Sleep is pain’s easiest salve, and doth fulfill all the offices of death, except to kill.
Sleep Quotes
We term sleep a death… by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.
Come, blessed Darkness, come and bring thy balm For eyes grown weary of the garish day! Come with thy soft, slow steps, thy garments grey, Thy veiling shadows, bearing in thy palm The poppy-seeds of slumber, deep and calm.
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.
Sleep, Silence’s child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings Indifferent host to shepherds and kings;Sole comforter to minds with grief opprest.
Sometimes when I sleep at night I think of “Hop on Pop”.
It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
Sleep, to the homeless thou art home; the friendless find in thee a friend.
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher’s the poet’s equal there.
