Sleep Quotes
Sleep has been a topic of conversation throughout the ages. Sleep.com has compiled a collection of sleep sayings, funny sleep quotes and other sleep-related thoughts and musings. Read what everyone from famous politicians and celebs to artists, authors and philosophers have said about the wonderful world of sleep and slumber.
"Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day." ~Friedrich Nietzsche
"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
"No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap." ~Carrie Snow
"People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one." ~Leo J. Burke
"Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep." ~Fran Lebowitz
"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." ~Charles Caleb Colton
"A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book." ~Irish Proverb
"Life is too short to sleep on low thread-count sheets." ~Leah Stussy
"Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up." ~Ellen Goodman
"Consciousness: that annoying time between naps." ~Author Unknown
"Dawn: When men of reason go to bed." ~Ambrose Bierce
"If people were meant to pop out of bed, we'd all sleep in toasters." ~Author unknown, attributed to Jim Davis
"Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation." ~Author Unknown
"If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he'd make a fortune." ~Griff Niblack
"A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow." ~Charlotte Brontë
"People who snore always fall asleep first." ~Author Unknown
"There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock." ~Author Unknown
"Fatigue is the best pillow." ~Benjamin Franklin
"The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more." ~Wilson Mizener
"A day without a nap is like a cupcake without frosting." ~Terri Guillemets
"Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." ~Benjamin Franklin
"I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting." ~Mark Twain
"Death's brother, Sleep." ~Virgil
"Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone." ~Anthony Burgess
"I love sleep. My life has a tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?" ~Ernest Hemingway
"Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals." ~Vladimir Nabokov
"Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep." ~Albert Camus
"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'll sleep when I'm dead." ~Warren Zevon
