William Shakespeare Quotes, Passion Quotes, Sleep Quotes

O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world, And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice, Which scorns a modern invocation.

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A stirring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant.

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Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Sleep Quotes , People Quotes

Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity, Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify, Weary bodies refresh and mollify.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Insomnia Quotes

If you can cultivate wholesome mental states prior to sleep and allow them to continue right into sleep without getting distracted, then sleep itself becomes wholesome.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Sleep Quotes , States Quotes

Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.

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Tags : Abraham Cowley Quotes , Book Quotes , Sleep Quotes

Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Block Quotes , Sleep Quotes

What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Wake Up Quotes

Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both.

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I'm not one of those people who is trying to act like I don't sleep. I used to be like, "Oh, I only need four hours." Now I need exactly 5 1/2 to 6 in order to feel like I've done well.

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Tags : Oprah Winfrey Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Order Quotes

May the merciful god, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the cunning of man devises, can keep me from the chasm of sleep. Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but with him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Men Quotes

It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Insomnia Quotes

Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Trying Quotes

Try a little harder, and meditation comes. You do not feel the body or anything else. When you come out of it after the hour, you have had the most beautiful rest you ever had in your life. That is the only way you ever give rest to your system. Not even the deepest sleep will give you such a rest as that.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Sleep Quotes

O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, 1710. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?

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All manifest life seems to require a period of sleep, of calm, in which to gain added strength, renewed vigour, for the next manifestation, or awakening to activity. Thus is the march of all progress, of all manifest life - in waves, successive waves, [of] activity and repose. Waves succeed each other in an endless chain of progression.

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