Quotations About Sleep that will KNOCK YOU OUT

A comprehensive collection of the most soporific quotes about sleep, rest, dreams, and the nocturnal hours. Read them slowly, one by one, and feel your eyelids grow heavy.

THE NECESSITY OF SLEEP

1. "Sleep is the best meditation." — Dalai Lama
2. "A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book." — Irish Proverb
3. "Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together." — Thomas Dekker
4. "The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep." — E. Joseph Cossman
5. "Without enough sleep, we all become tall two-year-olds." — JoJo Jensen
6. "Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty." — Franz Kafka
7. "Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed." — Arthur Schopenhauer
8. "Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn." — Mahatma Gandhi
9. "Sleep is an investment in the energy you need to be effective tomorrow." — Tom Roth

INSOMNIA & SLEEPLESSNESS

1. "The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to." — F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. "Sleep is such a luxury, which I can't afford." — Robin Sikarwar
3. "I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?" — Ernest Hemingway
4. "O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, that thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down and steep my senses in forgetfulness?" — William Shakespeare
5. "The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets." — Poppy Z. Brite
6. "I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed." — David Benioff
7. "Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking." — Clifton Fadiman
8. "Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction." — Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
9. "I'm so good at sleeping that I can do it with my eyes closed." — Anonymous
10. "Insomnia is my greatest inspiration." — Jon Stewart

DREAMS & THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND

1. "Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you." — Marsha Norman
2. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." — Eleanor Roosevelt
3. "Dreams are the touchstones of our characters." — Henry David Thoreau
4. "Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions." — Edgar Cayce
5. "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." — Edgar Allan Poe
6. "Dreams are necessary to life." — Anaïs Nin
7. "Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious." — Sigmund Freud
8. "I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." — W.B. Yeats
9. "Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language." — Gail Godwin
10. "The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul." — Carl Jung

SLEEP AS ESCAPE

1. "I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use." — Fran Lebowitz
2. "Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion." — Audrey Niffenegger
3. "There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep." — Homer
4. "Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles." — Miguel de Cervantes
5. "Sleep: the most beautiful experience in life—except drink." — W.C. Fields
6. "Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep." — Fran Lebowitz
7. "Your future depends on your dreams, so go to sleep." — Mesut Barazany
8. "Sleep is my drug, my bed is my dealer, and my alarm clock is the police." — Anonymous
9. "I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at four in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today." — George Foreman
10. "Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor." — John Ciardi

SLEEP DEPRIVATION & EXHAUSTION

1. "A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow." — Charlotte Brontë
2. "Sleep deprivation is the most common brain impairment." — William Dement
3. "Fatigue is the best pillow." — Benjamin Franklin
4. "The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more." — Wilson Mizner
5. "Tired minds don't plan well. Sleep first, plan later." — Walter Reisch
6. "I'm not asleep… but that doesn't mean I'm awake." — Anonymous
7. "Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, the death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast." — William Shakespeare
8. "Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep." — Mahatma Gandhi
9. "To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep." — Joan Klempner
10. "A well-spent day brings happy sleep." — Leonardo da Vinci

REST & RESTORATION

1. "Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work." — Ralph Marston
2. "Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time." — John Lubbock
3. "Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop." — Ovid
4. "Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you." — Anne Lamott
5. "There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither." — Alan Cohen
6. "Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax." — Mark Black
7. "Sleep is the real beauty secret, but I don't get enough of that." — Chelsea Leyland
8. "Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care." — Buddha
9. "Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica." — J.G. Ballard

SLEEP & PRODUCTIVITY

1. "The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep." — W.C. Fields
2. "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
3. "I count it as a certainty that in paradise, everyone naps." — Tom Hodgkinson
4. "There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it." — Mindy Kaling
5. "Happiness is waking up, looking at the clock and finding that you still have two hours left to sleep." — Charles M. Schulz
6. "Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night." — Dave Barry
7. "Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone." — Anthony Burgess

BEDS & BEDTIME

1. "A bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late." — Ogden Nash
2. "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." — Benjamin Franklin
3. "No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap." — Carrie Snow
4. "If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late." — Henny Youngman
5. "There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled." — Edward Lucas
6. "My bed is a magical place where I suddenly remember everything I forgot to do." — Anonymous
7. "In bed we laugh, in bed we cry, and born in bed, in bed we die." — Isaac de Benserade
8. "A day without a nap is like a cupcake without frosting." — Terri Guillemets
9. "Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night." — William Blake

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— The Bacta Sleep Team