Quotes About Sleep

For the first three years of his life, my son insisted on hearing 'Goodnight Moon' before bedtime. Like most babies, he was not a good sleeper by disposition - but reading seemed to help, and this book specifically became part of his whole wind-down ritual.

Dying, we tell ourselves, is like going to sleep. This figure of speech occurs very commonly in everyday thought and language, as well as in the literature of many cultures and many ages. It was apparently quite common even in the time of the ancient Greeks.

My life was taken up by road shows, election rallies and campaign speeches. I was clocking four to five hours of sleep every day.

I get a lot done considering I spend half my day sleeping.

I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel.

When I was a kid, I used to be afraid of the dark. I would stand at my door, turn the light off and dive into bed. One night, as I did that, there was this gigantic spider next to my pillow. I hit the bed and bounced straight back up When I turned the light back on, it was already gone. I could not sleep in my room for days.

If I see a spider in my room, I gotta sleep on the couch for, like, two days.

Spiders keep me awake at night. If I see one that's too big to get under a glass, there will be big problems. I'll spend the rest of the day feeling like I'm being terrorised by this missing spider.

I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

For the sake of your marriage, get a king-size bed. And if you really want to stay married, get two.

I have never been able to sleep with anyone. I require a full-size bed so that I can lie in the middle of it and extend my arms spreadeagle on both sides without being obstructed.

A bachelor is a man who can take a nap on top of a bedspread.

One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour.

I studied, I met with medical doctors, scientists, and I'm here to tell you that the way to a more productive, more inspired, more joyful life is: getting enough sleep.

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Excuses are the cradle ... that Satan rocks men off to sleep in.

When men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large white flakes falling on the city brown, Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying, Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town.

After love, the man sleeps, while the woman reflects.

For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.

Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's "yes," all's well. That is enough.

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

God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on.