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Famous Sleep Quotes and Sayings

We hope you don’t read our famous sleep quotes and sayings collection and nod off — but we’d completely understand.

If some good shut-eye is not one of the concerns in your life, it means that you’re probably enjoying some good rest. But that is not the case with millions of others. A good night’s rest is a luxury many people can only dream of.

I hope you enjoy these insights on rest and sleep.

Best Sleep Quotes.

Quotes About Sleep

1.) Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
Thomas Dekker

2.) 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

3.) 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.
William Shakespeare

4.) No day is so bad it can’t be fixed with a nap.
Carrie Snow

5.) A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.
Irish Proverb

6.) Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
Mahatma Gandhi

7.) There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
Edward Lucas

8.) O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.
Thomas Hood

9.) Sleep is the best meditation.
Dalai Lama

Good at sleeping quote.

Can’t Sleep

10.) You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
Dr. Seuss

11.) Life is something that happens when you can’t get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz

12.) The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.
Patrick deWitt

13.) The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4 a.m. knows all my secrets.
Poppy Z. Brite

14.) Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.
Jessamyn West

15.) Think what devils chase a man who cannot sleep in his own house.
Warren Eyster

16.) Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
Anthony Burgess

Snoozing and Slumber

17.) And if tonight my soul may find her peace
in sleep, and sink in good oblivion,
and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower
then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.
D.H. Lawrence

18.) I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.
Mark Twain

19.) In the end, winning is sleeping better.
Jodie Foster

20.) Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
William Blake

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

22.) 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

23.) Happiness in simplicity can be achieved with a flexible mindset and nine hours of sleep each night.
Dalai Lama

24.) Never waste any time you can spend sleeping.
Frank H. Knight

25.) As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci

26.) Happiness consists of getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.
Robert A. Heinlein

Out Like A Rock

27.) Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Benjamin Franklin

28.) There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
Homer

29.) Death, so-called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
Lord Byron

29.) Yes; bless the man who first invented sleep
But blast the man with curses loud and deep,
Whate’er the rascal’s name, or age, or station,
Who first invented and went round advising,
That artificial cut-off,—Early Rising.
John Godfrey Saxe

30.) Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.
Edgar Allan Poe – Deep Poe Quotes

31.) I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
Rene Descartes

Funny Sleep Quotes

32.) I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway

33.) There is no hope for a civilization that starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock.
Unknown

34.) The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.
Wilson Mizener

35.) Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.
John Ciardi

36.) I’m so good at sleeping, I can do it with my eyes closed.
Unknown

37.) I’ve always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.
David Benioff

38.) I wasn’t really asleep. I was just meditating on unconsciousness.
Paul Bourget

39.) I think insomnia is a sign that a person is interesting.
Avery Sawyer

40.) Who said nights were for sleep?
Marilyn Monroe

41.) There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.
Mindy Kaling

Naps and Resting

42.) For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.
Steve Jobs

43.) A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor Hugo

44.) The future seems a little gloomy! Go to bed early, sleep well, eat moderately at breakfast; the future looks brighter. The world’s outlook may not have changed, but our capacity for dealing with it has.
Arthur Lynch

45.) I share the same advice that my mom gave me – stay hydrated and sleep well. And that being a beautiful person on the inside is what really matters.
Jessica Alba

46.) Strike deep, divide us from cheap-got doubt, Leap, leap between us and the easy out; Teach us to seize, to use, to sleep well, to let go; Let our loves, freed in us, gaudy and graceful, grow.
Marie Ponsot

47.) I sleep well. It’s the politicians who are to blame for failing to come to an agreement and resorting to violence.
Mikhail Kalashnikov

48.) Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings each day.
Mason Cooley

Power Napping

49.) There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
Ovid

50.) No day is so bad it can’t be fixed with a nap.
Carrie Snow

51.) Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.
Heraclitus

52.) Mother’s arms are made of tenderness, and sweet sleep blesses the child who lies within.
Victor Hugo

53.) I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.
Yogi Berra – More funny Yogi quotes.

Rest Quotes

54.) On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet.
Lord Byron

55.) Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.
Jon Stewart

56.) A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.
Marcel Proust

57.) Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night? Without the satisfaction.
Lynn Johnston

58.) The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.
E. Joseph Cossman

59.) No wonder Sleeping Beauty looked so good…she took long naps, never got old, and didn’t have to do anything but snore to get her Prince Charming.
Olive Green

60.) The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
Leonard Cohen

Link: How to get a good night’s sleep.

No Rest for the Weary

61.) He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
Benjamin Franklin

62.) Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
John Lubbock

63.) Remember that in order to be productive you also have to focus on relaxation.
Bogdan Ivanov

64.) Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else.
Martha Beck

65.) Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Plutarch

66.) Resting for me is fitness training.
Jenson Button

67.) No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you’d be more productive.
Dr. Joyce Brothers

68.) No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.
Jean-Paul

69.) What is without periods of rest will not endure.
Ovid

70.) Rest and be thankful.
William Wordsworth

71.) The man who doesn’t relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.
Elbert Hubbard

Short Sleep Quotes

72.) A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
Charlotte Brontë

73.) Any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime.
Red Skelton

74.) Without enough sleep, we all become tall two-year-olds.
JoJo Jensen

75.) A day without a nap is like a cupcake without frosting.
Terri Guillemets

76.) Tired minds don’t plan well. Sleep first, plan later.
Walter Reisch

77.) We are such stuff as dreams are made on.
William Shakespeare

78.) The nicest thing for me is sleep. Then at least I can dream.
Marilyn Monroe

79.) We count it as a certainty that everyone naps in paradise.
Unknown

80.) Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
Akira Kurosawa

81.) The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Inspiring Sleep Quotes

82.) Each day is a little life every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Arthur Schopenhauer

83.) The minute anyone’s getting anxious I say, ‘You must eat and you must sleep.’ They’re the two vital elements for a healthy life.
Francesca Annis

84.) True silence is the rest of the mind and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
William Penn

85.) Goodnight — may you fall asleep in the arms of a dream, so beautiful, you’ll cry when you awake.
Michael Faudet

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By Michael O’Halloran

About Michael O'Halloran

Michael O’Halloran founded Greeting Card Poet in 2014 and has worked as its publisher and editor ever since. He’s the author of Best Sports Slogans and Captions. He has co-authored four books on kids’ trivia and authored four books on coaching. Previously, Michael was the president of Magnetic Poetry. He has invented and brought over 75 new gift and toy products to market — most of them dealing with wordplay.

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