the greatest personality - will lose the favour of Lakshmi.

Sleep's the only medicine that gives ease.