Homer Quotes about Sleep

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Sleep and Death, who are twin brothers.

Homer

Brother, Sleep, Twins

Iliad XVI.681

Being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep...in a giant blender.

Homer

Sleep, Giants, Blenders

Sweet sleep fell upon his eyelids, unwakeful, most pleasant, the nearest like death.

Homer

Sweet, Sleep, Eyelids

Homer, Theodore Alois William BUCKLEY (1851). “The Odyssey of Homer, with the Hymns, Epigrams, and Battle of the Frogs and Mice. Literally Translated with Explanatory Notes, by T. A. Buckley”, p.177

Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.

Homer

Sleep, Too Much, Concerned

Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death

Homer

Sleep, Profound, Counterfeit

Homer (1991). “The Odyssey”, Penguin Classics

These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them, or he can enjoy listening to stories, and you have no need to go to bed before it is time. Too much sleep is only a bore. And of the others, any one whose heart and spirit urge him can go outside and sleep, and then, when the dawn shows, breakfast first, then go out to tend the swine of our master. But we two, sitting here in the shelter, eating and drinking, shall entertain each other remembering and retelling our sad sorrows. For afterwards a man who has suffered much and wandered much has pleasure out of his sorrows.

Homer

Drinking, Heart, Sleep