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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.

Jacula Prudentum · 1633

★ 1.9

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

Night Thoughts · 1742

★ 1.9

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

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.

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod · 1889

★ 1.9

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.

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.

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.

The Iliad · 700 BC

★ 3.3

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

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

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.

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.

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

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