“The moon has set,
And the Pleiades.
Midnight.
The hour has gone by.
I sleep alone.”
Stanley Lombardo (1943) Philosopher, Classicist
Frag. 72
Translations, Sappho's Poems and Fragments (2002)
“876. One houre's sleepe before midnight is worth three after.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
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“The moon has set,
And the Pleiades.
Midnight.
The hour has gone by.
I sleep alone.”
Sappho (-630–-570 BC) ancient Greek lyric poet
Stanley Lombardo translations, Frag. 72
“A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.”
Joanne Harris book Chocolat
Source: Chocolat
“I don’t need much sleep, three hours is enough for me.”
Narendra Modi (1950) Prime Minister of India
2014, "GhoshanaPatra with Narendra Modi", 2014
Context: Usually I get up at 5, it’s a habit I have had since I was in the RSS. I don’t need much sleep, three hours is enough for me. My friends and my doctors complain that it is too less, but it is sufficient for me. You can see, I have worked all day but even now I am sitting here easily talking to you.
“These be
Three silent things:
The falling snow…the hour
Before the dawn…the mouth of one
Just dead.”
Adelaide Crapsey (1878–1914) American writer
Triad.
Verses (1915)
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
Variant: Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?
Source: Either/Or, Part I
Aubrey Thomas de Vere (1814–1902) Irish poet and critic
Song. Softly, O Midnight Hours; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 721.
“Homeless, homeless,
Moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake.”
Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer
Homeless
Song lyrics, Graceland (1986)
“I can sleep like a champion. I once slept through a smoke alarm going off. For three hours.”
Maureen Johnson book Let It Snow
Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
Bhakti Tirtha Swami (1950–2005) American Hindu writer
Source: Books, Spiritual Warrior, Volume I: Uncovering Spiritual Truths in Psychic Phenomena (Hari-Nama Press, 1996), Chapter 1: Dreams: A State of Reality, p. 23