![]() If possible, you should always sleep with someone you love. ![]() Children will tell you how lonely it is sleeping alone. Sleeping alone, except under doctor's orders, does much harm. Thomas Dekker (1577-1632)ĭon't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night. the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul. The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep. There is only one thing that I dislike in sleep 'Tis that it resembles death there's very little difference between a man in his first sleep, and a man in his last sleep. 'Tis the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise-man even. Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep: it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak 'Tis meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. And dreams in their development have breath, and tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy. Sleep hath its own world, and a wide realm of wild reality. We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers. We surrender to sleep, but in the way that the master entrusts himself to the slave who serves him. There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. The repose of the night does not belong to us. The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. Anonymous from the Army and the Fire Service Never stand when you can sit, never sit when you can lie down, never stay awake when you can sleep. Problems always look smaller after a warm meal and a good night's sleep.- Anonymous People who say life is a bed of roses usually complain about sleeping in thorns. Sleep is like the unicorn - it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any - Anonymous A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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