Sleep Quotes

Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.

~ W. C. Fields

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

~ Amelia Barr

Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.

~ Ben Stein

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

~ James Thurber

I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

~ Harold Kushner

Getting as much sleep as possible and following a healthy diet will stop you from feeling run-down if, like me, you're super-stressed.

~ Elizabeth Hurley

The myriad of serious health risks resulting from poor diet include high cholesterol, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, and even sleep apnea.

~ Jane Velez-Mitchell

I had one of my best years in 1991 I was 31. I made a renewed effort to work harder. I got better at my diet. I paid attention to how much sleep I got. I was always someone of routine. I became more strict.

~ Cal Ripken

Much in the way Olympic athletes optimize their game by paying an enormous - borderline maniacal - amount of attention to things like diet, exercise, sleep, and of course the essential R&R, we all would do well to pay more attention to those key aspects of our lives that comprise our overall health equation.

~ David Agus

Best and I worked in the sub-basement of the old medical building day and night. Time, meals, sleep - all were of secondary consideration. We had to get insulin into a form that was refined enough for continued clinical use.

~ Frederick Banting

Zombies let us explore notions of the apocalypse - no water, food, medical care, the government imploding - while letting us sleep at night.

~ Max Brooks

Some struggle with medical issues - like insomnia - that make sleep hard. But for many of us, the quantity and quality of sleep come down to a matter of choice. Still, only a few enterprising economists have looked closely at this, and generally, those have assumed that we choose our hours of sleep optimally.

~ Sendhil Mullainathan

I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much.

~ Penelope Cruz

The body needs its rest, and sleep is extremely important in any health regimen. There should be three main things: eating, exercise and sleep. All three together in the right balance make for a truly healthy lifestyle.

~ Rohit Shetty

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

~ William Penn

In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable.

~ Knute Nelson

The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.

~ Francesca Annis

At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.

~ Mehmet Oz

For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.

~ Jean Paul

I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.

~ Harold Wilson

I'm generally so disoriented during the week about what I'm doing and where I am - I travel a lot - that when I'm home on a Sunday, I typically try to sleep in as much as I can.

~ Mike Birbiglia

I don't sleep very well when I travel. And as a result, I tend to be awake in cities when everyone else is asleep.

~ Moby

No veteran or active duty service member should endure a long hospital stay alone. Yet sadly, due to the high cost of travel, all too often our military families are separated while America's heroes receive care. Sometimes families sleep in hospital parking lots, unable to afford long stays in a hotel.

~ John Delaney

I never get enough sleep, even when I travel. I wake up in the middle of the night, either with the help of my kids or because my mind is going. I wish I got eight hours a night, but it is more like an interrupted six or seven. The secret is to go to sleep well before midnight.

~ Summer Sanders

We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.

~ Rodney Dangerfield

Trust your instincts: they tend to see you right. By listening to them, at least you can sleep at night.

~ Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.

~ Mark Wahlberg

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

~ William Wycherley

From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

~ Thomas Moore

I like to embrace natural beauty. I try to get at least 8 hours of sleep, drinking a lot of water and exercising.

~ Tia Mowry

Sleep is the real beauty secret, but I don't get enough of that.

~ Chelsea Leyland

I think my biggest tip - and I consider it a part of my beauty routine - is getting my sleep, without a doubt. I do a true eight hours.

~ Tracee Ellis Ross

It's amazing what sleep does for your looks.

~ Emily Procter

It's funny how sometimes how the public some people think I was born like this. That I maybe I sleep and I do big muscle, but its a lot of work to look like this and to be in this kind of condition.

~ Lou Ferrigno

But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.

~ Charlie Sheen

My mom would always read a book to me at night from when I was three. Now, I can't go to sleep without reading a book. At the same time, once I read, it's difficult for me to go to sleep, as I have an overactive imagination and I start thinking.

~ Sonam Kapoor

I have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should be separate from the place where you write. The domestic rituals and details somehow kill the imagination. They kill the demon in me.

~ Orhan Pamuk

They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.

~ Conor Oberst

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

~ Kevin Spacey

I wish I could wear 10 dresses to my wedding. It's so sad that you put it in storage and then never see it again. I am going to sleep in mine after I wear it.

~ Eva Longoria