Tuesday, 20 August 2013

Sleep - Quotes

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. - Charlotte Bronte

All men, whilst they are awake, are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own. - Heraclitus

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose. - Henry Wadworth Longfellow

How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads, to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams. - Bram Stoker

I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep is the consummate protection against the unseemliness that is the invariable consequence of being awake. - Fran Lebowitz

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

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. - John Steinbeck

It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting. - Daniel Handler

No amount of sleep in the world could cure the tiredness I feel. - Unknown

No day is so bad it can’t be fixed with a nap. - Unknown

Sleep doesn’t help if it’s your soul that’s tired. - Unknown

Sleep is not a waste of time. During sleep, a variety of biological processes take place that restore our bodies and minds. - Nancy Foldvary-Schaefer

Sleep is sweet to the labouring man. - John Bunyan

Sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite. - Colonial American Saying

Sleep, nurse of our life, care’s best reposer. - Edward Herbert

Sleep, rest of nature, O sleep, most gentle of the divinities, peace of the soul, thou at whose presence care disappears, who soothest hearts wearied with daily employments, and makest them strong again for labour! - Ovid

Sleep. To lie down and shut out the noise, the fear, the unceasing misery. - Tad Williams

Sleeping people can't fall down. - Japanese Proverb

Sweet are the slumbers of a virtuous man. - Joseph Addison

Sleep, nurse of our life, care’s best reposer. - Edward Herbert

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

The best eraser in the world is a good night’s sleep. - Orlando A. Battista

There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled. - Ovid

There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours' oblivion. - Anne Reeve Aldrich

There is only one thing people like that is good for them – a good night’s sleep.- Unknwon

To be effective in anything, first get a good night’s sleep. - Unknown

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

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