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It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.
Baltasar Gracián1601–1658
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961
I don’t generally feel anything until noon, then it’s time for my nap.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894
Sleep, universal king of gods and men.
Homer900–800 BCIliad, XIV. 233 (tr. Lord Derby); Hera addressing Sleep
A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere.
Washington Irving1783–1859The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820)In context
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)
One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
James Joyce1882–1941Referring to Finnegans Wake in a letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver (24 November 1926)
- Writing
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)
The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not — which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.
Carl Jung1875–1961Psychology and Alchemy (1952), par. 51 p.46
- Thinking
We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.
Carl Jung1875–1961The Symbolic Life (1953)
- God
This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.
Carl Jung1875–1961General Aspects of Dream Psychology (1928)
Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
Fled is that music: — Do I wake or sleep?
John Keats1795–1821Ode to a Nightingale, Stanza 8In context
O magic sleep! O comfortable bird,
That broodest o’er the troubled sea of the mind
Till it is hush’d and smooth!
John Keats1795–1821Endymion (1818), Bk. I, l. 453In context
The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
Jack Kerouac1922–1969Book of Dreams (1961) Foreword
Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself.
Milan Kundera1929–2023The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Pt. 2, ch. 16