“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne book The Scarlet Letter
Source: The Scarlet Letter
"On Dreams"
The Plain Speaker (1826)
“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne book The Scarlet Letter
Source: The Scarlet Letter
“We sleep 1/3 of our lives away.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.”
William Shakespeare The Tempest
Prospero, Act IV, scene i.
Source: The Tempest (1611)
Dale Carnegie book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948), p. 110
“The greater part of our Body, of our Humanity itself, yet sleeps a deep sleep.”
Novalis (1772–1801) German poet and writer
Novalis (1829)
Context: Sleep is for the inhabitants of Planets only. In another time, Man will sleep and wake continually at once. The greater part of our Body, of our Humanity itself, yet sleeps a deep sleep.
“We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.”
Black Kettle (1803–1868) Leader of the Southern Cheyenne
Speaking to Colorado Governor Evans, Colonel Chivington, Major Wynkoop and others in Denver (Autumn 1864), as quoted in The Boy's Book about Indians : Being What I Saw and Heard for Three Years on the Plains (1873) by Edmund Bostwick Tuttle, p. 61
Context: We have come with our eyes shut, following Major Wynkoop's handful of men, like coming through the fire. All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father. We have been traveling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began. These braves who are with me are willing to do what I say. We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace. I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies. I have not come here with a little wolf bark, but have come to talk plain with you.
“Many solemn nights
Blond moon, we stand and marvel…
Sleeping our noons away”
Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet
Source: Japanese Haiku