Top 646 Sleep Quotes

Have we so soon forgotten those four years of terrible carnage, the greatest war of all time; forgotten the millions of men who gave their lives, who made the supreme sacrifice and who today, beneath the soil of France and Belgium, sleep the eternal sleep?
Frank B. Kellogg
Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.
Tom Brady
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
Nikola Tesla
They wanted to give me some other man’s liver, and I told them ‘I’m not going to sleep next to my wife with another man’s liver.’
Vicente Fernandez
For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‘Did you sleep good?’ I said ‘No, I made a few mistakes.’
Steven Wright
‘The Big Sleep’ would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart’s relation to the crime.
Manny Farber
The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.
Jocko Willink
Getting as much sleep as possible and following a healthy diet will stop you from feeling run-down if, like me, you’re super-stressed.
Elizabeth Hurley
Naps are the key to relieving stress. When you are working on two hours of sleep, the fact that cheese comes on something when you ordered it with no cheese is enough to send you crying under the covers for an hour.
Keri Russell
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
Victor Hugo
The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep.
Jacques Maritain
I actually stop breathing, I think it’s 80 times a night, because I have sleep apnea. I’ve had it since I was a kid.
Shaun Ryder
I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. She used to wake me up in the middle of the night if I wasn’t sleeping straight and was messing up the sheets. Now when I stay in hotels I sleep so straight they don’t even think I’ve used the bed.
Marina Abramovic
It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe – you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
Lord Byron
I’ve had a fantastic career. I can sleep at night, and I’m happy with that.
Ashlyn Harris
The only time I have problems is when I sleep.
Tupac Shakur
Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.
Evan Davis
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
George Orwell
My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I’m 31-years-old, and I don’t want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It’s humiliating.
Ben Affleck
If a man lets all of my dogs sleep in the bed with us, then that is the most romantic thing. You must love my dogs in order to love me. A man who is nice to my animals and doesn’t shoo them away – well, that’s the height of romance.
Salma Hayek
I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don’t know when they sleep.
Val Kilmer
Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and Mike and Ed and Leslie and Steve, that we’re not going go out and do stories that will put people to sleep.
Morley Safer
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples

Man has to awaken to wonder – and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Maybe you don’t like your job, maybe you didn’t get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there’s no escape, there’s no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.
Ani DiFranco
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
Francis Beaumont
I think sleep’s really important. I value it as much as waking up and having a full day.
Jena Malone
The body needs its rest, and sleep is extremely important in any health regimen. There should be three main things: eating, exercise and sleep. All three together in the right balance make for a truly healthy lifestyle.
Rohit Shetty
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
Heinrich Heine
When children are very young, you read them books that are positive to help them go to sleep. But there comes a moment when they begin to understand the difficulties of the world. They know there are problems and the books they read should reflect that, not gloss over them.
Michael Morpurgo
I don’t sleep much. I’m on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything.
Bill Walton
It’s during dream sleep where we start to actually take the sting out of difficult, even traumatic, emotional experiences that we’ve been having. And sleep almost divorces that emotional, bitter rind from the memory experiences that we’ve had during the day.
Matthew Walker
I used to sleep with a little Ganesha under my pillow as a child; he was my favourite deity.
Mahesh Bhatt
I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle. The people I know who are married – 90 percent of them have houses and live in the same place and sleep in the same bed every night.
Adam Levine
People say to me, ‘Oh, being a mother must make you a better actor,’ and I think, ‘Well, I never sleep, I have very little time to think about anything except when I’m actually there.’ I wonder whether that makes me a better actor. I think it must on some level.
Mireille Enos
I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.
Oliver Reed
My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It’s arthritic. I have a bad nerve in the back of my eye.
Joe Montana
I go without sleep, I just go hard.
Tom Cruise
I’m one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.
Carter Burwell
It’s much easier for me to sleep in space than it is back home. We sleep in a cabin, and you can float inside.
Kevin A. Ford
If you never lie to yourself, you’ll always be happy with yourself, and eventually the person you wake up with and the person you go to sleep with is yourself.
Afrojack
I do feel like an outsider, but I don’t lose any sleep over it.
Mark E. Smith
When I am in a hotel, and I turn off the lights and the TV, I just freak out. I turn the TV back on and don’t get any sleep.
Louis C. K.
If I lived alone, Mom’d never sleep because she wouldn’t know I was okay.
Scott Baio
The left side of my brain is telling me I want to sleep with every woman in the world and the other side of my brain is telling me I met this great girl and if I let that go I’m going to regret it.
Scott Caan
Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
Jules Verne
I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time – when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night – and that went on for eight years.
Andrew Wiles
I enjoy the simplistic training and life in marathon. You run, eat, sleep, walk around – that’s how life is. You don’t get complicated. The moment you get complicated it distracts your mind.
Eliud Kipchoge
We all parent the best we can. Being human, we’re ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
Erica Jong
I’m always nervous before starting a record because I can never sleep. I’m like, ‘I have no good ideas, everyone is gonna see through me.’
Mark Ronson
I sleep completely naked to make me believe you are here, but when I wake up it is not the same thing. Most of all, don’t deceive me with other women any more.
Camille Claudel
Hopefully I won’t have to sleep with my feet out of the tent.
Zdeno Chara
What could make my life better? Oh, if I could only find that magic bottle that lets you never have to sleep. I have so much stuff I wanna do, but… That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste!
Robert Rodriguez
We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.
Black Kettle
I don't think a director should have any kids. I don't

I don’t think a director should have any kids. I don’t even think it’s good for your physical health. Even guys in their 30s look exhausted because directors never get enough sleep. What I do is stressful enough.
Tom Berenger
One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.
Robert Browning
I remember I used to sleep on my records. In a room with no furniture. I remember I used to sleep in my car.
DJ Khaled
Unfortunately, I have a child who doesn’t sleep.
Mariacarla Boscono
I remember having a Mike Tyson T-shirt back in the day that I used to sleep in. And there some things that Tyson did along the way that I wasn’t too psyched to associate myself with. But back in the day, just as a fighter, what a dream that was to watch and root for him.
Eliza Dushku
I believe the reason we sleep is not just to allow our body to rest but that it is to allow this inner wisdom to speak to us through symbols. This includes the body or somatic problems as well as psychological ones. Dreams and drawings are useful in diagnosing physical conditions.
Bernie Siegel