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Quotes about Sleep

And suppose the one inside answers, ‘Do not bother me. My door is already shut, and my children and I are in bed. I cannot get up to give you anything.’
- Luke 11:7
When Jesus rose from prayer and returned to the disciples, He found them asleep, exhausted from sorrow.
- Luke 22:45
They thought that Jesus was talking about actual sleep, but He was speaking about the death of Lazarus.
- John 11:13
And a certain young man named Eutychus, seated in the window, was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell from the third story and was picked up dead.
- Acts 20:9
That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.
- 1 Corinthians 11:30
For those who sleep, sleep at night; and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:7
Everyone was then encourage to have a time to rest. The little ones always protested, declaring they weren't tired and didn't need to sleep. They were always, amusingly enough, the first to tall asleep. Alice thought it comical to watch the way they fought napping. It reminded her of how she often fought against the rest that God offered her. So many times she had declared her ability to bear up under the load, to keep pressing forward when all God wanted for her was rest.
- Tracie Peterson
The moments that precede sleep are very similar to death. We are filled by a torpor and it is impossible to know when the 'I' takes on a different form. Our dreams are our second life. I am incapable of going through the doors that lead us to that invisible world without a shiver.
- Paulo Coelho
This is a hell of a night. I don't want to leave it just to go to sleep.
- William Saroyan
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come
- William Wordsworth
In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.
- Hippocrates
It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.
- Victor Hugo