Quotes for: sleep

Quotes for: sleep

When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

Life is a sleep and love is its dream; and you have lived if you have loved.
Alfred de Musset - À quoi rêvent les jeunes filles

Life is a sleep and love is its dream; and you have lived if you have loved.

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci - Codex Trivulzianus

Sleep and Death are twin brothers.
Homer - Iliad

Sleep is the best meditation.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Francis Bacon

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
William Shakespeare - The Tempest

Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
Hippocrates

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The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own.
Heraclitus of Ephesus

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Virginia Woolf

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
Honore de Balzac

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The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
Gaston Bachelard

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Mahatma Gandhi

Light had its allotted time; but timeless and infinite is the reign of the night − the duration of sleep eternal.
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