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100 Quotes About Sleep – Best Sleep Quotes For Better Sleep

 

Looking for the best quotes about sleep? Here are the 100 BEST sleep quotes to help you sleep better tonight.

 

 

Let’s have a conversation today about quotes about sleep.

Quotes truly have the power to change your life.

They somehow manage to so perfectly encapsulate the feelings you are having about a particular issue.

They are raw, beautiful and tap into a part of your soul that feels both understood and reflective.

 

If you are interested in knowing the 100 very best quotes about sleep, you have come to exactly the right place.

 

 

quotes about sleep

 

 

So, without further ado, here are the TOP 100 VERY BEST QUOTES about SLEEP:

 

 

Quotes About Sleep – Best Sleep Quotes For Better Sleep

 

1 – Sleep is the best meditation. Dalai Lama

 

2 – A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything. Irish Proverb

 

3 – When I wake up, I am reborn. Mahatma Gandhi

 

4 – For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through. Steve Jobs

 

5 – Never waste any time you can spend sleeping. Frank H. Knight

 

6 – The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep. W. C. Fields

 

7 – Prioritising a good sleep is good self-love.

 

8 – Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. Thomas Dekker

 

9 – The main facts in human life are five: birth, good, sleep, love and death. E.M. Forster

 

10 – Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. William Blake

 

 

Quotes About Sleep - Best Sleep Quotes For Better Sleep

 

 

 

Quotes About Sleep – Best Sleep Quotes For Better Sleep

 

 

11 – Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten. — H. Rider Haggard

 

 

12 – Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. Francis Bacon

 

13 – There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. Homer

 

14 – A well-spent day brings happy sleep. — Leonardo da Vinci

 

 

15 – Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It’s a palliative. The remedy is death. Nicolas Chamfort

 

Quotes About Sleep - Best Sleep Quotes For Better Sleep

 

 

16 – This is the end of the day but soon there will be a new day. Bernard Williams

 

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

 

18 – When nothing goes right, go to sleep.

 

19 – When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap. — Tom Hodgkinson

 

 

20 – Quiet the mind and the soul will speak. Buddha

 

 

Quotes About Sleep - Best Sleep Quotes For Better Sleep

 

 

Quotes About Sleep – Best Sleep Quotes For Better Sleep

 

 

21 – Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I’m reborn. — Mahatma Gandhi

 

 

22 – Based on the science, you can make somewhat clear statements: the number of people who can survive on six hours of sleep without impairment is zero. Matthew Walker

 

23 – The nicest thing for me is sleep. Then at least I can dream. Marilyn Monroe

 

24 – Night can seem longer than the day when you dream big dreams. Day time lasts longer for people who make their dreams come true.

 

25 – Happiness is waking up, looking at the clock and finding that you still have two hours left to sleep. — Charles M. Schulz

 

Quotes About Sleep - Best Sleep Quotes For Better Sleep

 

 

26 – Don’t sleep too much. If you sleep three hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in. Aristotle Onassis

 

27 – One man’s bad day is another man’s good night. Mokokoma Mokhonoana

 

28 – No civilized person goes to bed the same day he gets up. — Richard Harding Davis

 

 

29 – Never go to sleep feeling discouraged or dissatisfied. Never sleep in the consciousness of failure. Neville Goddard

 

 

30 – Your future depends on your dreams, so go to sleep. — Mesut Barazany

 

 

Quotes About Sleep - Best Sleep Quotes For Better Sleep

 

 

 

Quotes About Sleep – Best Sleep Quotes For Better Sleep

 

 

31 – Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. Walt Whitman

 

32 – A day without a nap is like a cupcake without frosting. — Terri Guillemets

 

 

33 – Sleep – the most beautiful experience in life – except drink. W.C. Fields

 

34 – Man has to awaken to wonder – and so perhaps do people. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again. Ludwig Wittgenstein

 

35 – There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled. — Edward Lucas

 

Quotes About Sleep - Best Sleep Quotes For Better Sleep

 

 

36 – Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep. — Mahatma Gandhi

 

 

37 – Before you fall asleep every day, say something positive to yourself. Enid Bagnold

 

38 – No day is so bad it can’t be fixed with a nap. — Carrie Snow

 

 

39 – True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. — William Penn

 

 

40 – Life always offers you a second chance. It’s called tomorrow. Dylan Thomas

 

Quotes About Sleep - Best Sleep Quotes For Better Sleep

Quotes About Sleep – Best Sleep Quotes For Better Sleep

 

 

41 – The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep. — E. Joseph Cossman

 

 

42 – 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

 

 

43 – Sleep is like the unicorn – it is rumored to exist but I double I will see any. Dr. Seuss

 

44 – Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world. — Heraclitus

 

 

45 – My body has decreed that I shall nap and nothing will stand in my way. Kathryn Ormsbee

 

 

Quotes About Sleep - Best Sleep Quotes For Better Sleep

 

 

 

46 – Night is a world lit by itself. Antonio Porchia

 

47 – Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. -— Gillian Flynn

 

 

48 – Fatigue is the best pillow. — Benjamin Franklin

 

 

49 – People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.

 

50 – No one looks back on their life and remembers the nights they had plenty of sleep.

 

Quotes About Sleep - Best Sleep Quotes For Better Sleep

 

 

 

Quotes About Sleep – Best Sleep Quotes For Better Sleep

 

51 – Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty. — Franz Kafka

 

 

52 – Anyone can escape into sleep. We are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher’s the poet’s equal there. — Emile M. Cioran

 

 

53 – Happiness consists of getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more. — Robert A. Heinlein

 

 

54 – 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

 

 

55 – Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
~ Clifton Fadiman

 

Quotes About Sleep - Best Sleep Quotes For Better Sleep

 

 

56 – urn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry. ~ B. C. Forbes

 

 

57 – If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. — Dale Carnegie

 

 

58 – Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world. — Heraclitus

 

 

59 – In the past, when I’d recorded during a break in a tour, it was so easy to sing, because I felt strong. Also, like so many new mothers, I wasn’t getting a lot of sleep, and sleeping is such a huge part of being able to sing.
~ Amy Grant

 

 

60 – It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped. — Kim Stanley Robinson

 

 

Quotes About Sleep - Best Sleep Quotes For Better Sleep

 

 

 

Quotes About Sleep – Best Sleep Quotes For Better Sleep

 

 

61 – Sleep… Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death.
~ Author unknown

 

 

62 – Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.— David Almond

 

 

63 – Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even. Miguel de Cervantes

 

 

64 – The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. ~ Robert Frost

 

 

65 – Without enough sleep, we all become tall two-year-olds. — JoJo Jensen

 

 

66 – Maybe you don’t like your job, maybe you didn’t get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there’s no escape, there’s no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.~ Ani DiFranco

 

 

67 – Even where sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.
~ Homer

 

 

68 – I love sleep. My life has a tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know? — Ernest Hemingway

 

 

69 – There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
~ Edward Lucas

 

 

70 – 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

 

 

Quotes About Sleep - Best Sleep Quotes For Better Sleep

 

 

 

Quotes About Sleep – Best Sleep Quotes For Better Sleep

 

 

71 – Time, motion and wine cause sleep. ~ Ovid

 

 

72 – I count it as a certainty that in paradise, everyone naps.
~ Tom Hodgkinson

 

 

73 – I don’t even like to sleep – I feel as if there’s too much to do.
~ James Franco

 

 

74 – If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he’d make a fortune. — Griff Niblack

 

 

75 – For disappearing acts, it’s hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.
~ Doug Larson

 

 

76 – Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.
~ George Allen, Sr.

 

 

77 – 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

 

 

78 – “Many things — such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly — are done worst when we try hardest to do them. — C. S. Lewis

 

 

79 – 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

 

 

80 – You can go to bed without fear; you will lie down and sleep soundly.— Proverbs 3:24

 

Quotes About Sleep - Best Sleep Quotes For Better Sleep

 

 

Quotes About Sleep – Best Sleep Quotes For Better Sleep

 

81 – Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world. Napoleon Bonaparte

 

82 – A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book. — Irish Proverb

 

 

83 – Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care
The death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath
Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course,
Chief nourisher in life’s feast.
~ William Shakespeare, Macbeth

 

 

84 – The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more. ~ Wilson Mizener

 

 

85 – Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 

 

 

86 – In dreams we enter a world that’s entirely our own. Let them swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud. — J.K. Rowling

 

 

87 – There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it. Mindy Kaling

 

88 – Every closed eye is not sleeping and every open eye is not seeing.

 

89 – Man is a genius when he is dreaming. — Akira Kurosawa

 

 

90 – You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. Dr. Seuss

 

Quotes About Sleep - Best Sleep Quotes For Better Sleep

 

 

Quotes About Sleep – Best Sleep Quotes For Better Sleep

 

 

91 – Before going to sleep every night, forgive everyone, and sleep with a clean heart.

 

92 – And if tonight my soul may find her peace
in sleep, and sink in good oblivion,
and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower
then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.
~ D.H. Lawrence

 

 

93 – Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion. — Audrey Niffenegger

 

 

94 – Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine. Thomas Aquinas

 

95 – You’re my favorite reason to lose sleep.

 

 

Quotes About Sleep - Best Sleep Quotes For Better Sleep

 

 

96 – I’m going to sleep well tonight knowing that I made the right decision. George Ryan

 

97 – In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
~ Colette

 

 

98 – Come, Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace,
The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe,
The poor man’s wealth, the prisoner’s release,
Th’indifferent judge between the high and low
~ Astrophel and Stella

 

 

99 – One cannot think well, love well, sleep well,if one has not dined well. Virginia Woolf

 

100 – I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know? Ernest Hemingway

 

 


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