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Quotes About Sleep

The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home.
~ Larry Ferguson
I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Truly, hope is the saint's covering, wherein he wraps himself, when he lays his body down to sleep in the grave: "My flesh," saith David, "shall rest in hope."
~ William Gurnall
Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.
~ Tommy Cooper
Take a nap in a fireplace and you'll sleep like a log.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long.
~ Mitch Hedberg
I dreamt I was forced to eat 25lb of marshmallows. When I woke up, my pillow was missing.
~ Chic Murray
If you can't sleep, count sheep. Don't count endangered animals. You will run out.
~ Mitch Hedberg
Snoring keeps the monsters away.
~ Judy Blume, Fudge-a-Mania
I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.
~ George Best
I don't know if you've ever fallen asleep whilst eating a plate of cauliflower, and then woken up, and thought you were in the clouds.
~ Milton Jones
But I'm really enjoying my retirement. I get to sleep in every day. I do crossword puzzles and eat cake.
~ Derek Landy, Mortal Coil
Sometimes I fall asleep at night with my clothes on. I'm going to have all my clothes made out of blankets.
~ Mitch Hedberg
When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.
~ Franz Kafka
You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.
~ Steven Wright
Even bipolar vampires needed sleep from time to time, and he was well past his recommended safe dosage of stress.
~ Rachel Caine, Black Dawn
And now to sleep, to dream...perchance to fart.
~ Anthony Bourdain
My doctor says I must not have any serious conversation after seven [o'clock]. It makes me talk in my sleep.
~ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
When you sleepI will creepInto your thoughtsLike a bad debtThat you can't payTake the easy wayand give in!
~ Morrissey
Ah, Proph." Tom paused. "You did have a nightmare last night.""And here I thought maybe I dreamed it, " Prophet muttered sarcastically.
~ S.E. Jakes, Daylight Again
Food, " I suggested. "Sleep. That's what I need. To get the hell away from here."Cole frowned at me, as if I'd suggested "ducks" and "yoga".
~ Maggie Stiefvater, Forever
Then he kept to the back streets, and found a place that did a very reasonable double sausage, egg, bacon and fried slice, in the hope that food could replace sleep.
~ Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
Motherhood is a constant battle of wanting to go to bed early so you can catch up on sleep and wanting to stay awake so you can enjoy some peace and sanity!
~ Tanya Masse