The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world. Votes: 4
Leonard CohenEach night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn. Votes: 4
Mahatma GandhiBut I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep. Votes: 4
Robert FrostSleep, nurse of our life, care's best reposer. Votes: 3
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of CherburyI love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? Votes: 2
Ernest HemingwayThink in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. Votes: 2
William BlakeIf you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late. Votes: 2
Henny YoungmanThe woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. Votes: 2
Robert FrostI just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.
George R. R. MartinChildhood is the sleep of reason. [Fr., L'enfance est le sommeil de la raison.]
Jean-Jacques RousseauIs this is a dream? O, if it be a dream, Let me sleep on, and do not wake me yet!
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowIf the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?
Guillermo Cabrera InfanteThou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both.
William ShakespeareThe silence that is in the starry sky, / The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
William WordsworthNight is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment.
Dorothy RichardsonI look for the John Proctor who took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart!
Abigail WilliamsThen plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
Benjamin FranklinSleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with them.
Christopher PikeIn sleep, when fancy is let loose to play, Our dreams repeat the wishes of the day.
Claudius ClaudianusThere, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningYou can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.
G. I. GurdjieffThe cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night's sleep.
Margaret GeorgeOur life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.
Arthur SchopenhauerFor men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.
Charles KingsleyIt is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write about and do drawing.
Deanna PetherbridgeIt is not the dream of what you're feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion.
Edmondo De AmicisAll sense of hearing and of sight enfold in the serene delight and quietude of sleep.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe best ideas I've had in my life are those I saw in my sleep, in the early morning.
Karl LagerfeldArise from sleep, old cat, And with great yawns and stretchings... Amble out for love
Kobayashi IssaSleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
D. H. LawrenceSleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead.
John BanvilleWould you truly sleep with strangers?" "I don't know, I haven't met the strangers yet.
Laurell K. HamiltonI am the laughter of the new-born child On whose soft-breathing sleep an angel smiled.
Richard Watson GilderAnd sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company.
William Shakespeare