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Quotations by Subject: Sleep (25 quotes)

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He giveth his beloved sleep.: Bible, Psalm cxxvii. 2.
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.: Bible, Proverbs xxiv. 33.
The sleep of a laboring man is sweet.: Bible, Ecclesiastes v. 12.
If you get a reputation as an early riser, you can sleep till noon.: Irish Proverb
Not until just before dawn do people sleep best; not until people get old do they become wise.: Chinese Proverb
Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding, rendered speechless by emotion!: Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960), Dr. Zhivago
He who learns must suffer, and, even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.: Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC)
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.: Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986)
Thou hast nor youth nor age, but, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep, dreaming on both.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Measure for Measure, Act III, sc.1
A stirring dwarf we do allowance give before a sleeping giant.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Troilus and Cressida, Act II, sc. 3

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