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Quotes About Sleep

Untouched by morning and untouched by noon, sleep the meek members of the Resurrection, rafter of satin and roof of stone.' Emily Dickinson.
~ Kate Atkinson
If you get up at three in the morning to go to the bathroom, man, why you have to turn on that little light? Put the torch there on the nightstand.
~ Hugo Chavez
Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.
~ James M. Barrie
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.
~ John Donne
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
~ Joseph Addison
How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!
~ Mark Twain
Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.
~ Wendell Phillips
Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound.
~ William Shakespeare
The sleep of a laboring man is sweet.
~ Solomon
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
~ George Santayana
Late to bed, late to rise, makes a man unhealthy, poor, and stupid.
~ Gregor Collins
Onassis was a man who loved to walk, to walk and talk, and he was the kind of man who doesn't go to sleep at night-he talks and talks.
~ Pierre Salinger
A husband is a man who two minutes after his head touches the pillow is snoring like an overloaded omnibus.
~ Ogden Nash
It is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it; for sleep is to a man's whole nature what winding up is to a clock.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
After almost two hours of creeping around the forest, one of the jacks discovered Belen. He had fallen asleep, and the young man had literally tripped over him. So much for his reputation.
~ Maria V. Snyder
Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.
~ Mark Twain
Seven thirty in the morning is too early for a man of my standing.
~ Matt Roper
I hyperventilate opening a box of chocolates. I'm the most nervous guy in the world, a frightened little man on red alert from when I wake until I go to sleep. I was born with fear.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.
~ Erich Fromm
A man is known to be mortal by two things, Sleep and Lust.
~ George Herbert
Beware, for as you sleep, the exhausted man will be first to reach the peak.
~ Chrisse Feros
Consciousness even in my sleep changes primary colors. The features of my face melt like a wax doll in the fire. And who can consent to see in the mirror the mere face of man?
~ Czeslaw Milosz
When a man sleepes, his head is in his stomach.
~ George Herbert