Macbeth Sleep Quotes:

Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [78]

topic: Deeds, Trouble, Macbeth Sleep, Natural Order

There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 1, l. 4

topic: Heaven, Important Macbeth, Macbeth Sleep, Darkness In Macbeth, Macbeth Motif

Sleep knits up the raveled sleeve of care.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (1998). “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, p.127, Oxford University Press, USA

topic: Sleep, Care, Macbeth Sleep

Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve 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

source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 36

topic: Hurt, Sleep, Insomnia, No Sleep, Sleeplessness

What's done cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [74]

topic: Bed, Done, Undone, Macbeth Sleep

You lack the season of all natures, sleep.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 141

topic: Sleep, Insomnia, Macbeth Theme, Lack Of Sleep, Sleeplessness

Still it cried ‘Sleep no more!’ to all the house: ‘Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more,—Macbeth shall sleep no more!

- William Shakespeare

source: 1606 Macbeth. Macbeth, act 2, sc.2, l.39-41.

topic: Sleep, House, Murder, Darkness In Macbeth, Macbeth Sleep

Better be with the dead, Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 11

topic: Lying, Anxiety, Mind, Darkness In Macbeth, Macbeth Motif

Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures: ‘tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 52

topic: Sleep, Eye, Giving, Macbeth Conflict, Macbeth Sleep

After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 11

topic: Death, Prayer, Sleep, Sleep Well, Macbeth Conflict

But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 11

topic: Dream, Fear, Sleep, Macbeth Motif, Macbeth Sleep

A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching!

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2015). “Macbeth: Third Series”, p.271, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Sleep, Benefits, Macbeth Motif, Macbeth Sleep

Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.

- William Shakespeare

source: 1606 Malcolm. Macbeth, act 4, sc.3, l.242.

topic: Cheer, Night, Long, Darkness In Macbeth, Macbeth Sleep

The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Sleep, Insomnia, Trying, Not Sleeping, Funny Insomnia

O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.

- Thomas Hood

source: Thomas Hood (1860). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood”, p.229

topic: Insomnia, Heaven, Bed, Funny Insomnia, Funny Sleep

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

topic: Life, Morning, Sleep, Solved Problems, Morning After

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

- Virginia Woolf

topic: Life, Sleep, Insomnia, Joy Of Life, Funny Sleep

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

topic: Sleep, Depth, Needs, Blackness, Funny Sleep

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

- Charlotte Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte (2009). “The Professor: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.32, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Dream, Sleep, Insomnia, Funny Insomnia, Restless Mind

Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [38]

topic: Men, Blood, Hands, Sleepwalking, Macbeth Essay

Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity, Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify, Weary bodies refresh and mollify.

- Ovid

topic: Sleep, Insomnia, Soul, Funny Insomnia, Rest And Sleep

Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky!

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [38]

topic: Time, Hands, Two, Darkness In Macbeth, Macbeth Key

All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh!

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [55]

topic: Hands, Lady Macbeth, Guilt, Guilty Conscience, Little Hands

I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 136

topic: Blood, Lady Macbeth, Guilt, Guilty Conscience, Darkness In Macbeth

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Sleep, Eye, Insomnia, Good Night Sleep, Good Sleep

Out, damned spot! out, I say!

- William Shakespeare

topic: Memorable, Guilt, Spots, Darkness In Macbeth, Motifs

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 2

topic: Memorable, Trying, Deeds, Macbeth Sleep

The worst thing in the world is to be bland.

- Ben Huh

source: Source: thebiglead.com

topic: World, Worst, Bland, Funny Insomnia, Funny Sleep