“Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.”
7:72.
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Hippocrates 33
ancient Greek physician -460–-370 BCRelated quotes
“His life is a watch or a vision
Between a sleep and a sleep.”
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.
"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.”
Source: A Hunger Like No Other
Bk. I, ch. 1
The Return of the Native (1878)
“Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.”
Act V, sc. i.
The Lover's Melancholy (1628)
“Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.”
Source: The Fountainhead