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Sleep Quotes - Page 140

A man is known to be mortal by two things, Sleep and Lust.

George Herbert (1856). “The Works of George Herbert, in Prose and Verse: Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, Incumbent of Bear Wood. With Illustrations”, p.339

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

George Henry Borrow (1843). “The Bible in Spain; Or the Journeys, Adventures and Imprisonnements of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula”, p.344

A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty.

Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.373, Cambridge University Press

Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.

Franz Kafka, Nahum Norbert Glatzer (1974). “I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings”, Schocken

If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill.

Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group