Quotes about sleep

I have selected out various themes of quotations to make them a little easier to browse, all these quotes are about 'Sleep'.

Sleep 'til you're hungry, eat 'til you're sleepy. (Unknown)
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. (Leo J. Burke )
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled. (Edward Lucas)
Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death. (Unknown)
Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep. (Fran Lebowitz) Click here for illustrated quote
I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather. Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. (Unknown)
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Do not go back to sleep. (Rumi)
A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness. (Marcel Proust)
Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head, and kick every worriment out of the bed. (Edmund Vance Cooke)
Many things - such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them. (C.S. Lewis)
The best cure for insomnia is a Monday morning. (Unknown)
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)
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book. (Irish Proverb)
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own. (Plutarch)
When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake. (P.D. Ouspensky)
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap. (Carrie Snow)
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world. (Leonard Cohen)
People who snore always fall asleep first. ~Author Unknown (Unknown)
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. (Anthony Burgess)
Consciousness: that annoying time between naps. (Unknown)
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. (Charlotte Bronte)
A day without a nap is like a cupcake without frosting. (Terri Guillemets)
If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he'd make a fortune. (Griff Niblack)
I'm not asleep... but that doesn't mean I'm awake. (Unknown)
Fatigue is the best pillow. (Benjamin Franklin)
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

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