65 Sleep Quotes and Sayings
In this post, you will find amazing sleep sayings.
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Short Sleep Sayings
“To sleep is an act of faith.” —Barbara G. Harrison
“Death was a friend, and sleep was Death’s brother.” —John Steinbeck
“Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.” —Thomas Dekker
“Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.” —Francis Bacon
“I don’t even like to sleep – I feel as if there’s too much to do.” —James Franco
“Never waste any time you can spend sleeping.” —Frank H. Knight
“Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.” —Evan Davis
“Life is too short to sleep on low thread count sheets.” —Leah Stussy
“Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
“I don’t sleep. I hate those little slices of death.” —Walter Reisch
“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.” —Anthony Burgess
“Get enough sleep every night. An exhausted mind is rarely productive.” —Unknown
“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.” —Thomas Aquinas
“A well-spent day brings happy sleep.” —Leonardo da Vinci
“A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.” —Irish Proverb
“Soft closer of our eyes! Low murmur of tender lullabies!” —John Keats
“Eat healthily, sleep well, breathe deeply, move harmoniously.” —Jean-Pierre Barral
“The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.” —Homer
“Sleep – the most beautiful experience in life – except drink.” —W. C. Fields
“Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.” —Jessamyn West
“A day without a nap is like a cupcake without frosting.” —Terri Guillemets
“Sleep is the best meditation.” —Dalai Lama
“The timely dew of sleep.” —John Milton
Sleep Sayings
The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.” —E. Joseph Cossman
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.” —William Blake
You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” —Dr. Seuss
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.” —Henry Ward Beecher
If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.” —Henny Youngman
Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.” —Walt Whitman
God bless the man who first invented sleep!” So Sancho Panza said, and so say I.” —John Godfrey Saxe
Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.” —David Almond
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.” —Thomas Dekker
A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” —Victor Hugo
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night… without the satisfaction.” —Lynn Johnston
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” —E. M. Forster
Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.” —William G. Golding
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.” —Rene Descartes
Don’t fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.” —Edmund Vance Cooke
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.” —Albert Camus
The future is shaped by your dreams, so stop wasting time and go to sleep!” —Unknown
Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.” —Mahatma Gandhi
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.” —William Penn
The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.” —Patrick deWitt
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.” —Lord Byron
Funny Sleep Sayings
“Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.” —Dave Barry
“Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.” —John Ciardi
“I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.” —Mark Twain
“The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.” —Wilson Mizener
“Don’t give up on your dreams so soon, sleep longer.” —Unknown
“I’m so good at sleeping, I can do it with my eyes closed.” —Unknown
“Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.” —English proverb
“People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.” —Leo J. Burke
“Buy our alarm clock and you will sleep soundly.” —Unknown
Top Ten Sleep Sayings
Here you will find top ten sleep sayings selected by our team.
- “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” —Dr. Seuss
- “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” —Victor Hugo
- “The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.” —Wilson Mizener
- “Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.” —Francis Bacon
- “The future is shaped by your dreams, so stop wasting time and go to sleep!” —Unknown
- “God bless the man who first invented sleep!” So Sancho Panza said, and so say I.” —John Godfrey Saxe
- “The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.” —E. Joseph Cossman
- “Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.” —English proverb
- “I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.” —Mark Twain
- “Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.” —Lord Byron
