6 Quotes Regarding Sleep


The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
Charles C. Colton

There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
Edward Lucas

Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.
Ogden Nash

Time, motion and wine cause sleep.
Ovid

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Weariness can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth finds the down pillow hard.
William Shakespeare