Sleepers

Notable quotes

“R. Hanina said: One may not sleep in a house alone [in a lonely house], and whoever sleeps in a house alone is seized by Lilith.”
— Babylonian Talmud on Tractate Shabbath 151b
“It's not the sort of night for bed anyhow; and daybreak is not so very far off...”
— The Rat in The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, (1908)
“He that sleeps feels not the tooth-ache.”
— William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (1611), Act V, scene 4, line 177.
“"That was an overdraft on tomorrow—I know I need to pay it back with quiet and sleep."”
— Alexander Wright in Listening for a Lifetime, Hearing Health Foundation (16 December 2025)
“Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.”
— Proverbs, XXIII. 21.
“Tu dors, Brutus, et Rome est dans les fers.”
— Thou sleepest, Brutus, and yet Rome is in chains.

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