sleep quotes

43 quotes

If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

Henny Youngman

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

Margaret Atwood

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Bertrand Russell

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it’s quite literally that.

Paul Auster

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

Babe Ruth

I take my sleep very, very important.

Sunil Chhetri

My brain and body and nervous system, they see a plane ride, a long plane trip, as an opportunity to sleep with nothing coming in, nothing to do. I just go offline the minute I’m on the plane.

Anthony Bourdain

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

J. Cole

We’re introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night’s sleep.

Richard Branson

‚O sleep, O gentle sleep,‘ I thought gratefully, ‚Nature’s soft nurse!‘

Elizabeth Kenny

I have no trouble sleeping.

Dalai Lama

There are certain nights you and your image just aren’t in the same bed.

Matthew McConaughey

Sleep is the best meditation.

Dalai Lama

I love sleep; it’s my favorite.

Kanye West

Turn 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

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

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

Virginia Woolf

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Leonardo da Vinci

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I sleep people. I put people unconscious. I’m stating facts.

Conor McGregor

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.

Samuel Johnson

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

Charles Spurgeon

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

Steve Jobs

Never get out of bed before noon.

Charles Bukowski

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

I’ve had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I’ve often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

Brian Eno

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

Ernest Hemingway

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

Chanakya

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

Aldous Huxley

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Francis Bacon

Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don’t know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.

Robert Baden-Powell

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

I firmly believe that sleep and recovery are critical aspects of an effective and holistic training program.

Tom Brady

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you’re not sleeping, you’re not recovering. And if you’re going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I’m up at 5:30 the next day.

Tom Brady

I make it a rule never to smoke while I’m sleeping.

Mark Twain

I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.

Adam Sandler

Fatigue is the best pillow.

Benjamin Franklin

Mind over mattress.

Stephen Covey

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

Marilyn Monroe

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Benjamin Franklin