Sleep Quotes

When the body is in trouble, we must find and eliminate the cause, not medicate the symptom

~ Nina Leavins

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

Good soul easily sleeps well.

~ Toba Beta

The sleeping style of each organism is exquisitelyadapted to the ecology of the animal. It is conceivable that animals who are too stupid to be quiet on their own initiative are, during periods of high risk, immobilized by the implacable arm of sleep.

~ Carl Sagan

Who needs sleep when you have a good book?

~ Elizabeth Ann Patterson

…she was so exhausted and tired, so overwhelmed, that she needed a Red Bull, to calm down and fall asleep.

~ Haidji

As so many commitments demand your timeOr your shut-eye important be,Your attraction to me must in some way lack,Such a pity to spend time on thee.

~ Charlotte M. Liebel

Thanks, Pepe. You've put an extra night into my life. I would have spent it just sleeping like an ox, but I've lived it instead. I'm grateful.

~ Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

...the wind hums low with sweet exultation, sings its lullaby, while you sleep ...

~ John Geddes

...How terrible, those dreams before sleep were—the worse kind, mixing hope with despair...

~ John Geddes

Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into itself until it has recognized I, and therefrom deduced I am, I am now. Here comes next, and is at least negatively reassuring; because here, this morning, is where it has expected to find itself: what’s called at home.

~ Christopher Isherwood

it felt like waking up over and over without falling sleep in between.

~ James S.a. Corey

Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life. Bring God to your ordinary life introduce God into your ordinary life. Sleep, eat, love, pray, meditate, but don’t think that you are making or doing something special—and then you will be special.

~ Osho

What you do in your dreams is never your choice. But it made me happy anyway.

~ Sarah Dessen

I miss you, I miss you at night, I can’t sleep without you anymore, I’m scared. Meet me in heaven.

~ Efdal Korkmaz

Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured everyone did. Maybe people are younger when they are asleep.

~ S.e. Hinton

Maybe people are younger when they sleep.

~ S.e. Hinton

Westward on the high-hilled plainsWhere for me the world began, Still, I think, in newer veinsFrets the changeless blood of man....There, when hueless is the westAnd the darkness hushes wide,Where the lad lies down to restStands the troubled dream beside.There, on thoughts that once were mine,Day looks down the eastern steep,And the youth at morning shineMakes the vow he will not keep.

~ A.e. Housman

And I feel like a real Dad when I read to her at night. She won't sleep without one story, at least.

~ Steven Herrick

Satan puts three knots at the back of the head of any of you if he is asleep. On every knot he reads and exhales the following words, ‘The night is long, so stay asleep.’ When one wakes up and remembers Allah, one knot is undone; and when one performs ablution, the second knot is undone, and when one prays the third knot is undone and one gets up energetic with a good heart in the morning; otherwise one gets up lazy and with a mischievous heart.

~ Abu Huraira

When the world falls asleep, authors weave the stories that are called dreams.. and when authors dare to jot down.. that's called making dreams come true.

~ Vikrmn

If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?

~ Guillermo Cabrera Infante

You need your rest to feel your best!

~ Brandi Russell

There are vampires. They are real, they are of our time, and they are here, close by, stalking us as we sleep...

~ Nicky Raven

There are things we do automatically, our body, acting on its own, avoids inconvenience whenever possible, that is why we sleep on the eve of battle or execution, and why ultimately we die when we can no longer bear the harsh light of existence.

~ José Saramago

Come, sleep and death; you promise nothing, you hold everything.

~ Søren Kierkegaard

She sleeps like a cocoyam. A thing without senses. She sleeps like his mother, unplugged from the world.

~ Taiye Selasi

I'll never get over the factthat the buildings all light up at night,and the night comes every nightand without regret we let it go.We sleep a little and we live.That's what we do.

~ Alex Dimitrov

They live, we sleep, we starve, they eat. You must comply with their deceit, don't trust the wolves to guard the sheep. They'll colonize when you close your eyes into a superpower that will never die.

~ Trevor D. Richardson

Waking up in the same place in which you dozed off has never happened either to you or to anyone else. Ever. Earth does not stop moving when you sleep. Every hour that passes, Earth travels a little more than 800,000 kilometres around the centre of our galaxy. And so do you. That's the equivalent of about twenty trips around the planet. Every hour. No one minds, though, as long as their bed stays still beneath their body.

~ Christophe Galfard

It is very difficult sometimes to keep awake, especially at church, but there is no difficulty at all about sleeping.

~ Oscar Wilde

I wish I had a brush that could paint the whole sky and turn every morning into night. I wish I could always sleep next to you in the never ending night and hold your hand, watching the reflection of all the stars in your eyes, while you smile and watch them in the sky with wonder.

~ Akshay Vasu

A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in. A minute to smile and an hour to weep in. A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double. And that is life. A crust and a corner that makes love precious, With a smile to warm and tears to refresh us, And joy seems sweeter when cares come after, And a moan is the finest of foils for laughter. And that is life.

~ Paul Laurence Dunbar

I remembered my little brother, Allyn, had appeared so innocent and angelic when he slept--similar to Kerrick. It must be a survival tactic. If Allyn hadn't looked so sweet, we would have killed him while he slept. He had been pure evil when he was awake--similar to Kerrick.

~ Maria V. Snyder

By honoring and responding to your natural and essential requirements for sleep, food, water and movement, you will rise out of the realm of survival into the world of fulfillment.

~ Miranda J. Barrett

It took me some time to sleep last night, I lowered the temp of AC that it might help but still it took a while, while coming back from Fajr I saw a street sweeper sleeping on the road near the wall of a big house behind a parked car, it was 29C without any breeze and he was in deep sleep with snoring loud enough to be audible 10 feet away, surely our perception of things which will bestow us with peace is clouded

~ Nauman Khan

We breathe our deepest during sleep. When we are in the state of full rest. We are able to be.

~ J.r. Rim

Last night was dark and full of terror and while we slept, the angels kept their watch of wondering love.

~ Omosohwofa Casey

I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That’s why I’m trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning.

~ Stephen Chbosky

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

~ Anthony Burgess