Sleep Quotes

Don’t go to sleep, so many people die there. (often erroneously attributed to Mark Twain)

He who stands, lives, he who sleeps, dies.

If you can’t sleep, try lying on the end of the bed, then you might drop off. (often erroneously attributed to Mark Twain)

Better wear out shoes than sheets

The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can’t get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.

What hath night to do with sleep?

O sleep, thou ape of death! (Cymbeline)

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

Who has the fame to be an early riser may sleep till noon.

Love, sweetness, goodness in her person shined So clear, as in no face with more delight. But O as to embrace me she inclined I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.