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Religious literature3 quotes
Sleep is sweet to the laboring man. — John Bunyan · 1678Thy sleep shall be sweet. — Proverbs 3:24 · 686 BCI will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids. — Psalm 132:4 · 450 BCTragedy (play)3 quotes
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 · 1597Sleep 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 · 1616O sleep's enchantment, friend and helper against sickness. — Euripides · 408 BCPhilosophical literature2 quotes
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. — HeraclitusLiving is an illness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death. — Nicolas Chamfort · 1796Children's literature1 quote
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 · 1889Comedy (play)1 quote
Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eyes,
Steal me awhile from mine own company. — William Shakespeare · 1599Epic1 quote
The trick to falling asleep is trying to stay awake. — T, 4 Medic Wade · 1998Epic (film)1 quote
The trick to falling asleep is trying to stay awake. — T, 4 Medic Wade · 1998Epic poem1 quote
Sleep, the brother of Death. — Homer · 700 BCHip hop1 quote
I never sleep, 'cause sleep is the cousin of death. — Nas · 1994History (play)1 quote
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 · 1597Narrative poem1 quote
Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798War1 quote
The trick to falling asleep is trying to stay awake. — T, 4 Medic Wade · 1998War (film)1 quote
The trick to falling asleep is trying to stay awake. — T, 4 Medic Wade · 1998