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97,773. I’m so tired. I need my sleep; I make no bones about it. I need eight hours a day and ten at night and I’m good. (Comedy & Sleep) Bill Hicks, Sane Man *****
136,260. Listen, man, sleep gives you cancer, everyone knows that. (Comedy & Sleep) The Young Ones s1e2: Boring, Neil to Rick in broom cupboard
1,083. Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep. (Life’s Like That & Sleep) Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life 1978
81,126. It is illegal to sleep naked. (Minnesota & Sleep & Naked) Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! 2006
83,122. Most glorious night!
Thou wert not made for slumber. (Night & Sleep) Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage III:93
83,123. Dusky like night, but night with all her stars,
Or cavern sparkling with its native spars;
With eyes that were a language and a spell,
A form like Aphrodites in her shell,
With all her loves around her on the deep,
Voluptuous as the first approach of sleep. (Night & Sleep) Lord Byron, The Island
88,611. Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep,
And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. Lord Byron
1,169. When will this fearful slumber have an end? ...
Now is a time to storm! (Life’s Like That & Sleep & Storm) William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus III i 251 & 264, Titus to Marcus & Marcus to Titus
88,580. I have an exposition of sleep come upon me. William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream IV i 43
88,581. O sleep, O gentle sleep,
Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down
And steep my senses in forgetfulness? William Shakespeare, II Henry IV III i 5-8 & 31, King Henry to self
4,601. Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep a-nights. (Man & Fat & Fear & Sleep) William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar I ii 193-194, Caesar
88,582. Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber.
Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies
Which busy care draws in the brains of men. ibid. II i 229-231, Brutus
4,606. What is a man
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed? (Man & Sleep & Food) William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Hamlet soliloquy, IV iv 33-35
88,583. There are a kind of men
So loose of soul that in their sleeps
Will mutter their affairs. William Shakespeare, Othello III iii 420-421, Iago
88,584. Sleep shall neither night nor day
Hang upon his pent-house lid.
He shall live a man forbid.
Weary se’nnights nine times nine
Shall he dwindle, peak, and pine:
Though his bark cannot be lost,
Yet it shall be tempest-tost. William Shakespeare, Macbeth I iii 19
88,585. Methought I heard a voice cry, ‘Sleep no more!
Macbeth doth murder sleep,’ the innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave 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. ibid. II ii 36
88,586. Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor
Shall sleep no more, Macbeth shall sleep no more! ibid. II ii 43
88,587. Shake off this downy sleep, death’s counterfeit,
And look on death itself! up, up, and see
The great doom’s image! ibid. II iii 83
88,588. Alonso: What, all so soon asleep? I wish mine eyes
Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts – I find
They are inclined to do so.
88,589. Sebastian: Do not omit the heavy offer of it,
It seldom visits sorrow; when it doth,
It is a comforter. William Shakespeare, The Tempest II I @196
46,006. The honey heavy dew of slumber. (Shakespeare & Sleep) Julius Caesar 2012 starring Paterson Joseph & Ray Fearon & Cyril Nri & Adjoa Andoh & Jeffery Kissoon et al, director Gregory Duran RSC production *****
46,037. O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature’s soft nurse ... Steep my senses in forgetfulness. (Shakespeare & Sleep) The Hollow Crown: Henry IV part II 2012 ***** BBC starring Jeremy Irons & Simon Russell Beale & Tom Hiddleston & Alun Armstrong & David Bamber & Julie Walters & Niamh Cusack & David Dawson & Michaelle Dockery et al, director Richard Eyre, King
2,142. Living is an illness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It’s a palliative. The remedy is death. (Life's Like That & Illness & Sleep & Death) Nicolas-Sebastien Chamfort
7,131. Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind. (Read & Sleep & Brain & Mind) Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
8,486. I think a lot of alien abduction accounts are in fact elaborations of sleep paralysis. (UFOs & Sleep) Professor Susan Blackmore
8,525. The more I hear about abduction stories particularly the ones that happen in bed at night when people are asleep, the more I can see the similarities between that and what’s called sleep paralysis. (Aliens & Sleep) Professor Susan Blackmore
9,151. How wonderful is Death,
Death and his brother Sleep! (Death & Sleep) Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab
9,224. We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits which are the house of life. (Death & Sleep) Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici
9,409. Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I’ve heard people talk about the sleep of the dead. Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that’s what it’s like, I wouldn't mind. If that’s what dying is like, I wouldn’t mind that at all. (Death & Sleep) Gayle Forman, If I Stay
9,457. One day we’ll wake up. If we wake up at all that is. And our so-called civilisation will have vanished overnight. (Christmas & Sleep & Civilisation) Alan Ayckbourn, Season’s Greetings premiered 1980; BBC production 1986 starring Michael Cashman & Barbara Flynn & Nicky Henson & Anna Massey & Geoffrey Palmer & Peter Vaughan et al, director Michael A Simpson, Harvey to Clive
21,403. I bet I know why you couldn’t sleep. You’ve been drinking too much. Don’t you think you ought to take it easy. (GBH Films & Sleep & Film Noir & Drink) The Sound of Fury 1950 starring starring Frank Lovejoy & Lloyd Bridges & Kathleen Ryan & Richard Carlson & Katherine Locke & Adale Jergens & Art Smith et al, director Cyril Endfield, her to him
23,083. I’ll sleep when he’s dead. Gone 2012 starring Amanda Seyfried & Daniel Sunjata & Jennifer Carpenter & Sebastian Stan & Wes Bentley & Katherine Moennig & Machael Pare & Joel David Moore & Nick Searcy & Hunter Parrish et al, director Heitor Dhalia, sister to rozzer
24,626. Sleep can interfere ... [with opportunity]: 103rd Rule of Acquisition. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine & Sleep) Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Rules of Acquisition s2e7, Ferengi female to Quark
29,198. Was I the only one who couldn’t sleep that night? Was it the moon? How I longed for him. (United States of America & Sleep) Hyde Park on Hudson 2012 starring Bill Murray & Laura Linney & Samuel West & Olivia Colman & Elizabeth Marvel & Olivia Williiams & Elizabeth Wilson & Andrew Havill et al, director Roger Michell, her
50,575. The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shews in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but an instant, fled to Heaven: and the gross air of the world has not had time to breathe upon the changing dust it hallowed. (Sadness & Sleep) Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
70,515. I went to the doctor last week. I said: ‘Can I have some sleeping pills for the wife?’ He said: ‘Why?’ I said: ‘She’s woke up.’ (Doctor & Sleep) Les Dawson