Life in the middle ages is often associated with an inability to sleep. I am grateful these days for knowing I have had a stint of three or four hours of slumbering bliss as I peer at the clock radio in the early hours of the morning.
I am also grateful for happy dreams and perhaps even more grateful when I wake up from nightmares.
Sleep is essential to good physical and mental health and I read that adults still need 7-9 hours each night.
I hope you enjoy these quotes about sleep.
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast.
~William Shakespeare, Macbeth
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. ~Leo J. Burke
Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep. ~Fran Lebowitz
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
And if tonight my soul may find her peace
in sleep, and sink in good oblivion,
and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower
then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.
~D.H. Lawrence
Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking. ~Clifton Fadiman
If people were meant to pop out of bed, we'd all sleep in toasters. ~Author unknown, attributed to Jim Davis
Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. ~Thomas Dekker
People who snore always fall asleep first. ~Author Unknown
The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
O bed! O bed! delicious bed!
That heaven upon earth to the weary head.
~Thomas Hood, Miss Kilmansegg - Her Dream
There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock. ~Author Unknown
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. ~John Steinbeck
Nothing cures insomnia like the realization that it's time to get up. ~Author Unknown
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own. ~Plutarch
The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep. ~E. Joseph Cossman
Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I'm not asleep... but that doesn't mean I'm awake. ~Author Unknown
The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more. ~Wilson Mizener
Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast.
~William Shakespeare, Macbeth
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. ~Leo J. Burke
Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep. ~Fran Lebowitz
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
And if tonight my soul may find her peace
in sleep, and sink in good oblivion,
and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower
then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.
~D.H. Lawrence
Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking. ~Clifton Fadiman
If people were meant to pop out of bed, we'd all sleep in toasters. ~Author unknown, attributed to Jim Davis
Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. ~Thomas Dekker
People who snore always fall asleep first. ~Author Unknown
The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
O bed! O bed! delicious bed!
That heaven upon earth to the weary head.
~Thomas Hood, Miss Kilmansegg - Her Dream
There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock. ~Author Unknown
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. ~John Steinbeck
Nothing cures insomnia like the realization that it's time to get up. ~Author Unknown
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own. ~Plutarch
The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep. ~E. Joseph Cossman
Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I'm not asleep... but that doesn't mean I'm awake. ~Author Unknown
The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more. ~Wilson Mizener
