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Quotes About Sleep

Dreams can only be seen with open eyes, what you see while you asleep are nightmares.
~ Amit Kalantri
Important decisions are better made after a good nights sleep
~ Steven Aitchison
With Great power comes great need to take a nap
~ Nico
With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.
~ Rick Riordan
Hidden away, the people of the streets drift into sleep induced by alcohol or agitated by despair, into dreams that carry them back to the lives that once were theirs.
~ Will Schwalbe
Shortly after we were in bed I began my story, but made it so absurd, so long, and so tiresome, that, as my intention was, I sent her to sleep, and should have gone to sleep myself - but dark plots are ever wakeful. ("The Story of Prince Barkiarokh")
~ William Beckford
England! awake! awake! awake!Jerusalem thy sister calls!Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of deathAnd close her from thy ancient walls?
~ William Blake
He had to take sleep by surprise. Preparing for bed simply alerted insomnia, brought all the busy thoughts, the renegade remorses and guilts and recriminations.
~ William Browning Spencer
Now I knowThat twenty centuries of stony sleepWere vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
~ William Butler Yeats
The first time I saw him he was cooking mushrooms for himself; the next time he was asleep under a hedge, smiling in his sleep. He was indeed always cheerful, though I thought I could see in his eyes (swift as the eyes of a rabbit, when they peered out of their wrinkled holes) a melancholy which was well-nigh a portion of their joy; the visionary melancholy of purely instinctive natures and of all animals.
~ William Butler Yeats
How sleep the brave, who sink to rest,By all their country's wishes bless'd!
~ William Collins
All that tread, The globe are but a handful to the tribes, That slumber in its bosom.
~ William Cullen Bryant
And it would be nice if the roof was a bit stronger. Then the peacocks wouldn't keep falling through. I don't mind during the day, but I hate waking up at night to find a peacock in bed with me.
~ William Dalrymple
Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.
~ William Goldman
Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.
~ William Goldman
There are four things that we know improve brain health and brain function," says Shubin Stein. "Meditation, exercise, sleep, and nutrition.
~ William Green
Meditate of Christ's coming to judgment. Surely thou wilt not easily sleep while this trumpet, that shall call all mankind to judgment, shall sound in thy ear.
~ William Gurnall
Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite
~ William Hazlitt
He nodded, sagely, at the lot of us, and yawned; then glanced at the clock. "Out you go!" he said, in friendly fashion, using the recognised formula. "I want a sleep." We rose, shook him by the hand, and went out presently into the night and the quiet of the Embankment; and so to our homes.
~ William Hope Hodgson
Although you should not let your emotional responses dictate your allocation, you do need to sleep at night, and your personal preferences are an important part of your asset class structure.
~ William J. Bernstein
Nightlight, who never slept and never dreamed, would keep nightmares, both imagined and real, away.
~ William Joyce
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain, which cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God." In
~ William Kent Krueger
Greek playwright Aeschylus. "He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain, which cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.
~ William Kent Krueger
rubbed his weary eyes
~ William King