Rest And Sleep Quotes:

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

- William Penn

source: William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.448

topic: Easter, Health, Sleep, Sounds Of Silence, Nourishment

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

- Leonardo da Vinci

topic: Happy, Peace, Sleep, Live Life To Its Fullest, Meaningful Death

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Love, Morning, Failure, Want To Sleep, Can't Sleep

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.

- Gaston Bachelard

topic: Morning, Sleep, Night, Lack Of Sleep, Repose

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

- Rene Descartes

topic: Dream, Sleep, Imagine, Interpretation Of Dreams, Accustomed

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

- Virginia Woolf

source: 1929 A Room of One's Own, ch.1.

topic: Love, Food, Sleep, Hunger For Food, Healthy Living

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

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

- Henny Youngman

topic: Funny, Good Morning, Laughter, Funny Good Morning, Morning After

I put a lot of time and effort into the exercise I get, the amount of rest and sleep I get, and the amount I eat. And I think those three things are really kind of my wellness and health foundation.

- Jennifer Ashton

topic: Sleep, Exercise, Thinking, Rest And Sleep

I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.

- Franz Kafka

source: Franz Kafka (1949). “The Diaries of Franz Kafka: 1914-1923. Tr. by Martin Greenberg, with the co-operation of Hannah Arendt”, Schocken

topic: Tired, Sleep, Effort, Rest And Sleep

Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Life, Morning, Looks, Talkative, Unworthy

The body needs its rest, and sleep is extremely important in any health regimen. There should be three main things: eating, exercise and sleep. All three together in the right balance make for a truly healthy lifestyle.

- Rohit Shetty

topic: Sleep, Exercise, Healthy, Rest And Sleep, Healthy Lifestyle

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Life, Good Morning, Death, Morning Inspirational, Morning Motivation

I just need to rest, that’s all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.

- George R. R. Martin

source: George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1665, Bantam

topic: Sleep, Needs, Littles, Rest And Sleep

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

- John Milton

source: John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 10”

topic: Death, Mother, Sleep, Rest And Sleep

I get sick all the time because I get no rest and sleep, but it's definitely worth it.

- Big Sean

topic: Sleep, Sick, Worth It, Sean, Rest And Sleep

From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.

- John Donne

source: c.1610-1615 Holy Sonnets, no.10.

topic: Sleep, Men, Soul, Rest And Sleep

Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and sleep. I am far more likely to achieve peace of mind through writing than the capacity to write through peace.

- Franz Kafka

source: Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Felice”, p.593, Schocken

topic: Writing, Sleep, Mind, Underworld, Rest And Sleep