People would rather sleep their way through life than stayawake for it.

-Albee, Edward Franklin, III
Quoted in  Joseph F McCrindle (ed) Behind the Scenes (1971).

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. And never, ever, nomatter whatelse you do in your whole life, never sleep with anyone whose troubles are worse than your own.

-Algren, Nelson
  In Newsweek, 2  Jul.  Algren claimed that these were his only principles, taught him by 'a nice old Negro lady'.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

-Allen,Woody pseudonym of  Allen Stewart Konigsberg
  'The Scrolls', in The New Republic, 31  Aug.

Is there any room at your head, Sanders? Is there any room at your feet? Or any room at your twa sides, Where fain, fain I would sleep? There is nae room at my head, Margaret, There is nae room at my feet; My bed it is the cold, cold grave; Among the hungry worms I sleep.

-Ballads
'Clerk Sanders'.

Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations.

-Barnes, Djuna
  Doctor. Nightwood, ch.5.

: Oh, but thou dost not know What 'tis to die. :Yes, I do know, my Lord: 'Tis less than to be born; a lasting sleep; A quiet resting from all jealousy, A thing we all pursue; I know besides, It is but giving over of a game, That must be lost.

-Beaumont, Francis and Fletcher,John
     PHILASTERBELLARIO1609  Philaster (published1620), act 3, sc.1.

And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the L is in this place; and I knew it not.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDGenesis 28:16.

Except the L build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the L keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDPsalms127:1^2.

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs 6:10^11.

Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of aneye, atthelasttrump: for thetrumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians15:51^2.

I am well as long as I live on horseback†sleep out-of- doors, or in a log cabin, and lead in all respects a completely unconventional life. But each time for a few days†I have become civilised, I have found myself rapidly going down again.

-Bird, Isabella married name Isabella Bishop
  A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains.

Nor will the sweetest delight of gardens afford much comfort in sleep; wherein the dullness of that sense shakes hands with delectable odours; and though in the bed of Cleopatra, can hardly with any delight raise up the ghost of a rose.

-Browne, SirThomas
  The Garden of Cyrus, ch.5.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.

-Browning, Robert
  Asolando, epilogue.

Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.

-Bunyan,John
  The Pilgrim's Progress, pt.1.

   Ay waukin,O, Waukin still and weary: Sleep I can get nane, For thinkin on my Dearie.

-Burns, Robert
  'Ay waukin O', chorus.

And yet, amidst that joyand uproar, Let us think of them that sleep, Full manya fathom deep, By thy wild and stormy steep, Elsinore!

-Campbell,Thomas
  'The Battle of the Baltic', stanza 8.

My good friends, this is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time.Go home and have a nice, quiet sleep. See also Disraeli 277:85.

-Chamberlain, (Arthur) Neville
  Speech from the window of No.10 Downing Street to the crowds outside, 30 Sep, having returned that day from signing the Munich  Agreement. The earlier peace referred to was the Treaty of Berlin which Beaconsfield brought back in1878.

Vivre est une maladie dont le sommeil nous soulage toutes les16 heures. C'est un palliatif. La mort est le reme'  de. Living is an illness to which sleep provides relief every16 hours.It's a palliative. Death is the remedy.

-Chamfort, Se¤  bastien-Roch Nicolas
Maximes et Pense¤  es (1795), ch.2.

   This afternoon I slept for two hours in the Library of the House of Commons. A deep House of Commons sleep. There is no sleep to compare with itörich, deep, and guilty.

-Channon, Sir Henry
Attributed.

O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway.

-Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
  'The Rime of the  Ancient Mariner', pt.7.