Quotations About Sleep

100+ quotes that will KNOCK YOU OUT

A comprehensive collection of the most soporific quotes about sleep, rest, dreams, and the nocturnal hours. Click any category to reveal all quotes within.

The Necessity of Sleep
9 quotes
Why we must surrender to slumber

"Sleep is the best meditation."

— Dalai Lama

"A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book."

— Irish Proverb

"Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together."

— Thomas Dekker

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Insomnia & Sleeplessness
10 quotes
The torment of the wakeful mind

"The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to."

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Sleep is such a luxury, which I can't afford."

— Robin Sikarwar

"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"

— Ernest Hemingway

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Dreams & The Unconscious Mind
10 quotes
Where the soul speaks in riddles

"Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you."

— Marsha Norman

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters."

— Henry David Thoreau

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Sleep as Escape
10 quotes
The sweet refuge of unconsciousness

"I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use."

— Fran Lebowitz

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

— Audrey Niffenegger

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

— Homer

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Sleep Deprivation & Exhaustion
10 quotes
The wages of wakefulness

"A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow."

— Charlotte Brontë

"Sleep deprivation is the most common brain impairment."

— William Dement

"Fatigue is the best pillow."

— Benjamin Franklin

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Morning & Waking
10 quotes
The reluctant return to consciousness

"The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child."

— Joe Houldsworth

"Every morning I wake up and thank God."

— Aaron Neville

"Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have."

— Lemony Snicket

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Night & Darkness
10 quotes
When the world reveals its other face

"Night is a world lit by itself."

— Antonio Porchia

"The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand."

— Frederic Lawrence Knowles

"There is no night without a dawning, no winter without a spring."

— Anonymous

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Rest & Restoration
10 quotes
The art of doing nothing, beautifully

"Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work."

— Ralph Marston

"Sleep is the best meditation."

— Dalai Lama

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day is by no means a waste of time."

— John Lubbock

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Sleep & Productivity
10 quotes
The paradox of doing more by sleeping

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

— W.C. Fields

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."

— Dr. Seuss

"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."

— John Steinbeck

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Beds & Bedtime
10 quotes
Odes to the most important furniture

"A bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret."

— Ogden Nash

"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."

— Benjamin Franklin

"No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap."

— Carrie Snow

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