Sleep Quotes

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

~ Honoré De Balzac

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'

~ Steven Wright

I remember there were days when - and this is kind of gross - I would sleep in my uniform to save time in the morning and then get up and go to school... it didn't matter because I didn't have to impress anyone, and I didn't have to look cute in class.

~ Stacey Farber

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.

~ Gaston Bachelard

I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life.

~ Byron Katie

The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I'm tired. I have been tired for decades. I am tired in the morning and I am tired while becalmed in the slough of the afternoon, and I am tired in the evening, except right when I try to go to sleep.

~ Susan Orlean

When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you have two children!

~ Julie Mehretu

I have a lot of energy after 2 A.M. I like to sleep in the morning. I have some problems at the start of the day.

~ Valentino Rossi

From morning when I wake up until I go to sleep, I am working. I go to bed and I want to switch off, but the brain doesn't switch off.

~ Frank Lowy

Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.

~ Rose Kennedy

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

~ Benjamin Franklin

I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal.

~ Patti Smith

It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.

~ Carine Roitfeld

I'm up all night, and then next thing you know, it's the morning, and I'll sleep, like, three hours. I'm a night owl. I'm usually in the studio at night working, and then I get home, I'm on my phone looking at Instagram pictures and buying stuff.

~ Christina Milian

The attorney general called and asked me if I was willing to be interviewed for FBI director. And the truth is I told him I didn't think so, that I thought it was too much for my family. But that I would sleep on it and call him back in the morning. And so I went to bed that night convinced I was going to call him back and say no.

~ James Comey

I'm big about washing my face before I go to bed, washing it when I wake up in the morning, getting good sleep and drinking a lot of water. Those are just easy things that you can do for your skin.

~ Kendall Jenner

If yesterday was a good day's work, chances are you'll stay on a roll. And if you can stay on a roll, everything else will probably take care of itself - including not working from the moment you get up in the morning until you nod off to sleep.

~ Jason Fried

My father was a Baptist preacher, and he used to read the King James Bible to me every single morning. He made me memorize it and repeat verses at night before I went to sleep.

~ Jay Parini

I can't sleep without the TV on, so we leave it on during the night, and that's what wakes me up - Joe Scarborough and 'Morning Joe' at 7:30 or 8.

~ Chrissy Teigen

A large amount of constant activity will get things going. For example, training in the morning will have everything, all the juices flowing by the time you actually get to work. So, when you're at work, you've been already up for an hour or so or two hours, and you're raring to go where everyone else is still wiping sleep out of their eyes.

~ Henry Cavill

Holiday? Is like, what? I'm a hyperactive girl, so it may be boring for me to be on the beach doing nothing. I just need to find a place for three weeks and work but sleep in the morning, maybe write a little bit, have a glass of red wine. That's my perfect holiday.

~ Melanie Laurent

Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian.

~ Simon Van Booy

An adult human can last 40 days without food, a week without any sleep, three days without water, but only five minutes without air. Yet nothing is more taken for granted than the air we breathe. However, not just any air will do - it must be exquisitely designed to meet our needs. Too little oxygen in the atmosphere will kill us, as will too much.

~ Hugh Ross

My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.

~ Emeril Lagasse

I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream.

~ Henry Rollins

I sleep completely naked to make me believe you are here, but when I wake up it is not the same thing. Most of all, don't deceive me with other women any more.

~ Camille Claudel

I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.

~ Joel Rosenberg

When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.

~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

~ Thomas Aquinas

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

~ St. Jerome

We want to do a lot of stuff we're not in great shape. We didn't get a good night's sleep. We're a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

~ Jerry Seinfeld

Sometimes I'm so tired, I look down at what I'm wearing, and if it's comfortable enough to sleep in, I don't even make it into my pajamas. I'm looking down, and I'm like, 'T-shirt and stretchy pants? Yup, that's fine. It's pajama-y, good night.'

~ Rebecca Romijn

I'd said to my sweetheart a couple of days before that the SAG and Spirit Award nomination was amazing and I had no attachment to the Academy Award. I knew I was an underdog so I just decided to sleep through the announcement.

~ John Hawkes

I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

~ Leif Garrett

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

~ Aeschylus

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just that his justice cannot sleep forever.

~ Thomas Jefferson

We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain, and is occasionally impressed upon it as a vivid and illuminative dream.

~ Annie Besant

The first pet I remember was a cat called Baby. She would sleep with me, and I could call her from anywhere, and she would come running.

~ Ashton Eaton

I was raised in a strict Southern household in Lexington, South Carolina, and I remember sneaking off to watch 'Pet Cemetery' as a kid. After seeing those animals reincarnate, I screamed and couldn't sleep for weeks, but watched it again and again.

~ Jessica Stroup