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Welcome to 55 of the Best Sleep Quotes to help you Sleepwell
Sleep can be frustrating, elusive, daunting, fearsome, evasive, nervous, anxious and lethargic!
So I thought I would lighten up a tad and list some great sleep quotes that I found, some are funny, some are positive and some are negative but make you think. We all need a laugh or cry sometimes!
Funny Sleep Quotes
~ Some people like their sleep funny
- “Dear sleep, thanks for trying, but you can’t beat surfing the net” ~ Anonymous
- “Don’t give up on your dreams so soon, sleep longer” ~ Anonymous
- “Why do they call it beauty sleep when you wake up looking so terrible?” ~ Me
- “Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill & a laxative on the same night” ~ Dave Barry
- “Sleeping is hard in the summer because the blankets are warm, but without them I am vulnerable to monsters”
- “Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone” ~ Anthony Burgess
- “The amount of sleep required by the average person is 5 minutes more” ~ Wilson Mizener
- “If a man had as many ideas in the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune” ~ Griff Niblack
- “People who say they sleep like a baby, usually don’t have one” ~ Leo J Burke
- “People who snore always fall asleep first” ~ Anonymous
- “I had a dream I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep – Stan Laurel
- “I used to sleep nude-until the earthquake” ~ Alyssa Milano
- “In the middle east, in the summertime, to keep cool, a lot of people sleep on the rooftops” ~ Daron Malakian
- “But cats to me are strange, so strange, I cannot sleep if one is near” ~ W.H.Davies
- “It’s such a waste, sleep, your just lying there” ~ Peter Beard
Positive Sleep Quotes
~ Some people realise that Sleep should be a positive vibe!
- “Fatigue is the best pillow” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “I love sleep, my life as a tendency to fall apart when I’m awake” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Never go to bed mad, stay up and fight” ~ Phyllis Diller
- “Each night when I go to be i die, then in the morning I am reborn” ~ Mahatma Ghandi
- “I think insomnia is a sign that someone is interesting” ~ Avery Sawyer (Notes to self)
- “Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep” ~ Mahatma Ghandi
- “Good night-may you fall asleep in the arms of a dream so beautiful you’ll cry when your awake” ~ Michael Faudet
- “Never waste any time you can spend sleeping” ~ Frank H Knight
- “Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together” ~ Thomas Dekker
- “Your life is a reflection of how you sleep, and how you sleep is a reflection on your life” ~ Dr Rafael Pelayo
- “There is a time for many words-and there is also a time for sleep” ~ Homer
- “The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream” ~ Marilyn Monroe
- “The best bridge between despair and hope is a good nights sleep” ~ E. Joseph Cossman
- “Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the day and too sleepy too worry at night” ~ Anonymous
- “I love to sleep, I’d sleep all day if I could” ~ Miley Cyrus
- “Sleep-the most beautiful experience in life-except drink” ~ W.C.Fields
- “I count it as a certainty, that in paradise everyone sleeps” ~ Tom Hodgkinson
- “As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings a happy death” ~ Leonardo de vinci
- “No day is so bad it can’t be fixed with a sleep” ~ Carrie Snow
- “Sorrow can be alleviated by a good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine” ~ Thomas Aquinas
- “All I want to is sleep-to dream-life is better in dreams” ~ Christina Westsover
- “Marriage is good for those too scared to sleep alone” ~ St Jerome
- “Cats have it all, admiration, endless sleep, and company only when they want it” ~ Rod Mckuen
- “I pray every night before I go to sleep, and every morning when I wake up” ~ Demi Lovato
- “It’s better to sleep on things beforehand, then lie awake about them afterwards” ~ Baltasar Gracian
- “I do feel like an outsider, but I don’t lose any sleep over it” ~ Mark E. Smith
- “Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep” ~ Fran Lebowitz
- “I’ll sleep when I’m dead” ~ Warren Zevon
- “No man can become a saint in his sleep” ~ Henry Drummond
- “I try to get 12-12 hours sleep a night, that’s what I really need” ~ Heather Graham
Negative Sleep Quotes
~ some people feel rather negative about the whole sleep experience
- “Nothing cures Insomnia like the feeling that it’s time to get up” ~ me
- “Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them” ~ Edgar Allen Poe
- “The night is the hardest time to be alive – and 4am knows all my secrets” ~ Poppy Z. Brite
- “There is no sunrise so beautiful that is worth waking me up to see it” ~ Mindy Kaling
- “The worst thing is the world is to try to sleep but not to” ~ F.Scott Fitzgerald
- “A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow” ~ Charlotte Bronte
- “The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things to be done” ~ Donald Knuth
- “There 12 hours in the day and above 50 in the night” ~ Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
- “I don’t even like sleep – I feel like there’s too much to do” ~ James Franco
- “The only time I have problems is when I sleep” ~ Tupac Shakur
- “Death was a friend – And sleep was Deaths brother” ~ John Steinbeck (The grapes of wrath)
- “I won’t sleep, if that’s what it take, to not wake up as myself” ~ Casey Renee Kiser
- “Those with a moral deficit, put on a good show-and sleep like a baby” ~ Paul Newman
- “Even where sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing” ~ Homer
- “No matter how tired I am, I can only sleep for 4 hours at a time” ~ Micky Dolenz
- “Though sleep is called our best friend, it’s a friend that often keeps us waiting” ~ Jules Verne
- “Death gives us sleep, eternal youth and immortality” ~ Jean Paul
- “I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone” ~ Emile Cioran
- “You can’t stay married in a situation where you can’t go to sleep in case your wife slits your throat” ~ Mike Tyson
- “When I was 15 or 16 I slept really well then, now I sleep on a bed of anxiety tipped nails” ~ James Mcevoy
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