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Sleep Quotes

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
- Ambrose Bierce

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
- Anthony Burgess

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman. Now he would have given all he had or ever might have to hold her warm in his arms, both of them wrapped in one blanket, and sleep. All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
- D. H. Lawrence, "Lady Chatterly's Lover"

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
- Ellen Goodman

"I am one of those who like to stay late at the cafe," the loder waitor said. "With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night."
- Ernest Hemingway, "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"

Well now, hold on/maybe I won't go to sleep at all/and it'll be a beautiful white night
- Frank O'Hara, "Lunch Poems" ( $ )

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
- Homer

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.
- Joan Klempner

Death and damnation, I can dissociate from everything else but my own self; I can't even forget myself when I am asleep.
- Soren Kierkegaard, "The Diary of Soren Kierkegaard"

Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.
- Edgar Allen Poe

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