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Quotes About Sleep

Happiness is waking up, looking at the clock, and finding that you still have two hours left to sleep.
~ Charles M. Schultz
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
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
The sun shall shine in ages yet to be, The musing moon illumine pastures dim, And afterwards a new nativity For all who slept the dreamless interim.
~ Nathalia Crane
It's amazing when you get to a certain age, and you talk about sleep in the same way you spoke about getting inebriated... I got eight hours last night. It was fantastic!
~ Johnny Depp
I don't generally feel anything until noon then it's time for my nap.
~ Bob Hope
Hush now, 'tis time to sleep and dream secrets of long ago.
~ Jan Reid, Deep Water Tears
Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we're not alone in the universe, even in sleep.
~ Adrienne Rich
I have three phobias ...: I hate going to bed, get up and hate hate being alone.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
I'm up all night against my will My medicine won't let me feel anything at all The doctor gave me sleeping pills and I took one Then I feel all alone, sleeping like a stone.
~ Joseph Arthur
It's amazing what sleep does for your looks.
~ Emily Procter
He has come into a wakefulness as quiet as sleep.
~ Wendell Berry
However interesting and lovely my days were, I could get from one day to the next only by passing through a night. I have, it is true, known lovely nights here; nights of sound sleep and good dreams and nights made wakeful by happy thoughts. but I have not always been a good sleeper, and my thoughts at night have sometimes been far from happy.
~ Wendell Berry
He is long past sleep now. His mind has begun to work on the agenda that it sets for itself, and he knows that he will not be able to stop it.
~ Wendell Berry
An ocean without monsters would be like sleep without dreams.
~ Werner Herzog
The Sleep lasted six hours. For most of that time John lay beside Miriam watching the shadows.
~ Whitley Strieber
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar …" —WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
~ Whitley Strieber
I want to die in my sleep like my friend... Not yelling like the passengers in his car.
~ Wil Shriner
You're tired. Sleep well tonight and tomorrow we'll see how far this reef runs - then we'll start some scheming.
~ Wilbur Smith
Voices of boys were by the river-side. Sleep mothered them; and left the twilight sad.
~ Wilfred Owen
No man when conscious attains to true or inspired intuition, but rather when the power of intellect is fettered in sleep or by disease or dementia";
~ Will Durant
Memory is the hotel curtain that never completely closes. Memory always lets in just enough light to fill the room and ruin your sleep.
~ Will Ferguson
Dan slept throughout - but a man who sleeps with his head lying on a phone table can never really sleep with a clean conscience
~ Will Self
There is a place where Contrarieties are equally true. This place is called Beulah. it is a pleasant lovely Shadow, where no dispute can come, because of those who sleep.
~ William Blake