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Quotes About Sleep

Our dreams are a second life.
~ Gerard de Nerval
In an interstellar burst, I am back to save the universe. In a deep deep sleep of the innocent, I am born again. In a fast German car, I'm amazed that I survived, An airbag saved my life...
~ Thom Yorke
Life is a sandwich of activity between two periods of bed-wetting.
~ Padgett Powell
I never needed much sleep. But I've always said that is a function of do you enjoy life.
~ Donald Trump
We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
~ Zhuangzi
It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
~ C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair
Life death all does end and each day dies with sleep.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.
~ Edwin Arnold
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
The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.
~ Fernando Pessoa
A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life.
~ John Milton
Every new experience is unusual. The rest of life is just sleep and committee meetings.
~ John Twelve Hawks
When there is a psyche-disrupting event in your life, it can prevent you from getting the long blocks of sleep at night that are so important to healthy aging.
~ Mehmet Oz
I fell asleep and dreamed that life was only Happiness. I woke and discovered that life was Duty. I did my Duty and discovered that life was Happiness.
~ Paulo Coelho
Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.
~ William Shakespeare
Having, and seeing, your dreams is very important, and so is chasing those dreams. You see dreams when you sleep, and as you chase your dreams, it keeps you awake. So it's important to stay awake.
~ Sachin Tendulkar
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.
~ Saint Basil
We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.
~ Thomas Browne
Let's begin by taking a smallish nap or two.
~ A. A. Milne
Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.
~ Roger Zelazny
And nightly under the simple stars As I rode to sleep the owls were bearing the farm away All the moon long I heard, blessed among stables, the nightjars Flashing into the dark.
~ Dylan Thomas
Or a nacreous sleep among soft particles and charms
~ Dylan Thomas
Lie still, sleep becalmed, hide the mouth in the throat, or we shall obey, and ride with you through the drowned.
~ Dylan Thomas