Quotes on sleep
If you wake up Sleepy & Grumpy, you must be Snow White.
Author, Unknown
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
Ovid
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.
Bachelard, Gaston
The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Come sweet slumber, enshroud me in thy purple cloak.
Headroom, Max
It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbour's as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
Howe, Edgar Watson
Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.
Allen, George
The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
Cossman, E. Joseph
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.
Burke, Leo J.
If people were meant to pop out of bed, we'd all sleep in toasters.
Unknown, Author
Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.
Unknown, Author
If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he'd make a fortune.
Niblack, Griff
There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock.
Unknown, Author
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Sleep - those little slices of death, how I loathe them.
Edgar Allen Poe
There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.
Unknown, Author
Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
Lebowitz, Fran
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
Colton, Charles Caleb
It's at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull. I don't know if anyone has ever pointed out that great attraction of insomnia before, but it is so; the night seems to release a little more of our vast backward inheritance of instincts and feelings; as with the dawn, a little honey is allowed to ooze between the lips of the sandwich, a little of the stuff of dreams to drip into the waking mind. I wish I believed, as J. B. Priestley did, that consciousness continues after disembodiment or death, not forever, but for a long while. Three score years and ten is such a stingy ration of time, when there is so much time around. Perhaps that's why some of us are insomniacs; night is so precious that it would be pusillanimous to sleep all through it! A "bad night" is not always a bad thing.
Aldiss, Brian
People who snore always fall asleep first.
Unknown, Author
I am often in bed by 10pm knowing that it is midnight somewhere in the world.
Near, Holly
Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.
Bunyan, John