Quotes about sleep
53 quotes from 39 people
Carl Jung1875–1961Psychology and Alchemy (1952), par. 51 p.46- Carl Jung1875–1961The Symbolic Life (1953)
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than with the imagination being awake?
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.To all, to each, a fair good-night,
And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light!
Milan Kundera1929–2023The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Pt. 2, ch. 16We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822Queen Mab (1813), Canto IWho can wrestle against Sleep? — Yet is that giant very gentleness.
Martin Farquhar Tupper1810–1889Proverbial Philosophy (1838-1849), Of BeautyMen who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970The Conquest of Happiness (1930)Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
Fled is that music: — Do I wake or sleep?I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night; and then the nap takes me.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Johnson (Boswell) (1775)When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
Ursula K. Le Guin1929–2018The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 3 “The Mad King” (p. 42)Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Robert Southey1774–1843The Curse of Kehama (1810), Canto XV, st. 11.
Sigmund Freud1856–1939The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), from The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, translated by James Strachey.
