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We've taken the time to compile our favourite quotes about sleep. 121 sleep quotes in fact. From heartfelt sayings to thought-provoking proverbs. Explore a world from quotes with sleep at the forefront of all of them.
Enjoy reading them before bed as a new wind-down routine or as a way to help your children fall asleep.
If after you're done exploring these beautiful sleep quotes, take the time to learn about 20 Fascinating Sleep Facts You Never Knew About.
Inspirational Sleep Quotes
- "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." - Benjamin Franklin
- "There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep." - Homer, The Odyssey
- "A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book." - Irish Proverb
- "Sleep is the single most effective thing we can do to reset our brain and body health each day" - Dr Matthew Walker
- âEach night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.â- Mahatma Gandhi
- âYea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.â - H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure
- âSleep is God. Go worship.â - Jim Butcher, Death Masks
- âMan is a genius when he is dreaming.â - Akira Kurosawa
- âEat healthily, sleep well, breathe deeply, move harmoniously.â - Jean-Pierre Barral
- âAnything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.â - David Almond, My Name Is Mina
- "Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon." - Charles M. Schulz
- "We are such stuff as dreams are made on." - William Shakespeare
- âBefore you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.â - Desiderius Erasmus
- "There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled." - Edward Lucas
- "No day is so bad it canât be fixed with a nap." - Carrie Snow
- "Having peace, happiness and healthiness is my definition of beauty. And you can't have any of that without sleep." - Beyonce
- "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
- "Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel." - Francesca Annis
- "If I have a bad game, I think about what I have to do to return to form. Figure it out, go to sleep, and wake up a new man." - Matt Kemp
- "I'm going to sleep well tonight knowing that I made the right decision." - George Ryan
- "Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.â - David Almond
- "I LOVE TO SLEEP. When I'm rested, I'm at my best." - Halle Berry
- "Sleep has become profoundly important. I didnât understand the value of it." - Jamie Oliver
- "People spend money on beauty potions, but a good night's rest makes all the difference." - Christina Aguilera
- "Tired minds don't plan well. Sleep first, plan later." - Walter Reisch
Funny Sleep Quotes
- "Without enough sleep, we all become tall two-year-olds." - Jojo Jensen
- "I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?" - Ernest Hemingway
- âLaugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.â - Anthony Burgess
- âThere is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.â - Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
- âSome people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleepâ - Albert Camus
- âWhoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!â - Martin Luther
- âDreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night.â - Charles Fisher
- âThe best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.â - W.C. Fields
- âTime to start getting more sleep. This beautiful physique needs royal treatment.â - Elizabeth Rudnick, Tweet Heart
- âAlways wear cute pyjamas to bed, you'll never know who you will meet in your dreams.â - Joel Madden
- "You miss 100% of the naps you donât take." - Unknown
- "I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four." - Yogi Berra
- "When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap." - Tom Hodgkinson
- "A day without a nap is like a cupcake without frosting." - Terri Guillemets
- "The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more." - Wilson Mizener
- "Any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime." - Red Skelton
- "Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it." - Rod McKuen
- "No wonder Sleeping Beauty looked so good...she took long naps, never got old, and didn't have to do anything but snore to get her Prince Charming.â - Olive Green
- "When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument." - Zsa Zsa Gabor
- "Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank." - Alphonse Allais
- "Next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you're in a science fiction movie. And whisper, 'The creature is regenerating itself.'" - George Carlin
Romantic Sleep Quotes
- âYou know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.â - Dr. Seuss
- âI make love with a focus and intensity that most people reserve for sleep.â - Dark Jar Tin Zoo
- âSleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other, knits the sleep, so that it takes the body and soul completely in its healing.â - D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
- "Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night." - St. Jerome
- âHow strange, to dream of you, even when I am wide awake.â â D.J.
- âAnd I start sleeping and dreaming and I think Iâll dream about you all through the night.â â John Mayer
For When You Can't Sleep Quotes
- "The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep." - E. Joseph Cossman
- "Insomnia is my greatest inspiration." - Jon Stewart
- "A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow." - Charlotte Bronte
- âThe night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.â - Poppy Z. Brite
- âWhen action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.â - Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness
- âIf you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.â - Dale Carnegie
- âPut my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.â - Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- âI crave the sweet surrender of sleep and my dreams' uncensored communication: no tiresome small talk, sucking up to impress, or tiptoeing around charged topics. Dreams are the naked truth; get ready for it.â - Judith Orloff
- âNever waste any time you can spend sleeping.â - Frank H. Knight
- âAs important as it is to have a plan for doing work, it is perhaps more important to have a plan for rest, relaxation, self-care, and sleep.â - Akiroq Brost
- âAll I want is to sleep--to dream. Life is better in dreams.â - Christina Westover, Poisoning Sylvie
- "Your future depends on your dreams, so go to sleep." - Mesut Barazany
- "When you lie down, you will not be afraid. Your sleep will be sweet." - Proverbs
- "If you were not to set an alarm clock, would you sleep past it? If the answer is yes, then there is clearly more sleep that is needed." - Matthew Walker
- "There's a reason they call it 'beauty sleep.' Getting 7 to 9 hours of sleep a night can actually improve your appearance." - Lauren Conrad
- "A mom who has slept is an alert and happier mommy." - Tamera Mowry
- "Taking breaks isnât about cheating yourself, itâs about treating yourself.â - Curtis Tyrone Jones
- "In this fast-paced world, it's important to slow down sometimes.â - Dano Janowski
- "Put my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.â - Stephen Chbosky
- "A night full of nightmares is way better than a sleepless one.â - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- "We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us." - Laurie Colwin
- "My body has decreed that I shall nap, and nothing will stand in my way.â - Kathryn Ormsbee
- "Reading and naps, two of life's greatest pleasures, go especially well together.â - Will Schwalbe
- "I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.â - Jennifer Niven
Thought Provoking Sleep Quotes
- âWhat would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.â - Werner Herzog
- âDeath, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.â - Lord George Gordon Byron
- âSleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.â - Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
- âIn whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.â - Hippocrates, The Aphorisms of Hippocrates
- âIf a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!â - Antoine de Saint-ExupĂŠry, Night Flight
- âI had a dream I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.â - Stan Laurel
- âSleep's what we need. It produces an emptiness in us into which sooner or later energies flow.â - John Cage, M: Writings '67-'72
- âAnd so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have already slept so much and are preparing to sleep for all eternity.â - Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
- âBoth sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.â - Hippocrates, Aphorisms
- âOur birth is but a sleep and a forgetting...â - William Wordsworth, The Major Works
- "True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment." - William Penn
- "Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.â â Albert Camus
- "There is renewal in rest.â - Lailah Gifty Akita
- "I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep is the consummate protection against the unseemliness that is the invariable consequence of being awake. What you don't know won't hurt you.â - Fran Lebowitz
- "My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better." - Marlo Thomas
- "Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- "Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them." - Cam Newton
- "Human beings are the only species that deliberately deprive themselves of sleep for no apparent gain. Many people walk through their lives in an underslept state, not realizing it." - Matthew Walker
- "Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night." - William Blake
- "Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.â - Mark Buchanan
- "I think insomnia is a sign that a person is interesting.â - Avery Sawyer
- "A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep." - W.H. Auden
- "Rest is the best cure for busy man and work is the best cure for lazy man.â - Amit Kalantri
- "What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.â - Werner Herzog
- "Sleep is the Swiss army knife of health. When sleep is deficient, there is sickness and disease. And when sleep is abundant, there is vitality and health." - Matthew Walker
- "There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.â - Alan Cohen
Beautiful Sleep Quotes
- "Sleep is the best meditation." - Dalai Lama
- "Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious." - Sigmund Freud
- "Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together." - Thomas Dekker
- âEven a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.â - Heraclitus, Fragments
- âGood night - may you fall asleep in the arms of a dream, so beautiful, you'll cry when you awake.â - Michael Faudet
- âWhen you wake up with a song stuck in your head, it means an angel sang you to sleep.â - Denise Baer
- âSometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.â - Albert Camus
- "The nicest thing for me is sleep. Then at least I can dream." - Marilyn Monroe
- "When I wake up, I am reborn." - Mahatma Gandhi
- "Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death." - Arthur Schopenhauer
- "A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them." - Victor Hugo
- "At the end of the day, you go to sleep with the people you love, you wake up with the people you love, and you spend your time with the people you love." - Tyga
- "We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep." - William Shakespeare
- "How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams." - Bram Stoker
- "A little bit of rest can go a long way.â - A.D. Aliwat
- "In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable." - Knute Nelson
- "As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death." - Leonardo da Vinci
- "Sleep is a regenerative process where we heal and where our neurons build strong connections. It's like a fountain of youth that we dive into every night." - Mikhail Varshavski
- "She stared at the stars like they were pillow for her mind and in their light she could rest her heavy head.â - Christopher Poindexter
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