Sleep Quotes

No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day.

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

It would be an injury to the memory of Boerhaave, not to mention what was related by himself to one of his friends, that when he lay whole days and nights without sleep, he found no method of diverting his thoughts so effectual, as meditation upon his studies, and that he often relieved and mitigated […]

One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor’s maid? All that would go ill with good sleep.

It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back.

I don’t smoke. I just don’t sleep, man, that’s the trouble. I gotta sleep sometime… why sleep, man? I might miss a party.

I awoke you from your sleep because I saw that you were having a nightmare. And now you are cross and say to me: “What are we supposed to do now? Everything is still night!” You ingrates! You should go to sleep again and dream better.

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.