I’m sitting here, drinking a cup of Chamomile trying to urge my weary noggin’ to bed even though it wants nothing to do with my pillow right now. So I decided to look up some quotes about sleeping. Here are some of the better ones:
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
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed. ~Ambrose Bierce
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book. ~Irish Proverb
Sleep - those little slices of death, how I loathe them. ~Edgar Allen Poe
Consciousness: that annoying time between naps. ~Author Unknown
There is no snooze button on a cat [or dog] who wants breakfast. ~Author Unknown
Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking. ~Clifton Fadiman
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation. ~Author Unknown
Personally, i agree with Mr. Poe - I hate sleeping, but it’s something I must do, so when I finally settle down to actually partake in a “…little slice of death” , I’d rather just get to it and get it over with, not lying there thinking about trying not to think. I suppose that could be a good thing, a sign of an overactive mind.
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07.05.05 at 10:32:00
Carleen Huxley
“There is no snooze button on a cat [or dog] who wants breakfast.” Reminds me of Chani. I have to admit, I think I prefer waking up to a snif, nuzzle and lick, than to that siren monster known as an alarm clock.
10.05.05 at 03:17:18
Simone
conosco la paura di chi addormentandosi è terrorizzato fino alla cima dei capelli perchè la terra gli frana sotto i piedi e il sogno comincia
I know the fear of the ones who by falling asleep are scared to the bones ’cause earth fall under his feet and the nightmare begins… (or dream?)
By A Nightmare on elm street