William Shakespeare Quotes, Sleep Quotes, Insomnia 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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Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.

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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

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We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life and defense. We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake.

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You can't keep your mind on fighting when you're thinking about a woman. You can't keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.

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The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Night Quotes

Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door; Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs the eternal sleep, But in the stillness far withdrawn Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.

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Once more the storm is howling, and half hid Under this cradle-hood and coverlid My child sleeps on.

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Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.

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

I feel wicked sleeping in a warm bed, while my dearest friends have been knocked down or have fallen into a gutter somewhere out in the cold night. I get frightened when I think of close friends who have now been delivered into the hands of the cruelest brutes that walk the earth. And all because they are Jews!

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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Night Quotes

I long for scenes where man has never trod; A place where woman never smil'd or wept; There to abide with my creator, God, And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept: Untroubling and untroubled where I lie; The grass below--above the vaulted sky.

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Tags : John Clare Quotes , Lying Quotes , Sleep Quotes

Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Dying Quotes

There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service to my side are useless as wounded pride, and much more painful.

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To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

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If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law.

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Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we're not alone in the universe, even in sleep.

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Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Midnight 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

Speaking of sleeping bags, has anything ever had a less creative name?

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The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Heart Quotes , Sleep Quotes

My big complaint with myself is that I get tired. But, I forgive myself because it's human to get tired. But, I didn't always feel like I could forgive myself. There's a certain [drive], I think. But, now I feel like, "OK, you can be tired. People should let you be tired. Then you should go and take a nap, and you should sleep." That's about it.

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