When your stomach is empty and your mind is full, it’s always hard to sleep.
What about sleeping a little longer and forgetting all this nonsense.[Wie wäre es, wenn ich noch ein wenig weiterschliefe und alle Narrheiten vergäße.]
To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.
The sleep of reason breeds monsters.[Goya]
One is the sleeping dog – well and good, but the sleeping dog can be roused.
We sleepwalk through our lives, because how could we live if we were always this awake?
Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting![Si le sommeil est notre meilleur ami, c’est un ami qui souvent se fait bien attendre!]
The sea was as dark as dreams and as deep as sleep.
The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with the covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing.
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.[Der Schlaf borgt vom Tode zur Aufrechthaltung des Lebens. Oder: er ist der einstweilige Zins des Todes, welcher selbst die Kapitalabzahlung ist. Diese wird um so später eingefordert, je reichlichere Zinsen und je regelmäßiger sie gezahlt werden.]
Sleep is a most capricious divinity, and it is exactly when you invoke her that she refuses to come.[Le sommeil est une divinité fort capricieuse, et c’est justement lorsqu’on l’invite qu’elle se fait attendre.]
Sleep has no place it can call its own.
