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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
If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
Dale Carnegie1888–1955
I don’t generally feel anything until noon, then it’s time for my nap.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
Mark Twain1835–1910
Life is something that happens when you can’t get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitzborn 1950
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.
LBLeo Burke
To be awake is to be alive.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Walden (1854)In context
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961
Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can’t sleep anyhow.
Mark Twain1835–1910
- Age
The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.
Carl Jung1875–1961The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man (1934)
Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
Philip K. Dick1928–1982“What The Dead Men Say” (1964)
My eyes make pictures, when they are shut.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834“A Day-Dream”, l. 1 (1828)
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