John Keats on sleep

Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.

Love in a hut, with water and a crust,
Is — Love, forgive us! — cinders, ashes, dust.

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‘Did you sleep well?’ I said ‘No, I made a few mistakes.’

Steven Wrightborn 1955

• Steven Wright

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.

Baltasar Gracián1601–1658

A few hours of mountain climbing turn a villain and a saint into two rather equal creature. Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity, and liberty is added eventually by sleep.

Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900