quotations about sleep
Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death.
HOMER
The Odyssey
Sweet is the oblivion of sleep;
But sweeter far is the sleep beyond oblivion.
ELSA BARKER
Songs of a Vagrom Angel
Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT
Table Talk
In sleep I am not, I am gone,
I am given up.
And nothing in the world is lovelier than sleep,
dark dreamless sleep, in deep oblivion.
D. H. LAWRENCE
"Sleep and Waking"
The eye is not harmed by sleep.
CHINUA ACHEBE
No Longer at Ease
Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night,
Brother to Death, in silent darkness born:
Relieve my languish, and restore the light,
With dark forgetting of my care return.
SAMUEL DANIEL
Sonnets to Delia
Excessive proneness to sleep is a sign of decay and waste of brain.
ANONYMOUS
Harper's Magazine, October 1866
For a short period of time, if you need to get by in a few hours of sleep, let's say that you are a trauma surgeon, right? And you're on call and you have cases. That's totally fine, there's not much else that you can do. I think that where people get into trouble is when for an extended period of time, they try to cheat themselves of sleep. And then what happens is much like, almost like an alcohol addiction, that just becomes your new normal. So you get used to going on four to five hours of sleep and you assume that's just what it should feel like. When in fact, you probably can be a lot more productive a lot higher-performing if you slept more.
BRAD STULBERG
"Here's why four hours of sleep is terrible for you -- even if you don't feel tired", Business Insider, August 18, 2017
If I could sleep forever
I could forget about everything
DANDY WARHOLS
"Sleep"
The number one cause of people not getting enough sleep, is just not dedicating enough time to get the sleep.
JASON HAUSMANN
"Sleep Deprivation in adults is more common than thought"
In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.
THOMAS WOLFE
A Stone, a Leaf, a Door: Poems
I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.
PETE WENTZ
Gray
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops; and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up tomorrow.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts
Dear sleep, I know we had problems when I was younger ... but I love you now.
ANONYMOUS