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.
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
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
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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