Sleep Quotes And Sayings

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“There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.”
– Unknown

“Life dreams itself, contents to keep happy immortality, in sleep.”
– Unknown

“Nothing cures insomnia like the realization that it’s time to get up.”
– Unknown

“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.”
– Unknown

“One truly ought to enter upon sleep as into a strange, fair chapel. Fragrant and melodious antechamber of the unseen, sleep is a novitiate for the beyond.”
– Unknown

“Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.”
– Unknown

“Sleep is a belonging to all; even if all songs are old songs and the singing heart is snuffed out like a switchman’s lantern with the oil gone, even if we forget our names and houses in the finish, the secret of sleep is left us, sleep belongs to all, sleep is the first and last and best of all.”
– Unknown

“Sleep is a nightly reminder that we are beholden to our bodies, that we are our bodies, and that one day we will die. It puts us at the wrong end of the mind-body dualism that has, from Plato through Descartes, raised mind over body. It’s a blow to our dignity, a reminder … that we are (to borrow a phrase from Shakespeare) “stinkingly dependent.”
– Unknown

“Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.”
– Unknown

“How do people go to sleep? I’m afraid I’ve lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.”
– Unknown

“I go to bed, and I wait for sleep as a man might wait for the executioner. I wait for its coming with dread, and my heart beats and my legs tremble, while my whole body shivers beneath the warmth of the bedclothes, until the moment when I suddenly fall asleep, as a man throws himself into a pool of stagnant water in order to drown. I do not feel this perfidious sleep coming over me as I used to, but a sleep which is close to me and watching me, which is going to seize me by the head, to close my eyes and annihilate me.”
– Unknown

“If people were meant to pop out of bed, we’d all sleep in toasters.”
– Unknown

“I’m not asleep… but that doesn’t mean I’m awake.”
– Unknown

“A day without a nap is like a cupcake without frosting.”
– Unknown

“Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.”
– Unknown

“Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.”
– Unknown

“Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.”
– Unknown

“To sleep is an act of faith.”
– Unknown

“We sleep, but the loom of life never stops; and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up tomorrow.”
– Unknown

“What has to do with your ability to fall asleep is not caffeine. It is having a clean conscience. I have a clean conscience so I can drink all the caffeine I want.”
– Unknown

“Without enough sleep, we all become tall two-year-olds.”
– Unknown

“Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.”
– Virginia Woolf

“Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals.”
– Vladimir Nabokov

“What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.”
– Werner Herzog

“He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.”
– William Dean Howells

“Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.”
– William Golding

“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

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

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

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