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The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
The Bible (King James Version)Ecclesiastes 5:12 (KJV)In context
- Money
- Work
Dawn, n. The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men prefer to rise at about that time, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach, and otherwise mortifying the flesh.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
- Comedy
I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.
Emily Brontë1818–1848Wuthering Heights (1847), Chapter IXIn context
- Thinking
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.
LBLeo Burke
I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
Lord Byron1788–1824Darkness, line 1 (1816).In context
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
Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.
Miguel de Cervantes1547–1616Don Quixote, Part I (1605), Ch. 1 (tr. Samuel Putnam)
- Reading
The girl slept on, motionless, in that curled-up looseness achieved by some women and all cats.
Raymond Chandler1888–1959“I’ll Be Waiting” (short story), The Saturday Evening Post (14 October 1939)
- Animals
If we could sleep twenty-four hours a day, we would soon return to the primordial slime, the beatitude of that perfect torpor before Genesis-the dream of every consciousness sick of itself.
ECEmil Cioran1911–1995The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
My eyes make pictures, when they are shut.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834“A Day-Dream”, l. 1 (1828)
- Inspiration
Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
Philip K. Dick1928–1982“What The Dead Men Say” (1964)
They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), II
- Truth & Lies
A dream! What is a dream? And is not our life a dream?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), V
- Life & Death
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night
Sailed off in a wooden shoe⁠—
Sailed on a river of crystal light,
Into a sea of dew.
Eugene Field1850–1895Wynken, Blynken, and Nod (1889)In context
- Children
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
Sigmund Freud1856–1939The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), from The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, translated by James Strachey.