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There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.
Sep 10, 2025
Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife, the years from off your life, my friend! the years that death takes off my life, he'll take from off the other end!
Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity, Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify, Weary bodies refresh and mollify.
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
Oh, insomnia! Ah, well, I know a good cure for it... Get plenty of sleep.
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.
Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You'll realize this as soon as they are born and they start using sleep deprivation to break you.
Sleep is like the unicorn - it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.
For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.
If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.
Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot.Ê It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.
A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky - I've thought of all by turns, and still I lie Sleepless.
The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.
And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.
The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.
Always wear cute pyjamas to bed, you'll never know who u will meet in your dreams.
O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.
Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.
Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.
Laugh and the world laughs with you!
Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... Without the satisfaction.
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a person dull, boring, and despised.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.