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Quotes About Sleep

There is a kitsch of death. For example, death transformed into sweet sleep: The 'good night, sweet prince' of the last scene of Hamlet.
~ Saul Friedlander
You will not be able to enjoy a good night's sleep unless you've worked hard during the day
~ Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better, [Cloquet thought, ] while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
~ Woody Allen, Side Effects
I finally just slept with my high school crush. But I swear; now he expects me to go to his graduation - like I know where I'm going to be in three years.
~ Amy Schumer
I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.
~ Fanny Burney
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
~ Dale Carnegie
People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a placid ecstasy, and ease of heart, that are like honey on the tongue.
~ Isak Dinesen
Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.
~ Anton Chekhov
...one of the ways in which cats show happiness is by sleeping.
~ Cleveland Amory
Happiness in simplicity can be achieved with a flexible mindset and nine hours sleep each night.
~ Dalai Lama
Early to bed and early to rise makes a person dull, boring, and despised.
~ Ernie J Zelinski
Less than 7 hours of sleep at night causes lower overall brain function.
~ Daniel Amen
Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
~ Jean Kerr
Sleep is a healing balm for every ill.
~ Menander
As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.
~ Jerzy Kosinski
Before redeye flights, I drink copious amounts of herbal brews to help me relax and fall asleep after takeoff.
~ Ruzwana Bashir
[about the Hotel Marmont on Sunset Blvd., a piece of Hollywood history] I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
~ Billy Wilder
Death for the Christian is to fall asleep in the arms of Jesus and waking up and finding out that you're home.
~ Alistair Begg
You should be certain that angels are protecting you when you go to sleep. Yea, that they are protecting you also in all your business, whether you enter or leave your home.
~ Martin Luther
It's much easier for me to sleep in space than it is back home. We sleep in a cabin, and you can float inside.
~ Kevin A. Ford
my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
I'm generally so disoriented during the week about what I'm doing and where I am - I travel a lot - that when I'm home on a Sunday, I typically try to sleep in as much as I can.
~ Mike Birbiglia
All the honors of men in a state of sleep are as nothing.
~ Neville Goddard