Quotes · Skopia

27 quotes

The arousing from sleep, after a recent misfortune, is a bitter moment; the mind at first habitually recurs to its previous tranquility, but is soon depressed by the thought of the contrast that awaits it.

Alessandro Manzoni

The Betrothed · 1842

★ 1.8

One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.

George Herbert

Jacula Prudentum · 1633

★ 1.9

Poem

Tir'd Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep!

Edward Young

Night Thoughts · 1742

★ 1.9

O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.

Thomas Hood

1840

★ 1.9

Poem · Children's literature

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe- Sailed on a river of crystal light, Into a sea of dew.

Eugene Field

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod · 1889

★ 1.9

Novel

Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.

Umberto Eco

The Name of the Rose · 1980

★ 1.9

Film · Epic (film) · War (film) · Epic · War

The trick to falling asleep is trying to stay awake.

T, 4 Medic Wade

Saving Private Ryan · 1998

★ 2.0

Play · Tragedy (play)

O sleep's enchantment, friend and helper against sickness.

Euripides

Orestes · 408 BC

★ 2.2

Play · Comedy (play)

Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eyes, Steal me awhile from mine own company.

William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream · 1599

★ 3.0

Play · Tragedy (play)

Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, Chief nourisher in life’s feast.

William Shakespeare

Macbeth · 1616

★ 3.0

Poem · Epic poem

Sleep, the brother of Death.

Homer

The Iliad · 700 BC

★ 3.3

Poem

I have come to the borders of sleep, The unfathomable deep Forest where all must lose Their way.

Edward Thomas

1917

★ 3.5

Scripture · Religious literature

I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids.

Psalm 132:4

450 BC

★ 3.5

Essay

Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.

Sir Thomas Browne

1682

★ 3.5

Philosophical literature

Living is an illness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Nicolas Chamfort

1796

★ 3.5

If thou wilt ease thine heart Of lover and all its smart Then sleep, dear, sleep.

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

1850

★ 3.5

Song · Hip hop

I never sleep, 'cause sleep is the cousin of death.

Nas

N.Y. State of Mind · 1994

★ 3.7

Essay · Philosophical literature

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

Plutarch, Moralia

★ 3.7

Scripture · Religious literature

Thy sleep shall be sweet.

Proverbs 3:24

686 BC

★ 3.8

Play · History (play)

O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness?

William Shakespeare

Henry IV, Part 2 · 1597

★ 3.8

Allegory · Religious literature

Sleep is sweet to the laboring man.

John Bunyan

The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that Which is to Come · 1678

★ 3.8

Poem · Narrative poem

Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner · 1798

★ 3.8

Novel

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale · 1851

★ 3.8

Tragedy (play)

Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And, where care lodges, sleep will never lie; But where unbruisèd youth with unstuffed brain Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.

William Shakespeare

1597

★ 3.9

Novel

Blessed be he that invented sleep.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote · 1615

★ 4.0

Novel

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.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote · 1615

★ 5.5

Almanac

Early to Bed and early to rise, makes a Man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Benjamin Franklin

1735

★ 7.5

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