Sleep Quotes

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)

In sleep a king, but, waking, no such matter. (Sonnet 87)

How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? (Proverbs 6:9)  

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.

The pillow is a silent Sibyl, and it is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that.

He sleeps well who knows not that he sleeps ill.