SLEEP QUOTES VIII

quotations about sleep


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Sleep is the station grand
Down which on either hand
The hosts of witness stand.

EMILY DICKINSON
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"Sleep is supposed to be"


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Tags: Emily Dickinson


You are now in a deep sleep
(In-store promises)
Endless possibilities
A life of ease
A life cocooned in a routine of food
(Stimulus and response!)
Softness is a thing called comfort
(It doesn't cost much to keep in touch)
We never forget you have a choice
Possibilities in store
A taste of paradise
Success on a plate for you
Endless promises

THIS HEAT

"Sleep"


It is a delicious moment, certainly, that of being well nestled in bed, and feeling that yon shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come, not past; the limbs have just been tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful; the labor of the day is gone. A gentle failure of the perceptions creeps over you; the spirit of consciousness disengages itself once more, and with a slow and hushing degrees, like a mother detaching her hand from that of a sleeping child, the wind seems to have a balmy lid closing over it, like the eye--it is closed--the mysterious spirit has gone to take its airy rounds.

LEIGH HUNT

The Indicator, January 12, 1820


But Sleep is kindly, even in his tricks; and the poets have treated him with proper reverence. According to the ancient mythologists, he had even one of the Graces to wife.

LEIGH HUNT

The Indicator, January 12, 1820


Too much sleep makes a person heavy and stupid, and those who wish to become useful to the community in their journey through life, must not take upon their backs much useless slumber.

E. L. BLANCHARD

Flights of Fancy: A Medley of Quips and Cranks in Prose and Verse


Sleep is a nightly reminder that we are beholden to our bodies, that we are our bodies, and that one day we will die. It puts us at the wrong end of the mind-body dualism that has, from Plato through Descartes, raised mind over body. It's a blow to our dignity, a reminder ... that we are (to borrow a phrase from Shakespeare) "stinkingly dependent."

GAYLE GREENE

Insomniac


What a blessing man acknowledges in sleep, whose soft oblivion makes an island of every day, and breaks the hold of continuous care; that cools the hot brain, and bathes the weary eye-lids, and lets the buffeted and foundering heart cast anchor every night in some harbor of happy dreams. He feels the beneficence of that law which makes even misery halt, and besieging fortune strike its tents, and in the great democracy of nature levels the children of men in common helplessness and common need; finding no conditions so wretched, no spot so bleak that even the most desperate cannot recline nearer to the bosom of the common mother, and forget for a little while their sorrow and their shame.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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Close your eyes now and kiss me
And whisper you'll miss me
Sleep tight
Sleep well
Sleep warm

DEAN MARTIN

"Sleep Warm"


That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

ALDOUS HUXLEY

Themes and Variations

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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk

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Excessive proneness to sleep is a sign of decay and waste of brain.

ANONYMOUS

Harper's Magazine, October 1866


Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.

JOHN STEINBECK

The Grapes of Wrath

Tags: John Steinbeck


If I could sleep forever
I could forget about everything

DANDY WARHOLS

"Sleep"


Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.

HERACLITUS

Fragments

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To sleep is to die.

DAVID GEMMELL

Lord of the Silver Bow


I try to be a good person at all times. I try to be nice to my co-workers and to my boss. I try, but without sleep, it's hard.

ROGER BLUHM

"Sleep is needed more than ever", Dodge City Daily Globe, August 24, 2017


Let youth cherish sleep, the happiest of earthly boons, while yet it is at their command; for there cometh the day to all, when neither the voice of the lute nor the bird shall bring back the sweet slumbers that fell on their young eyes as unbidden as the dews.

EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

attributed, The Book of Humour, Wit & Wisdom: A Manual of Table-talk

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Some say that gleams of a remoter world
Visit the soul in sleep -- that death is slumber,
And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber
Of those who wake and live.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

"Mont Blanc"

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Sweet is the oblivion of sleep;
But sweeter far is the sleep beyond oblivion.

ELSA BARKER

Songs of a Vagrom Angel

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Sleep is the gateway to those nightly visitations of the irrational.

GAYLE GREENE

Insomniac