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Quotes About Sleep

Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
~ Immanuel Kant
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
~ Michel de Montaigne
They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.
~ Adam Garcia
Those who hate to go to bed fear death; those who hate to get up fear life.
~ W. H. Auden
Meditation will change your life for the better, enhance your physical health, improve your sleep, and help you achieve your goals, both material and spiritual.
~ Deepak Chopra
Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife, the years from off your life, my friend! the years that death takes off my life, he'll take from off the other end!
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Over the course of several years, if I didn't respect my brain's need for sleep, my sensory systems experienced agonizing pain and I became psychologically and physically depleted.
~ Jill Bolte Taylor
My only relief is to sleep. When I'm sleeping, I'm not sad, I'm not angry, I'm not lonely, I'm nothing.
~ Jillian Medoff
It was an elegant trap, one which had claimed the sanity of many libriomancers over the years. As you exhausted yourself physically and mentally, your judgment eroded as well, leading you to make mistakes when you could least afford them. Sleep was the best cure. Naturally, insomnia was a common side effect of magic use.
~ Jim C. Hines
I believe depression is legitimate. But I also believe that if you don't exercise, eat nutritious food, get sunlight, get enough sleep, consume positive material, surround yourself with support, then you aren't giving yourself a fighting chance.
~ Jim Carrey
I sleep on a tar roof scream my songs into lazy floods of stars… a white powder paddles through blood and heart and the returns pure and easy… This city is on my side.
~ Jim Carroll
You worry too much. Take a shower and get some sleep. You'll feel much better later.' She was precious, my wife. If she couldn't screw it or spend it, she'd sleep on it. And either way, wasn't it better than worrying?
~ Jim Cirni
What has prepared Heather for her life in the Burrow? Sleep, being hit over the head once in sixth grade and losing consciousness for a minute, waking up to find out someone had pushed her off the swings. A life made of air
~ Jim Krusoe
We survive on too little sleep, wolf down fast foods on the run, fuel up with coffee and cool down with alcohol and sleeping pills. Faced with relentless demands at work, we become short-tempered and easily distracted. We return home from long days at work feeling exhausted and often experience our families not as a source of joy and renewal, but as one more demand in an already overburdened life.
~ Jim Loehr
I'm on so late I'm definitely the last seconds of anyone's attention. So I just want to give them something dumb to laugh at, so they go, 'That's funny ' then fall asleep.
~ Jimmy Fallon
A joke by fellow Texan and humorist Jack Handey sprang to mind: When I die, I want to go peacefully like my grandfather did—in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car.
~ Jinx Schwartz
so I ate a salad, no wine, popped those two aspirins prescribed by Jan, and slept like a baby, except I didn't toss and turn, pee in my pants, or cry every two hours.
~ Jinx Schwartz
My domestic partner describes me as having "penetrating sanity," but partly that's because he can sleep through anything, and partly it's because he believes in the power of suggestion.
~ Jo Ann Beard
I breath in and out through my mouth to feel the quiet. In. Out. Over and over. Until I fall asleep.
~ Jo Knowles
A gente devia poder parar de estar tão acordado, quando precisasse, e adormecer seguro, salvo.
~ João Guimarães Rosa
Good night, Owe," she whispered. "Good night, Red. Sleep tight. Don't let the bedbugs bite." "You would have to mention bugs," she muttered. Owen laughed.
~ Joan Johnston
To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.
~ Joan Klempner
Sleep is just a good idea. I bow to the god caffeine.
~ Jo-Ann Mapson