Top sleep Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of sleep quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Patrick deWitt
...but I could not sleep without proper covering and spent the rest of the night rewriting lost arguments from my past, altering history so that I emerged victorious.
- Patrick deWitt
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Image of Elizabeth Smart
Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.
- Elizabeth Smart
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Image of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Isn't there someone kind enough to come strangle me in my sleep?
- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
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Image of Molly Ringwald
Yes, my kids come first, but as a parent I need to come to them with a fresh mind. I can't be too exhausted or too tired. And I am a better parent when I have more energy.
- Molly Ringwald
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Image of Lilith Saintcrow
But it's a whole lot easier to keep[secrets] when you've got someone else who knows breathing in the same room. Carrying them alone is like having a huge spiky weight digging into your shoulders and chest, a weight you can't shift even while you're sleeping.
- Lilith Saintcrow
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Image of Alfred Lord Tennyson
I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Image of T. Boone Pickens
Work eight hours and sleep eight hours, and make sure that they are not the same eight hours.
- T. Boone Pickens
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Image of Aristotle Onassis
You are not truly wealthy unless you earn money while you are sleeping
- Aristotle Onassis
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Image of Aristotle Onassis
Don’t sleep too much. If you sleep 3 hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in.
- Aristotle Onassis
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Image of Patrick White
She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she alone would interpret through some sense inherited from sleep.
- Patrick White
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Image of Pierre Trudeau
Americans should never underestimate the constant pressure on Canada which the mere presence of the United States has produced. We're different people from you and we're different people because of you. Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is effected by every twitch and grunt. It should not therefore be expected that this kind of nation, this Canada, should project itself as a mirror image of the United States.
- Pierre Trudeau
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Image of Kwame Nkrumah
We have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world!
- Kwame Nkrumah
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Image of Jane Pauley
You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense.
- Jane Pauley
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Image of John Waters
Don’t sleep with people who don’t read.
- John Waters
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Image of Amber Benson
It doesn't matter who you sleep with, it's how you treat other people in this world.
- Amber Benson
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Image of David Steindl-Rast
Day and night gifts keep pelting down on us. If we were aware of this, gratefulness would overwhelm us. But we go through life in a daze. A power failure makes us aware of what a gift electricity is; a sprained ankle lets us appreciate walking as a gift, a sleepless night, sleep. How much we are missing in life by noticing gifts only when we are suddenly deprived of them.
- David Steindl-Rast
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Image of Edith Piaf
For me, sleeping is a waste of time. I'm afraid to sleep. It's a form of death.
- Edith Piaf
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Image of Makoto Shinkai
I see why now Tohno-kun is different from the others. Like the rocket shooting off into space, on the loneliest journey to the far end of the solar system. Because he's always looking at something beyond me. He can never see me. I cried myself to sleep, thinking of him.
- Makoto Shinkai
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Image of Octavio Paz
The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.
- Octavio Paz
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Image of Cathie Linz
When I can't sleep I count the buckles on my straightjacket.
- Cathie Linz
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Image of Billie Letts
She always set three alarms for fear that the first employees to arrive would discover her sleeping - a Goldilocks without her bears
- Billie Letts
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Image of Gregory Maguire
Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.
- Gregory Maguire
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Image of Devon Monk
I needed sleep. Big squishy bunches of it. Soon.
- Devon Monk
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Image of Malin Akerman
It's so funny because you think you're attracted to this bad boy. They do whatever they want, but you don't really want that. You don't want someone who's out on a tour bus, sleeping around with different people and getting wasted.
- Malin Akerman
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Image of Nicki Minaj
Pussy put his ass to sleep, now he calling me NyQuil
- Nicki Minaj
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Image of Charles Robert Maturin
The soul shares not the body's test.
- Charles Robert Maturin
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Image of Elizabeth Berg
I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered.
- Elizabeth Berg
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Image of Robin Wasserman
There are some moments you'd rather sleep through, pass from point A to point B without awareness of the time passing or the events that carry you from present to future. And it's mostly those moments in which it's smarter-safer- to stay awake.
- Robin Wasserman
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Image of Josh Lanyon
Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual.
- Josh Lanyon
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Image of Josh Lanyon
He shifted over without comment, lifting the blankets, and I scrambled into the warm sheets beside him. He smelled like soap and sleep and bare skin. He smelled familiar. Not the deja vu familiar of Guy or Mel. Familiar like...the ache in your chest of homesickness, of longing for harbor after weeks of rough seas or craving a fire's warmth after snow--or wanting back something you should never have given away.
- Josh Lanyon
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Image of Karen White
The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night.
- Karen White
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Image of Dean Young
I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping.
- Dean Young
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Image of Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Every cure of obesity must begin with these three essential precepts:discretion in eating, moderation in sleeping, and exercise.
- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Image of Carrie Vaughn
Apparently it was unethical for lawyers to sleep with their clients. This from a man who offered legal representation to assassins.
- Carrie Vaughn
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Image of Craig Silvey
Still, there is something emboldening about being awake when the rest of the world is sleeping. Like I know something they don't.
- Craig Silvey
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Image of Jacquelyn Mitchard
There's a strange sensation - you recall it from childhood - about sleeping in the afternoon. You rise into a different world from the one in which you lay down. The shadows have been rearranged. There's a sensation of sad sweetness, as if something has been overlooked. I used to feel it coming out of the movies just before dinnertime, after the matinee. How, I wondered, did Broadway actors face it, this bittersweet sense of time's slipping past.
- Jacquelyn Mitchard
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Image of Apsley Cherry-Garrard
And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you greet him rather as a welcome friend than a gruesome foe.
- Apsley Cherry-Garrard
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Image of Lynsay Sands
Still in Bed?" Thomas had asked with amusement, as Lissianna had blinked at them. "I am so glad you got at least a little rest today. I feared you'd work Greg to death while the rest of us tried to sleep.
- Lynsay Sands
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Image of William Irwin Thompson
But the time has come; the revelation has already occurred, and the guardian seers have seen the lightning strike the darkness we call reality. And now we sleep in the brief interval between the lightning and the thunder.
- William Irwin Thompson
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Image of Daniel Tosh
I'll tell you what's better than watching the sunrise... Sleeping through it.
- Daniel Tosh
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Image of Connie Willis
I was never going to get any sleep. I was going to have Alice in Wonderland conversation after Alice in Wonderland conversation until I died of exhaustion. Here, in the restful, idyllic Victorian era.
- Connie Willis
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Image of Gene Tierney
The things we ignore often come back to us in our sleep.
- Gene Tierney
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Image of John Stuart Mill
Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising
- John Stuart Mill
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Image of Vita Sackville-West
Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.
- Vita Sackville-West
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Image of Diana Nyad
If you can just immerse yourself in your life, it doesn't matter what you do everyday. Just do it intensely. Be in it, so that when you go to sleep you're exhausted every night and you say, 'Whoa, I just couldn't have done any more with that day.'
- Diana Nyad
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Image of R.L. LaFevers
I pause at the door, wishing I could find a corner and sleep until my head clears, but the sailor said the abbess is expecting me, and while I do not know much about abbesses, I suspect they are not fond of waiting.
- R.L. LaFevers
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Image of R.L. LaFevers
God's Teeth,' he says. 'I was only trying to wake you. You were crying out in your sleep.' 'I was not,' I say, then look from his neck to my knife. 'When I tried to wake you, you stabbed me.' He sounds sore put out. and I cannot blame him.
- R.L. LaFevers
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Image of C.C. Hunter
That’s the tricky thing about love. It walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and smells like a duck. But after you sleep with it a month or so, or get dumped at the altar by it, it starts smelling more like a skunk.
- C.C. Hunter
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Image of Kazuya Minekura
Eat till you're full. Play anytime you want. Sleep as much as you like. Cry. Get angry. Laugh. Live. Live. Live.
- Kazuya Minekura
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Image of Ozzy Osbourne
I was curious, given the swimming pools of booze I’ve guzzled over the years - not to mention all of the cocaine, morphine, sleeping pills, cough syrup, LSD, Rohypnol… there’s really no plausible medical reason why I should still be alive. Maybe my DNA could say why.
- Ozzy Osbourne
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