Sleep Quotes

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

I find that being considerate of others and keeping what I say and what I do in agreement makes for a great night's sleep.

~ Steve Maraboli

You smile and draw me near and whisper, Do as dreamers do.I lean to you and whisper in your ear, I cannot dream tonight my Dear. For it is you.

~ Shaun Hick

No amount of sleep will ever satisfy the tiredness i always feel.

~ Unknown

But space shrinks when you get old, and things lose their wonder, and the wisest thing to do then is to try your best to sleep.

~ Dexter Palmer

I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.

~ Ned Vizzini

That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep.

~ John Green

I don't sleep. I just let my body lie itself into numbness and lie to myself that I can't hear, see, or feel anything.

~ Will Advise

sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless manthe most guilty.

~ Franz Kafka

Guess I am going to take a man-nap. Wake me up when there is food.

~ Vann Chow

I'm not an insomniac. It's just that my mind is in the best position to catch the weight of all hovering possibilities the moment I lie down.

~ Joyce Rachelle

I've had enough of these streets that sweat a cold, yellow slime, of hostile people, of crying myself to sleep every night. I've had enough of thinking, enough of remembering.

~ Jean Rhys

A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.

~ Anthony Trollope

when I finally begin to driftinto sleepyour memory is the...firstand the moonlightthe last, to kiss my face.

~ Sanober Khan

It doesn't matter, the important thing is to fall asleep caressing the charm of an image. Because the last thing you think of before falling asleep must always be the most beautiful.

~ Filippo Bologna

Tell me a story. Be my storyteller.

~ Arzum Uzun

You can do without sleep or without food, but not without both and sleep wasn't an option.

~ Ilona Andrews

What silence rules the ghostly hoursThat guard the close of human sleep!(“The Testimony of the Suns”)

~ George Sterling

Silence: the motor drive of nothingness underneath all rhythm - threatened to last forever, a spell of sleep cast over the entire kingdom of listeners.

~ Richard Powers

Being busy is a distraction and I am sure that doing nothing, resting and sleeping are all good cures for modern life. I am not suggesting we all do nothing but sleep, however, sometimes stopping long enough to 'be' can be very powerful.

~ Joanna Runciman

I would like to sing someone to sleep,to sit beside someone and be there.I would like to rock you and sing softlyand go with you to and from sleep.I would like to be the one in the housewho knew: The night was cold.And I would like to listen in and listen outinto you, into the world, into the woods.The clocks shout to one another striking,and one sees to the bottom of time.And down below one last, strange man walks byand rouses a strange dog.And after that comes silence.I have laid my eyes upon you wide;and they hold you gently and let you gowhen something stirs in the dark.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

I won't sleepif that's what it takesto not wake upas myself

~ Casey Renee Kiser

Sleep is where we touch what is better left unexamined. There, the whole of life is bundled up, dwindled. There the carefully hoarded and enjoyed personality, our only treasure and at the same time our only defense must die into the ultimate truth of things, the black lightning that splits and destroys all, the positive, unquestionable nothingness.

~ William Golding

I am myself when I get up, I am myself throughout the day and I am myself when I go back to sleep, you probably might have met someone else when I was asleep and claimed it to be changed me.

~ Pushpa Rana

Why, when we regain consciousness, is it not an identity other than the one we had previously that is embodied in us? It is not clear what dictates the choice nor why, among the millions of human beings we might be, it is the being we were the day before that we unerringly grasp.

~ Marcel Proust

They slept profoundly, desperately, greedily, as though for the last time, as though they had been condemned to stay awake forever and had to drink in all the sleep in the world during these last hours.

~ Hermann Hesse

savorwith methe lushnessof a lingering sleep...and last night’sdream.

~ Sanober Khan

Waking up next to you is like when other people get to sleep in and keep dreaming.

~ Stacey T. Hunt

Sleep without the fragrance of her hair next to him was impossible.

~ Toni Morrison

Finally, both of them fell asleep together with their limbs entwined in the eternal position of a lover's embrace.

~ Alan Kinross

My Love wakes in a puddle of sunlight.Her hands asleep beside her.Her hair draped on the lawnlike a mantle of cloth.I give her my troth, for our love is wholeI sing her beauty in my soul

~ Roman Payne

Maintaining one’s health in today’s toxic rich environment requires proper rest, hydration, an abundant intake of nutrients, and regular internal cleansing practices

~ Gary Hopkins

When travelling, concentrate on the path! Don’t sleep! Don’t read! Just live the journey in full by observing the path instead of wandering in your own world!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you greet him rather as a welcome friend than a gruesome foe.

~ Apsley Cherry-Garrard

If one believed in angels one would feel that they must love us best when we are asleep and cannot hurt each other, and what a mercy it is that once in every twenty-four hours we are too utterly weary to go on being unkind.

~ Elizabeth Von Arnim

The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven.

~ Victor Hugo

Like honey is the sleep of the just.

~ Anne Carson

Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.

~ Thomas Dekker

Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.

~ Hippocrates

The Self Care Formula is simple-NITO(5R). Nutrients In & Toxins Out in the 5 Realms (Mental, Emotional, Physical, Environmental, Spiritual).

~ Nina Leavins