Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Sleep

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) French Philosopher, Psychoanalyst, Poet

Our foster-nurse of nature is repose.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor; and and so shall thy labor sweeten thy rest.
Francis Quarles (1592–1644) English Religious Poet

Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English Humanist, Pacifist, Essayist, Short Story Writer, Satirist

Sleep is still most perfect when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other, knits the sleep, so that it takes the body and soul completely in its healing.
D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Essayist, Literary Critic

Go to bed early, get up early—this is wise.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English Philosopher

Your life is a kind of laboratory where you’re constantly experimenting with your own higher knowing, always increasing your capacity to design the life you choose. Human beings must create; it’s hardwired. The question is, are you consciously creating or only sleepwalking through your human life?
David Emerald

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
Charles Caleb Colton (c.1780–1832) English Clergyman, Aphorist

Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep: it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; ‘Tis meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. ‘Tis the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap; and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise-man even. There is only one thing that I dislike in sleep; ‘Tis that it resembles death; there’s very little difference between a man in his first sleep, and a man in his last sleep.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish Novelist

Do you want a sign that you’re asleep? Here it is: you’re suffering. Suffering is a sign that you’re out of touch with the truth. Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth, that you might understand that there’s falsehood somewhere, just as physical pain is given to you so you will understand that there is disease or illness somewhere. Suffering occurs when you clash with reality. When your illusions clash with reality, when your falsehoods clash with truth, then you have suffering. Otherwise there is no suffering.
Anthony de Mello (1931–87) Indian-born American Theologian

Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English Poet, Literary Critic, Philosopher

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American Self-Help Author

It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one’s bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one’s head under the cover, giving one’s self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship.
Marcel Proust (1871–1922) French Novelist

The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife; and these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them, and such as it is to be of these more or less I am, and of these one and all I weave the song of myself.
Walt Whitman (1819–92) American Poet, Essayist, Journalist, American, Poet, Essayist, Journalist

There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act. We surrender to sleep, but in the way that the master entrusts himself to the slave who serves him.
Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003) French Novelist, Critic

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 to-morrow.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813–87) American Clergyman, Writer

Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English Poet, Literary Critic, Philosopher

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right…. We sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) French Essayist

I am convinced that a light supper, a good night’s sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.
Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) English Statesman, Man of Letters

Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.
English Proverb

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.
Heraclitus (535BCE–475BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher

Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
Thomas Dekker

Methought I heard a voice cry Sleep no more,
Macbeth does murder sleep the innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care
The death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath
Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course,
Chief nourisher in life’s feast.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) German Poet, Writer

When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream.
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American Writer

Sleep is so like death, says Sir Thomas Browne, “that I dare not trust myself to it without prayer.” They both, when they seize the body, leave the soul at liberty; and wise is he that remembers of both, that they can be made safe and happy only by virtue.
William Temple (1881–1944) English Theologian, Archbishop

One hour’s sleep before midnight, is worth two after.
Common Proverb

Tired nature’s sweet restorer, balmy sleep; he, like the world, his ready visit pays where fortune smiles—the wretched he forsakes.
Edward Young (1683–1765) English Poet

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