Quotes about Sleep

A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life.

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.

Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.

For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves.

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet… but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

Under water men shall walk,Shall ride, shall sleep, and talk;In the air men shall be seenIn white, in black, and in green.

In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men...

What delicious abandon in the sleep of a child." He spoke mechanically: "If only adults could relax like that.

Aeschylus writes, In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.