Sleep Quotes

I’m the type of person that tries to fall back asleep in the morning just to finish a dream.

To sleep perchance to dream

What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts.

You have found that you were more secure before you accumulated so much. See what greed has imposed on you: You have filled your house and now you fear burglars. You have hoarded money and lost sleep. See what greed has commanded you: "Do this!" And you did it.

The self persists like a dying star, In sleep, afraid.

I'm not one of those people who is trying to act like I don't sleep. I used to be like, "Oh, I only need four hours." Now I need exactly 5 1/2 to 6 in order to feel like I've done well.

Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream—For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause, there's the respect, That makes calamity of so long life

I was awakened at midnight by some heavy, low-flying bird, probably a loon, flapping by close over my head, along the shore. So, turning the other side of my half-clad body to the fire, I sought slumber again.

Sleep is no mean art.

Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.

You lack the season of all natures, sleep.

Sometimes I fall asleep at night with my clothes on. I'm going to have all my clothes made out of blankets.

Sleep is like the unicorn - it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.

I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful.

Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.

What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? Young son, it argues a distemper'd head So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed: Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie; But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.

Sleep comes more easily than it returns.

The female that loves unrequited sleeps,And the male that loves unrequited sleeps,The head of the money-maker that plotted all day sleeps,And the enraged and treacherous dispositions, all, all sleep.

I sleep in the nude but I pull the sheets up.

sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.

Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon drop off.

I'm really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I'm out; I'm asleep for takeoff.

Oh, insomnia! Ah, well, I know a good cure for it... Get plenty of sleep.

I love to sleep. Do you? Isn't it great? It really is the best of both worlds. You get to be alive and unconscious.

Sleeping is the height of genius

Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder.

O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse.

Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.

People say, 'I'm going to sleep now,' as if it were nothing. But it's really a bizarre activity. 'For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I'm going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life.

The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.

Sleep can completely change your entire outlook on life. One good night's sleep can help you realize that you shouldn't break up with someone, or you are being too hard on your friend, or you actually will win the race or the game or get the job. Sleep helps you win at life.

My brain and body and nervous system, they see a plane ride, a long plane trip, as an opportunity to sleep with nothing coming in, nothing to do. I just go offline the minute I'm on the plane.

You must sleep sometime between lunch and dinner, and no halfway measures. Take off your clothes and get into bed. That's what I always do.

I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long.

I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.

Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more!Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep,Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve 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...

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

Depending upon my activities, I sleep between five and ten hours every night. I sleep in an extra-wide single bed, and I use only one heavy down comforter over me, summer or winter. I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.

What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.

Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

Certainly, Lu. Whatever you like,' said Peter unexpectedly. This was encouraging, but as Peter instantly rolled round and went to sleep again it wasn't much use.

O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?

O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?

Sleep helps you win at life.

It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.

Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?

I go to bed early; my favorite dream comes on at nine.

Death-counterfeiting sleep.

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

Happiness in simplicity can be achieved with a flexible mindset and nine hours sleep each night.

Please don't wake me, no, don't shake me, leave me where I am, I'm only sleeping.

If you can cultivate wholesome mental states prior to sleep and allow them to continue right into sleep without getting distracted, then sleep itself becomes wholesome.

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

When I was going through menopause, I didn't sleep. I didn't sleep for two years and ended up blowing out my thyroid, and I became nonfunctional. It's difficult to remain fully present if I'm not getting enough sleep, so I work at getting enough.

Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye.

The only time I have problems is when I sleep.