Quotes About Sleep

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
– William Shakespeare

“A sleepless night casts a shadow over many days to come, leaving us irritable for a long time.”
– Per Petterson

“Sleeping without safety is like sleeping while awake.”
– Jesmyn Ward

“That’s the thing about sleep. Somehow, it smooths things over—arguments, worries, everything. You might be so scared or upset about something that you think you won’t be able to sleep, but eventually, it happens. And when you wake up in the morning, for a little while, it feels like there was a storm in the night.”
– Alex North

“There are days when you’ve seen so much of the world’s filth that only a good sleep can restore your will to live.”
– Steven Saylor

“In the army, you learn to sleep standing up, or even while marching, if necessary.”
– Steven Saylor

“Sleep largely depends on how much faith a person has in their ability to fall asleep.”
– Alex Bartle

“Like breathing, sleep is one of life’s essentials—a shifting flow that refreshes and heals. As a biological necessity, it deserves our respect.”
– Bernice Tuffery

“Sleep isn’t the only way to rest. Neurologists encourage ‘airing out the brain’ and recommend laughter as the best remedy for nervous people—just as important as good sleep.”
– Vsevolod Meyerhold

“The night is dark and long, depriving us of our reason.”
– Jón Kalman Stefánsson

“When we sleep, we are unaware of our surroundings, freed from the shackles of time. We can fly, die, or do things our conscience would forbid while awake.”
– Jón Kalman Stefánsson

“Perhaps every time we open our eyes, we are reborn, but by the same token, something dies when we close them.”
– Jón Kalman Stefánsson

“When we sleep, we somewhat cease to exist. Pretending to sleep, however, is like believing that nothing is happening, hoping that things will resolve themselves in the meantime.”
– Fabio Geda

“What is man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more.”
– William Shakespeare

“Get enough sleep. Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher both boasted of sleeping only four hours a night—and both became senile.”
– Linn Skaber

“There’s truth to the saying that sleep is the cousin of death. How easily we drift from wakefulness into dreams! How casually we bid farewell to light and consciousness!”
– Michel de Montaigne

“Why is it that even the noblest of people are no better than the wicked during one half of their lives? While asleep, we are all equal.”
– Aristotle

“A nap during the day is like the sin of gluttony: the more satisfying it is, the more we crave it, and yet it leaves us both sated and hungry, unhappy either way.”
– Umberto Eco

“Few realize that, alongside diet and exercise, sleep is one of the cornerstones of well-being. We know unhealthy eating and lack of exercise affect our physical and mental health, yet we often fail to see the same connection with sleep.”
– Anna Black

“Sleep… the impartial friend, humanity’s best and most reliable caretaker since the dawn of time.”
– Stephen King

“You never realize how important sleep is until you start suffering from its lack. Suddenly, all floors tilt, and sharp edges become soft and round.”
– Stephen King

“There are certain things we all strive for—not the kind of stuff that makes history books, but the essentials: a roof to keep out the rain, a warm meal, decent intimacy, healthy digestion. Nothing in the world compares to a good night’s sleep.”
– Stephen King

“Humans can sleep through the worst agony, but those who inflict suffering on others will never find rest.”
– Fullmetal Alchemist (film)

“The ability to sleep deeply and healthily is a privilege… granted to those who don’t think too fast.”
– Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

“You can’t hate someone you’ve watched sleeping.”
– Elias Canetti

“Even a snake-bitten man can fall asleep, but a hungry man cannot.”
– Khaled Hosseini

“Sleep. It’s the easiest thing. Just… close your eyes. Yet for so many, sleep slips through their fingers. They want it but don’t know how to get it. But if we face our demons, our fears, and seek help from each other, the night doesn’t seem so frightening anymore—we’re no longer alone in the dark.”
– Grey’s Anatomy (TV series)

“If a baby cries, a mother wakes from her deepest sleep. Even if our senses disconnect from the world during sleep, the spirit remains vigilant.”
– Eddy de Wind

“Life is bearable only thanks to sleep and forgetting. We are too weak to endure twenty-four hours of sobriety.”
– Emil M. Cioran

“Only the innocent know the peace of undisturbed sleep. Confess your sins, and you will sleep like a newborn child.”
– George R. R. Martin

“Ignorance is the worst doctor; rest and sleep are the best nurses.”
– Yann Martel

“During deep sleep, the soul lives unto itself, like a helmsman in a windless calm, like a mirror at night, or like a harp untouched by hands, waiting for new inspiration.”
– Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“There’s a kind of sleep that enchains the body but captures the soul only halfway.”
– Charles Dickens

“Life is a cycle consisting of two phases: the gong strike from dawn to evening, and from evening to morning. At the morning gong, the senses awaken and bind the soul—paradise is over.”
– Eddy de Wind

“When fatigue and comfort beckon sleep, even the most terrifying nightmare dims and fades into softly buzzing sorrow.”
– Eddy de Wind

“A nap during the day is like a Zamboni smoothing out a skating rink: it erases the scratches, dents, and pits that form in our brains each day.”
– Daniel H. Pink

“The most beautiful thing for me is sleep, but I can also dream while awake.”
– Marilyn Monroe

“Sleep isn’t like eating, but it’s always a close second.”
– Garfield and Friends (TV show)

“The only thing sleep leads to is dreaming.”
– Tupac Amaru Shakur

“Life is one grand adventure. Why waste it on sleep?”
– Die Another Day (James Bond film)

“The average person’s sleep need: just five more minutes.”
– Wilson Mizner

“Sleep is nature’s physician.”
– Stephen King

“Falling asleep while philosophizing is always risky. The brain shifts into infinite mode, racing full steam ahead into a direction we don’t exist in.”
– Kal Pintér Mihály

“When we lie down to sleep, the world tilts a quarter turn, falling ‘ninety dark degrees.’ By night, thoughts neatly stacked during the day rise like tree trunks in a dense forest. Such is the impenetrable nature of dream research and the literature it inspires. Forever shrouded in twilight, with paths almost impossible to find, and those blazed by others soon overgrown. This mysterious forest draws us in with irresistible force. But when we return and see the open sky again, we breathe a sigh of relief that the thicket didn’t consume us.”
– Douwe Draaisma

“Women sleep better without a man beside them. Practice shows that for men, it’s exactly the opposite.”
– Monika Peetz

“Don’t let others influence you or convince you it’s wrong to stay in bed and laze around if that’s what you feel like today. If there’s nothing else to do, why not get up whenever you want? Waking up early isn’t a ‘virtuous act.’”
– Richard Templar

“If I live to seventy-five, I will have slept over twenty-five years. No other activity keeps me in one place that long. While I sleep, I harm no one and cause no trouble—it’s even environmentally friendly. If I were paid for how well I do it, I’d be very rich by now.”
– Robert Fulghum

“The world would be better if we slept more—or at least spent more time in bed. There are people I don’t like much when they’re awake, but they don’t bother me at all when they’re asleep, drooling on their pillows.”
– Robert Fulghum

“Never sleep at someone else’s place. Sleep is death. Every morning is resurrection—the resurrection of the flesh.”
– Hallgrímur Helgason