6 Sir Thomas Browne Quotes on Sleep

Sir Thomas Browne quotes on sleep

30. I am in no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company, yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.

31. We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.

33. Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.

34. Happy are they that go to bed with grave music.

36. That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed.

55. To keep our eyes open longer were but to set our Antipodes. The Huntsmen are up in America, and they are already past their first sleep in Persia. But who can be drowsy at that hour which freed us from everlasting sleep? or have slumbering thoughts at that time, when sleep itself must end, and as some conjecture all shall awake again?