Sleep Quotes

What hath night to do with sleep?

~ John Milton

The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.

~ Poppy Z. Brite

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

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

~ Audrey Niffenegger

Sleep is God. Go worship.

~ Jim Butcher

For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the last thing I want to do.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Are you still mad at me?Yes.I'll go back to sleep, then.Good.

~ E.l. James

I think insomnia is a sign that a person is interesting.

~ Avery Sawyer

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

~ Homer

Some people wake up drowsy. Some people wake up energized. I wake up dead.

~ John Marsden

sleep is such a luxury, which i cant afford.

~ Robin Sikarwar

Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to settle, to join the collective nod. The insomniac brain is a sort of conspiracy theorist as well, believing too much in its own paranoiac importance--as though if it were to blink, then doze, the world might be overrun by some encroaching calamity, which its obsessive musings are somehow fending off.

~ Jonathan Lethem

Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.

~ Umberto Eco

Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with them.

~ Christopher Pike

Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.

~ John Steinbeck

In the old days, before I was married, or knew a lot of women, I would just pull down all the shades and go to bed for three or four days. I'd get up to shit. I'd eat a can of beans, go back to bed, just stay there for three or four days. Then I'd put on my clothes and I'd walk outside, and the sunlight was brilliant, and the sounds were great. I felt powerful, like a recharged battery. But you know the first bring-down? The first human face I saw on the sidewalk, I lost half my charge right there.

~ Charles Bukowski

Good night - may you fall asleep in the arms of a dream, so beautiful, you'll cry when you awake.

~ Michael Faudet

So I've started wearing sweatpants to bed because I really don't need Santa seeing me in my underwear.

~ Jeff Kinney

Put my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.

~ Stephen Chbosky

It was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who had blocked the way.

~ Markus Zusak

There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand across her forehead, but there was also no one more ferocious when anyone disturbed the sensuality of her thinking she was still asleep when she no longer was.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

You're always in a rush, or else you're too exhausted to have a proper conversation. Soon enough, the long hours, the traveling, the broken sleep have all crept into your being and become part of you, so everyone can see it, in your posture, your gaze, the way you move and talk.

~ Kazuo Ishiguro

There is no such thing as a good call at 7 AM. It's been my experience that all calls between the hours of 11 PM and 9 AM are disaster calls.

~ Janet Evanovich

Also, I could finally sleep. And this was the real gift, because when you cannot sleep, you cannot get yourself out of the ditch--there's not a chance.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep is the consummate protection against the unseemliness that is the invariable consequence of being awake. What you don't know won't hurt you. Sleep is death without the responsibility.

~ Fran Lebowitz

One of the Georges - I forget which - once said that a certain number of hours' sleep each night - I cannot recall at the moment how many - made a man something which for the time being has slipped my memory.

~ P.g. Wodehouse

She used to say she could taste sleep and that it was as delicious as a BLT on fresh French bread.

~ Rebecca Wells

The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.

~ W.c. Fields

Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched....

~ Janet Fitch

All the kids from daycare are in dreamland.The froggie has made his last leap.Hell no you can't go to the bathroom.You know where you can go?The f**k to sleep.

~ Adam Mansbach

Sleep did not honor me with it’s presence.

~ Alysha Speer

When you wake up with a song stuck in your head, it means an angel sang you to sleep.

~ Denise Baer

I am a total zombie just after I wake up. It takes me half an hour even to get my eyes open. Ask anyone who knows me. I can't see, I can't talk properly, I can't do anything without help. The only think I can do properly is think. And I know how to exploit my condition. I've had years of practice.

~ Diana Wynne Jones

Commander! Sir! Wake up!Jack surfaced from sleep, wondering who the commander was and wishing he'd respond so he could go back to sleep - until he remembered that he was the commander.

~ Cinda Williams Chima

There are many ways a self-respecting (not to mention sane) teenage girl might react to having a teenage boy suddenly in her bedroom in the middle of the night.Hit.Panic.Flail.Freeze.

~ Ally Carter

Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.

~ Paul Newman

The habit is now confirmed in me of spending the greater part of the day in sleep, while by night I wander far and wide through the city under the sedative influence of a tincture which has become necessary to my life

~ M.p. Shiel

Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

~ Virginia Woolf

I sleep better knowing that a naked cork-eater is not sneaking around at night, stealing my underwear.

~ Maureen Johnson