Sleep Quotes

Sleep thou, and I will wind thee in my arms. (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)

I’ll sleep when I’m dead.

Sleep she as sound as careless infancy. (The Merry Wives of Windsor)

Then Jacob woke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place.” (Genesis 28:16-17)

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

The amount of sleep required by the average person is about five minutes more.

Old women snore violently. They are like bodies into which bizarre animals have crept at night; the animals are vicious, bawdy, noisy. How they snore! There is no shame to their snoring. Old women turn into old men.

Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.

Be anchored to some ideal, philosophy or cause that keeps you too excited to sleep.

How do people go to sleep? I’m afraid I’ve lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.