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Quotes About Sleep

Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast.
~ William Shakespeare
Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep, - the innocent sleep; Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast.
~ William Shakespeare
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream—For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause, there's the respect, That makes calamity of so long life
~ William Shakespeare
There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.
~ William Shakespeare
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.
~ William Shakespeare
Why should we rise because 'tis light? Did we lie down because t'was night?
~ William Shakespeare
Still it cried 'Sleep no more!' to all the house: 'Glamis hath murder'd sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more,—Macbeth shall sleep no more!
~ William Shakespeare
Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, Her ashes new-create another heir As great in admiration as herself.
~ William Shakespeare
Innocent sleep. Sleep that soothes away all our worries. Sleep that puts each day to rest. Sleep that relieves the weary laborer and heals hurt minds. Sleep, the main course in life's feast, and the most nourishing.
~ William Shakespeare
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come?
~ William Shakespeare
What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts...
~ William Shakespeare
For some must watch, while some must sleep So runs the world away
~ William Shakespeare
Noi siamo della stessa materia Di cui son fatti i sogni E la nostra piccola vita È circondata da un sonno.
~ William Shakespeare
Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both.
~ William Shakespeare
Somos de la misma sustancia que los sueños, y nuestra breve vida culmina en un dormir.
~ William Shakespeare
Thy best of rest is sleep, And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st Thy death, which is no more.
~ William Shakespeare
Não tenho dormido. Entre a ação de um ato terrível e o primeiro gesto, todo esse intervalo é como um fantasma ou um sonho odioso: O Génio e os instrumentos mortais estão nessa altura reunidos; e a condição do homem, equiparável a um pequeno reino, sofre então a natureza de uma insurreição.
~ William Shakespeare
What relish is in this? How runs the stream? Or I am mad, or else this is a dream. Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep. If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!
~ William Shakespeare
I am glad I was up so late, for that's the reason I was up so early.
~ William Shakespeare
O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . . She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomi Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep.
~ William Shakespeare
There is plenty of time to sleep in the grave
~ William Shakespeare
Sleep thou, and I will wind thee in my arms. Fairies, be gone, and be all ways away.
~ William Shakespeare
In peace and honour rest you here, my sons; Rome's readiest champions, repose you here in rest, Secure from worldly chances and mishaps! Here lurks no treason, here no envy swells, Here grow no damned grudges; here are no storms, No noise, but silence and eternal sleep: In peace and honour rest you here, my sons!
~ William Shakespeare
I talk of dreams, which are the children of an idle brain'.
~ William Shakespeare