Sleep Quotes

Having children is like living in a frat house. Nobody sleeps, everything’s broken, and there’s a lot of throwing up.

We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep. (“The Scarlet Letter”)

I think of my happy place as I transition into sleep. I think that’s the case for everyone – that place you think of as you drift off, that place of comfort, is where you find yourself to be happiest. For me it’s always the same place. There’s a beach, which I can’t remember the […]

Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, with such unknown horrors as it has for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that […]

A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

He who watches over you will not slumber. (Psalms 121:3)

It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.

And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. (Romans […]

Thou hast been called, O Sleep! The friend of woe; But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.

O sleep, of death although the image true, much I desire to share my bed with you. O come and tarry, for, how sweet to lie – Thus without life, thus without death to die.