“Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.”
7:72.
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ancient Greek physician -460–-370 BCRelated quotes
“His life is a watch or a vision
Between a sleep and a sleep.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic
Second chorus, lines 57-58.
Atalanta in Calydon (1865)
“An idler is a watch that wants both hands;
As useless when it goes as when it stands.”
Source: Retirement (1782), Line 681.
Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2
"Stranger in a Strange Land"
Lyrics, October (1981)
Context: I watched the way it was
The way it was when he was with us
And I really don't mind
Sleeping on the floor
But I couldn't sleep after what I saw
I wrote this letter to tell you
The way I feel.
“When he watched her sleeping, he often thought, My heart lies vulnerable outside my chest.”
Kresley Cole book A Hunger Like No Other
Source: A Hunger Like No Other
“Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.”
John Ford (dramatist) (1586–1639) dramatist
Act V, sc. i.
The Lover's Melancholy (1628)
“Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.”
Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead
Source: The Fountainhead