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Quotes About Sleep

The Bible tells us clearly: Do not let the sun go down on your anger...In other words, don't go to bed angry. Get rid of your anger before you fall asleep...I can guarantee you this: If you go to bed angry, you will wake up angry.
~ Charles F. Stanley
The twilight is the morning of his day, While sleep drops seaward from the fading shore, With purpling sail and dip of silver oar, He cheers the shadowed time with roundelay, Until the dark east softens into gray...
~ Edwin Markham, "The Cricket"
With a butterfly kiss and a ladybug hug, Sleep tight little one, like a bug in a rug.
~ Author Unknown
For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
When our bed is made it's covered in forty pillows like we're stockpiling ammo for the global pillow fight.
~ Jim Gaffigan, King Baby, 2009
Bedtime reading is a doorway to dreams.
~ Terri Guillemets
Reading in bed jumpstarts dreams.
~ Terri Guillemets
After satisfaction, desire reposes in a cool and lucid sleep.
~ Aldous Huxley
May sleep envelop you as a bed sheet floating gently down, tickling your skin and removing every worry. Reminding you to consider only this moment.
~ Jeb Dickerson, @JebDickerson
DAWN, n. The time when men of reason go to bed.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Sleep was like a phantom I was too tired to chase.
~ Joseph R. Biden, Jr., 2008
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
~ Author Unknown
I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped. Life is in short cycles or periods; we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies. A man... sinks into deep sleep and wakes with renewed youth, with hope, courage, fertile in resources, and keen for daring adventure.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best cure for insomnia is a Monday morning.
~ Sandra Cooley, 1980s
What hath night to do with sleep?
~ John Milton
Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine.
~ Author Unknown
I had napped... earlier — dropping into a dreamless void as soon as the adrenaline left my system...
~ Abby Geni, The Wildlands, 2018
Ouderdom). Tussen klok en bed.
~ Gospodinov Georgi
When God wants people to stay asleep, they stay asleep.
~ Graciliano Ramos
Gut ist der Schlaf, der Tod ist besser
~ Graham Masterton
The net of the sleeper catches fish.
~ Greek proverb
The IRS received the following note: "Gentlemen: Enclosed you will find a check for $150. I cheated on my income tax return last year and have not been able to sleep ever since. If I still have trouble sleeping I will send you the rest.
~ Greg Ogden
A baby takes everything from you. Everything you were before." She waved a hand, a ghostly flicker in the blackness. "Your time. Your figure. Your looks. They take your sleep until you don't know how to function. But all that is just a disguise for the most important thing they take from you: your selfishness. And that's the true gift of parenthood.
~ Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.
~ Gregory Maguire