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Quotes About Sleep

Every night in sleep God takes away all your troubles to show you that you are not a mortal being; you are spirit.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
There is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep, Now tell me if that any is. For gift or grace, surpassing this-- He giveth His beloved sleep.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
For all things turn to barenness In the dim glass the demons hold The glass of outer weariness Made when God slept in times of old
~ Loreena McKennitt
It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
~ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.
~ John Bunyan
It is hard to stay focused with so much swirling around me. God is distracting. He never stops talking, and I can never stop listening. There is a reason we sleep.
~ N.D. Wilson
If we believe the Bible, we must accept the fact that, in the old days, God and his angels came to humans in their sleep and made themselves known in dreams.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I pray every night. I just talk to God and I can go to sleep. I don't worry anymore.
~ Anna Chlumsky
God, like all highest things, Hides light in shade, And in the night his visitings To sleep and dreams are clearliest made.
~ Arthur Symons
Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
~ Abraham Cowley
God has more important things to worry about than who I sleep with.
~ Cyndi Lauper
The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once.
~ T. S. Eliot
Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will; Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!
~ William Wordsworth
I'm so tired after dinner I fall asleep with my clothes on, almost as soon as my head hits the pillow, and so I forget to ask God, in my prayers, to keep me from waking up.
~ Lauren Oliver
I die in sleep, and sleep is death and death is unknown, and unknown is God.
~ Michael Bassey
I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.
~ Patti Smith
O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The coyotes made too much noise last night and kept me awake. Please eradicate these annoying animals.
~ Dave Barry
I think that's part of the whole denial and suicidal mechanism [ of the human's race] right "Oh my God, the house is on fire." You sleep through the smoke.
~ Eve Ensler
I had a nightmare that I slept without my nose tape on thank God it wasn't true!
~ Heidi Montag
I had a standing agreement with god. I'd agree to believe in him, barely, so long as he let me sleep in on Sundays.
~ Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy
I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
~ Harry Dean Stanton
It feels good to be awake, knowing others are asleep. Makes you feel like the night is not for everyone, just a chosen few.
~ Joseph Morgan