To sleep! perchance to dream; ay, there’s the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause.
William Shakespeare
leeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
Friedrich Nietzsche
One hour’s sleep before midnight is worth three after.
Many things–such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly–are done worst when we try hardest to do them.
Soft closer of our eyes! Low murmur of tender lullabies!
If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
Dale Carnegie
I wasn’t really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness.
No day is so bad it can’t be fixed with a nap.
Carrie Snow
Sometimes I stay up so late that I have my morning coffee before I go to bed.
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
Edward Lucas
Sleep, rest of nature, O sleep, most gentle of the divinities, peace of the soul, thou at whose presence care disappears, who soothest hearts wearied with daily employments, and makest them strong again for labour!
Night has brought to those who sleep, only dreams they can not keep.
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.
Leo J. Burke
Sleep is like the unicorn – it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any
Life is something that happens when you can’t get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz
Sleep is the best meditation.
It’s a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it’s light out.
Bill Watterson
There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night’s sleep
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
Charles Caleb Colton
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.
Irish Proverb
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
Life is too short to sleep on low thread-count sheets.
Leah Stussy
Every second i shut my eyes it is him i see.
Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience – unless they are still up.
Ellen Goodman
Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber! Holy angels guard they bed! Heavenly blessings without number Gently falling on thy head.
Isaac Watts
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.
Sleep… Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death. ~Author unknown, various wordings commonly attributed to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, and Journey to the Center of the Earth
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book
Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.
No day is so bad it can’t be fixed with a nap
There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.
He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.
Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
Clifton Fadiman
Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
Ambrose Bierce
To sleep is an act of faith
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
Gaston Bachelard
SLEEP – Those little slices of death, how I loathe them.
If people were meant to pop out of bed, we’d all sleep in toasters.
Life is something that happens when you can’t get to sleep.
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
Living is a disease from which sleep gives us relief eight hours a day.
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he’d make a fortune.
Griff Niblack
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
Charlotte Bronte
There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.
Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
Thomas Dekker
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.
Baltasar Gracian
People who snore always fall asleep first.
Life is something that happens when you can’t get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz
Without enough sleep, we all become tall two-year-olds.
JoJo Jensen
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
Homer
When you have insomnia, you’re never really asleep, and you’re never really awake.
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.
Leo J. Burke
The best cure for insomnia is a Monday morning.
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
Mark Twain
The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
Plutarch
There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock.
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
Baltasar Gracien
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
John Steinbeck
Even where sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.
Homer
Nothing cures insomnia like the realization that it’s time to get up.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
Anthony Burgess
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
Plutarch
If you want your spouse to listen and pay strict attention to every word you say, talk in your sleep.
The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.
E. Joseph Cossman
A professor is one who talks in someone else’s sleep.
Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night… without the satisfaction.
Lynn Johnston
Fatigue is the best pillow.
Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Benjamin Franklin
I’m not asleep… but that doesn’t mean I’m awake.
I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.
Bible
Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals.
Vladimir Nabokov
Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.
Anonymous
He giveth His beloved sleep.
Sleep ’til you’re hungry, eat ’til you’re sleepy.
If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Dale Carnegie
Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine.
I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
Francois Rabelais
To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.
The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.
Wilson Mizener
When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‘Did you sleep good?’ I said ‘No, I made a few mistakes.’
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
Colette
I guess staying up late is good preparation for sweet dreams.
Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.
George Allen
Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
It appears that every man’s insomnia is as different from his neighbour’s as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Death’s brother, Sleep.
To all, to each, a fair goodnight, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
How do people go to sleep? I’m afraid I’ve lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.
Dorothy Parker
Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care, The death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, Chief nourisher in life’s feast.
Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.
Jessamyn West
Over my slumber your loving watch keep – Rock me to sleep, mother; rock me to sleep.
The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can’t get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
Edgar Watson Howe
Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature’s soft nurse.
William Shakespeare