Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.
Unknown
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
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Sir Francis Bacon
Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
Heinrich Heine
The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
Edgar Watson Howe
Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals.
Vladimir Nabokov
Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.
Ralph Waldo Emerson