Sleep Quotes And Sayings

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“Despite fifty years of research all we can conclude about the function of sleep is that it overcomes sleepiness, and that the only reliable finding from sleep deprivation experiments is that sleep loss makes us sleepy.”
– James Horne

“I’m not good at talking. Can’t I just nod my way through a conversation? It’s better than nodding off.”
– Jarod Kintz

“Sleeping in a tinfoil suit keeps me warmer and helps prepare me for my voyage to the moon. Would you care for some licorice? ?”
– Jarod Kintz

“I love having a ceiling fan, although sometimes I wish he wouldn’t cheer so loud when I’m trying to sleep.”
– Jarod Kintz, It Occurred to Me

“I think it would be neat to meet a man who slept with one eye open, especially if that man was a Cyclops.”
– Jarod Kintz, It Occurred to Me

“Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.”
– Jessamyn West

“Sleep is God. Go worship.”
– Jim Butcher, Death Masks

“To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.”
– Joan Klempner

“Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.”
– John Bunyan

“Sleep is pain‘s easiest salve, and doth fulfill all the offices of death, except to kill”
– John Donne

“Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose.”
– John Fletcher

“What hath night to do with sleep?”
– John Milton

“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

“When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn’t believe what a racket they make in my room.”
– Karl Kraus

“I did find out about the koalas and how eucalyptus makes them high and why they sleep all day. They’re little druggies.”
– Kristen Anne Bell

“Life is too short to sleep on low thread-count sheets.”
– Leah Stussy

“People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.”
– Leo J. Burke

“The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.”
– Leonard Cohen

“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep: And yet a third of Life is passed in sleep.”
– Lord Byron

“Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night… without the satisfaction.”
– Lynn Johnston

“Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“The great modification which the act of awakening effects in us is not so much that of ushering us into the clear life of consciousness, as that of making us lose all memory of the slightly more diffused light in which our mind had been resting, as in the opaline depths of the sea. The tide of thought, half veiled from our perception, on which we were still drifting a moment ago, kept us in a state of motion perfectly sufficient to enable us to refer to it by the name of wakefulness. But then our actual awakenings produce an interruption of memory. A little later we describe these states as sleep because we no longer remember them.”
– Marcel Proust

“A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.”
– Marcel Proust

“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
– Margaret Atwood

“There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.”
– Marie de Rabutin-Chantal

“I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.”
– Mary Stewart

“Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).”
– Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Sleep is not a waste of time. During sleep, a variety of biological processes take place that restore our bodies and minds.”
– Nancy Foldvary-Schaefer

“Sleep ’til you’re hungry, eat ’til you’re sleepy.”
– Niall Horan

“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.”
– Ogden Nash

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