Quotations About / On: SLEEP

  • 41.
    And that their sleep be sound
    I say this childermas
    Who could not, at one time,
    Have saved them from the gas.
    (Anthony Hecht (b. 1923), U.S. poet. It Out-Herods Herod. Pray You, Avoid It (l. 33-36). . . Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse, The, 1945-1980. D. J. Enright, comp. (1980) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 42.
    The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
    (E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879-1970), British novelist, essayist. Aspects of the Novel, ch. 3 (1927).)
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  • 43.
    Oh, for boyhood's painless play,
    Sleep that wakes in laughing day,
    Health that mocks the doctor's rules,
    Knowledge never learned of schools.
    (John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), U.S. poet. repr. In The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, ed. W. Garrett Horder (1911). The Barefoot Boy, l. 19-22 (1855).)
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  • 44.
    If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?
    (Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British novelist. The Fifth Earl of Gonister, in After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, pt. II, ch. 4 (1939). This witticism is found in the diaries of the Fifth Earl of Gonister, Huxley's invention of an eighteenth-century aristocrat of almost superhuman cynicism.)
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  • 45.
    Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Romeo, in Romeo and Juliet, act 2, sc. 2, l. 186. To Juliet as she goes in from her window.)
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  • 46.
    Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
    The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
    Hath had elsewhere its setting,
    And cometh from afar:
    (William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet. Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood (l. 58-61). . . The Poems; Vol. 1 [William Wordsworth]. John O. Hayden, ed. (1977, repr. 1990) Penguin Books.)
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  • 47.
    Let's contend no more, Love
    Strive nor weep:
    All be as before, Love,
    MOnly sleep!
    (Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. A Woman's Last Word, st. 1, Men and Women, vol. 1 (1855).)
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  • 48.
    If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?
    (Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British novelist. The Fifth Earl of Gonister, in After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, pt. II, ch. 4 (1939). This witticism is found in the diaries of the Fifth Earl of Gonister, Huxley's invention of an eighteenth-century aristocrat of almost superhuman cynicism.)
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  • 49.
    Plead, Sleep, my cause, and make her soft like thee,
    That she in peace may wake and pity me.
    (Thomas Campion (1567-1620), British poet. Sleep, Angry Beauty (l. 11-12). . . Oxford Book of Short Poems, The. P. J. Kavanagh and James Michie, eds. Oxford University Press.)
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  • 50.
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    Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.
    (Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), British poet. No Worst, There Is None (l. 13-14). . . Gerard Manley Hopkins. Catherine Phillips, ed. (1986) Oxford University Press.)
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