Henry the IV speaks to us

[[MT...]]

I came upon this quote today and thought of all of my fellow insomniacs. While what we have can be pretty extreme, there are plenty of folks who suffer without the curse of benzo wd:

 

"Shakespeare’s “Henry IV, Part 2”: O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frightened thee. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?"

 

Ah, sweet forgetfulness, how we crave thee!

[[te...]]

Awesome quote!!!

[[Fi...]]

Brilliant!

 

 

[[Sw...]]

Great quote!

[[Qu...]]

Great bit in Macbeth too, google "Macbeth does murder sleep"...

[[mu...]]

crazy to think how sleep has impacted so many people over so many generations......

[[al...]]

Having killed off 2 of his 6 wives, and many of his opponents, along with ordering the destruction of churches and works of art, Insomnia can be expected. Guilt and sleep don't make good bedfellows.

[[MT...]]

Great bit in Macbeth too, google "Macbeth does murder sleep"...

 

Maybe Macbeth has been on a murder spree with us Stupid Macbeth.

 

Murph, it is crazy to think that sleep has been an issue for humans for a long time. We may be a bit on the extreme side though...

[[Qu...]]

Having killed off 2 of his 6 wives, and many of his opponents, along with ordering the destruction of churches and works of art, Insomnia can be expected. Guilt and sleep don't make good bedfellows.

 

That was Henry VIII 

[[Cl...]]

I came upon this quote today and thought of all of my fellow insomniacs. While what we have can be pretty extreme, there are plenty of folks who suffer without the curse of benzo wd:

 

"Shakespeare’s “Henry IV, Part 2”: O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frightened thee. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?"

 

Ah, sweet forgetfulness, how we crave thee!

 

GREAT!

[[al...]]

Having killed off 2 of his 6 wives, and many of his opponents, along with ordering the destruction of churches and works of art, Insomnia can be expected. Guilt and sleep don't make good bedfellows.

 

That was Henry VIII 

 

I never was good with the English monarchs.

[[MT...]]

Ya think Henry VIII was maybe sleep deprived? Insomnia sure can make one consider homicide. Some of the looks I give folks may in fact cause death.

[[me...]]

Ya think Henry VIII was maybe sleep deprived? Insomnia sure can make one consider homicide. Some of the looks I give folks may in fact cause death.

[[Qu...]]

Having killed off 2 of his 6 wives, and many of his opponents, along with ordering the destruction of churches and works of art, Insomnia can be expected. Guilt and sleep don't make good bedfellows.

 

That was Henry VIII 

 

I never was good with the English monarchs.

 

You still know a lot more about them than I know about Hawaii 

I hope your sleep is improving Aloha.

[[al...]]

I never was good with the English monarchs.

 

You still know a lot more about them than I know about Hawaii 

I hope your sleep is improving Aloha.

 

Thanks Queen. My sleep has actually been pretty good for the past couple of nights.

[[Sh...]]

From Macbeth:

 

"The innocent sleep,

Sleep that knits up the raveled sleeve of care,

The death of each day's life,

Sore labor's bath,

Balm of hurt minds,

Great nature's second course,

Chief nourisher in life's feast"

[[MT...]]

She, great quote. I feel like I'm jonesing for a fix of what Macbeth describes.

[[wa...]]

Cool, MT -- I remember there was alot of sleeping in A Midsummer's Night Dream.  And I found the play within a play.  Escaping the troubles of the day through sleep is what I miss most.  “And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company.”   

WBB

[[Qu...]]

How about this from Don Quixote. Interesting that he puts sleep first:-

 

"...and bless the man who invented sleep, a cloak to cover over all human thought, food that drives away hunger, water that banishes thirst, fire that heats up cold, chill that moderates passion and, finally universal currency with which all things can be bought, weight and balance that brings the shepherd and the king, the fool and the wise, to the same level." Volume 2, Chapter 68, pg. 717

 

For those of us who always wake after four hours, some reassurance that it's a natural variation:-

 

"Don Quixote obeyed nature so far as to sleep his first sleep, but did not give way to the second, very different from Sancho, who never had any second, because with him sleep lasted from night till morning..."

 

 

 

 

 

[[MT...]]

How about this from Don Quixote. Interesting that he puts sleep first:-

 

"...and bless the man who invented sleep, a cloak to cover over all human thought, food that drives away hunger, water that banishes thirst, fire that heats up cold, chill that moderates passion and, finally universal currency with which all things can be bought, weight and balance that brings the shepherd and the king, the fool and the wise, to the same level." Volume 2, Chapter 68, pg. 717

 

For those of us who always wake after four hours, some reassurance that it's a natural variation:-

 

"Don Quixote obeyed nature so far as to sleep his first sleep, but did not give way to the second, very different from Sancho, who never had any second, because with him sleep lasted from night till morning..."

 

I love the quotes Queen. Some of this reminds me of "food porn"-the pictures folks with eating disorders or dieters will look at for some gratification. To help keep company with all of these literary quotes, here's something deep:

 

“But [Pooh] couldn't sleep. The more he tried to sleep the more he couldn't. He tried counting Sheep, which is sometimes a good way of getting to sleep, and, as that was no good, he tried counting Heffalumps. And that was worse. Because every Heffalump that he counted was making straight for a pot of Pooh's honey, and eating it all. For some minutes he lay there miserably, but when the five hundred and eighty-seventh Heffalump was licking its jaws, and saying to itself, "Very good honey this, I don't know when I've tasted better," Pooh could bear it no longer.”

― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

[[Qu...]]

 

I love the quotes Queen. Some of this reminds me of "food porn"-the pictures folks with eating disorders or dieters will look at for some gratification. To help keep company with all of these literary quotes, here's something deep:

 

“But [Pooh] couldn't sleep. The more he tried to sleep the more he couldn't. He tried counting Sheep, which is sometimes a good way of getting to sleep, and, as that was no good, he tried counting Heffalumps. And that was worse. Because every Heffalump that he counted was making straight for a pot of Pooh's honey, and eating it all. For some minutes he lay there miserably, but when the five hundred and eighty-seventh Heffalump was licking its jaws, and saying to itself, "Very good honey this, I don't know when I've tasted better," Pooh could bear it no longer.”

― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

 

I love that one, MT, never read it before. 

 

There are loads of them in songs too, but they tend to get stuck in my head and have a negative impact, so I'm not going to inflict them on anyone here!