Sleep Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old sleep quotes, sleep sayings, and sleep proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours' oblivion. Anne Reeve Aldrich
Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind. William Golding
Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation. J. M. Coetzee
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil. Henry Ward Beecher
It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting. Daniel Handler
Sleep. To lie down and shut out the noise, the fear, the unceasing misery. Tad Williams
No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap. Carrie Snow
Sleep is the gateway to those nightly visitations of the irrational. Gayle Greene
Sleep is the salutary bath that renovates life, the entire being growing younger under its influence; it is a station in the desert of this world; and often, after dull and wearying journeys, one comes to repose in this oasis prepared by divine Providence, enabled the next day to pursue the route with renewed courage and activity. Early Rising
There, in the depths of sleep, is the communion of the living and the dead. Gennady Aygi
Sleep is a hint of lovely oblivion. D. H. Lawrence
Night has brought to those who sleep, only dreams they can not keep. Enya
Sleep is like the unicorn - it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any. unknown
Sleep hath its own world, and a wide realm of wild reality. And dreams in their development have breath, and tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy. Lord Byron
A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures. George Bernard Shaw
Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. Similarly, someone who hears traumatic news will often swoon or faint. This is the mind's way of protecting itself from pain. Patrick Rothfuss
Get enough sleep every night. An exhausted mind is rarely productive. unknown
Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica. J. G. Ballard
Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn. Mahatma Gandhi