Quotes About The Necessity Of Sleep

#1. I've always loathed the necessity of sleep. Like death, it puts even the most powerful men on their backs.

Frank Underwood

#2. Sleeping in a bed
it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical.

Rose Macaulay

#3. All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.

D.H. Lawrence

#4. The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don't have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.

Sally Mann

#5. Work is as much a necessity to man as eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing that can be called work still imagine they are doing something. The world has not a man who is an idler in his own eyes.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#6. Still, they continued to be intermittent lovers for almost 30 years, thanks to their musketeers' motto : unfaithful but not disloyal.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#7. Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams.

Saint Basil

#8. [S]leep, and enough of it, is the prime necessity. Enough exercise, and good food and enough, are other necessities. But sleep - good sleep, and enough of it - this is a necessity without which you cannot have the exercise of use, nor the food.

Edward Everett Hale

#9. Sleep had ceased to be a mere physical necessity; it was something voluptuous, and debauch more than a relief.

George Orwell

#10. Christianity teaches righteousness, not rights. It emphasizes honor, not equality. A Christian's concern is what is owed to the other, not what is owed to himself.

Elisabeth Elliot

#11. The deep of night is crept upon our talk,
And Nature must obey necessity.

William Shakespeare

#12. Prayer, even more than eating or sleeping, is not a luxury but a necessity, and we are only fully human when we remember this and arrange our life accordingly.

Sheila Cassidy

#13. Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

Vincent Van Gogh

#14. As long as necessity is socially dreamed, dreaming will remain a social necessity. The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of that sleep.

Guy Debord

#15. What you can't buy is the loyalty that comes through our dedicated crewmembers.

David Neeleman

#16. I didn't have much confidence in myself ... never.

Maurice Sendak

#17. Sleep is not a luxury; it is a necessity.

Jennifer Waldburger