Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera

(On sleep) Is it just the interval of life rudely interrupted by the static of having to please the boss at home or the one at the office or is it the waking state of cosmic beings where consciousness is just a human invention

He who goes to bed, and goes to bed sober, Falls as the leaves do, and dies in October But he who goes to bed, and goes to bed mellow, Lives as he ought to do, and dies an honest fellow

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed

Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence

Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfill all the offices of death, except to kill

How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the nightlight. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound if I can remember

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there