{"id":3574,"date":"2015-04-22T08:32:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T15:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=3574"},"modified":"2015-04-22T08:42:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T15:42:09","slug":"8-quotes-about-sleep-from-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/8-quotes-about-sleep-from-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Quotes about Sleep from Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having a siesta. Taking a snooze. Getting forty winks. Heading off to slumber land. Whatever you call it, sleep is important. Here are eight quotes about sleep from literature.<\/p>\n

“Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I’ll sleep more easily by night.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0A Game of Thrones<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0George R. R. Martin<\/a><\/p>\n

The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0To the Lighthouse<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Virginia Woolf<\/a><\/p>\n

But sleep, in the long run, proves greater than all emotions.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Wendigo<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Algernon Blackwood<\/a><\/p>\n

We rose up betimes, for sleep weighs lightly on the hopeful as well as on the anxious.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Swiss Family Robinson<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Johann D. Wyss<\/a><\/p>\n

The day was made for laziness, and lying on one’s back in green places, and staring at the sky till its brightness forced one to shut one’s eyes and go to sleep.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Old Curiosity Shop<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Charles Dickens<\/a><\/p>\n

“O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, that thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, and steep my senses in forgetfulness?”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Henry IV, Part Two<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0William Shakespeare<\/a><\/p>\n

It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Captains Courageous<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Rudyard Kipling<\/a><\/p>\n

How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads, to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Dracula<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Bram Stoker<\/a><\/p>\n

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Having a siesta. Taking a snooze. Getting forty winks. Heading off to slumber land. Whatever you call it, sleep is important. Here are eight quotes about sleep from literature. “Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I’ll sleep …<\/span> <\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[770,323,271,810,825,270,775,809,811,806,430,808,807,616,167,142],"class_list":["post-3574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everything-else","tag-a-game-of-thrones","tag-algernon-blackwood","tag-bram-stoker","tag-captains-courageous","tag-charles-dickens","tag-dracula","tag-george-r-r-martin","tag-johann-d-wyss","tag-rudyard-kipling","tag-sleep-quotes","tag-the-old-curiosity-shop","tag-the-swiss-family-robinson","tag-the-wendigo","tag-to-the-lighthouse","tag-virginia-woolf","tag-william-shakespeare"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t