Sleep Quotes

• When did a doctor prescribe, not sleeping pills, but sleep itself? It needs to be prioritised, even incentivised.

  

  Matthew Walker
  • Sleep

• I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.

  

  Alphonse Karr
  • Hope
  • Wife
  • Judge

• I closed the door like so many times, so many times beforeFelt like a scene on the cutting room floorWhen I let you walk away tonight without a wordI tried to sleep but the clock is stuck on thoughts of you and meA thousand more regrets unravelingIf you were here right now, I swear I'd tell you this

  

  Backstreet Boys
  • Thoughts
  • Door
  • Cutting

• It's hard to sleep at night because I'm still wondering where my mother is.

  

  Fred Savage
  • Mother
  • Night
  • Sleep

• I myself have suffered periodically from hearing voices at night when I'm trying to sleep.

  

  Elizabeth George
  • Trying
  • Night
  • Sleep

• So Hell Week is considered to be the hardest week of the hardest military training in the world. It is a week of continuous military training during which most classes sleep for a total of two to five hours over the course of the entire week.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • Training
  • Military
  • Considered

• The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Sleep
  • Come
  • American Dream

• I've always been a deep sleeper; because I come from such a large family - there are 10 kids - I could sleep through anything. Even with my last day job, I'd sleep in later and later and start coming in an hour-and-a-half late. I got fired twice before I really got fired.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Family
  • Job
  • Kids

• Does the sweet morning rise,Bride-like, from sleep,When their first revelriesBird and bee keep,Singing out joyouslyIn the green tree ?Then, when my hopes are high,Think I of thee.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • High
  • Morning
  • Singing

• I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it.

  

  Mark E. Smith
  • Sleep

• 'I squeezed Fay’s hand, kissed her on the forehead. She closed her eyes and seemed to sleep then. She was not a young woman. Maybe she hadn’t saved the world but she had made a major improvement. Ring one up for Fay.'

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Up
  • World
  • She

• I don't seem to require a lot of sleep. I just - if I get four, five good hours, I'm fine. But sleeping is sort of dull. There's a lot of other good stuff that you can do without just lying down and closing your eyes.

  

  Betty White
  • Good
  • Eyes
  • Sleep

• I have used movies to go to sleep at night. You flip from channel to channel to channel and see just enough to make your brain mushy and go to sleep.

  

  Kip Thorne
  • Night
  • Brain
  • Movies

• I don't dwell on it. But I guess everybody hopes that they go in their sleep and that it won't be long and painful.

  

  Peter Falk
  • Long
  • Sleep

• Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Grave
  • Repose
  • Woe

• I have a lot of energy after 2 A.M. I like to sleep in the morning. I have some problems at the start of the day.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Energy
  • Day
  • Morning

• When you're short on sleep, you're short on patience. You're ruder to people, less tolerant, less understanding. It's harder to relate and to pay attention for sustained periods of time.

  

  Jason Fried
  • People
  • Time
  • Attention

• My son was autistic, and he suffered from seizure disorder every 5 to 10 days. He would suffer a seizure that would last 45 seconds to a minute and sleep for 12 hours.

  

  John Travolta
  • Suffering
  • Son
  • Hours

• A visible darkness grows up mountain paths;I lodge by the river gate high in a study,Frail cloud on a cliff edge passing the night.The lonely moon topples amid the waves;Steady, one after another, a line of cranes in flight.Howling over the kill, wild dogs and wolves.No sleep for me. I worry over battles-I have no strength to right the universe.

  

  Du Fu
  • Up
  • High
  • Night

• But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.

  

  Mary Augusta Ward
  • Mind
  • Sleep

• My mornings start with mom coming into my bedroom and waking me up, or trying to wake me up, and then I go back to sleep. Then my mom wakes me up again and yells at me. Then she'll get me to wake up, and I'll get dressed and go to school. We go to school, and my teacher tells me that I didn't do the homework well enough. And that's that.

  

  Alex Wolff
  • Up
  • Trying
  • School

• How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Sleep

• Sleep, ignorant of pain, sleep, ignorant of grief, may you come to us blowing softly, kindly, kindly come king.

  

  Sophocles
  • Pain
  • Sleep
  • King

• If you can't eat it, can't sleep under it, can't wear it or make something from it, it's not worth anything.

  

  Don Young
  • Sleep

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