Homer on sleep

Who dares think one thing, and another tell,
My heart detests him as the gates of hell.

A glorious death is his
Who for his country falls.

Bird-signs!
Fight for your country⁠—that is the best, the only omen!

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