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Unknown Author (top)
There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.
- Unknown Author
There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock.
- Unknown Author
Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.
- Unknown Author
I'm not asleep... but that doesn't mean I'm awake.
- Unknown Author
Nothing cures insomnia like the realization that it's time to get up.
- Unknown Author
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
- Unknown Author


Ambrose Bierce (top)
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
- Ambrose Bierce


Charlotte Brontė (top)
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
- Charlotte Brontė


Leo J. Burke (top)
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.
- Leo J. Burke


Dale Carnegie (top)
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.
- Dale Carnegie


Miguel de Cervantes (top)
Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep! 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. 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.
- Miguel de Cervantes


Colette (top)
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
- Colette


Charles Caleb Colton (top)
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.
- Charles Caleb Colton


Thomas Dekker (top)
Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
- Thomas Dekker


Ralph Waldo Emerson (top)
Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


Clifton Fadiman (top)
Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
- Clifton Fadiman


F. Scott Fitzgerald (top)
The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald


Benjamin Franklin (top)
Fatigue is the best pillow.
- Benjamin Franklin


Ellen Goodman (top)
Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
- Ellen Goodman


Fran Lebowitz (top)
Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
- Fran Lebowitz


Anne Morrow Lindbergh (top)
For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh


Vladimir Nabokov (top)
Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals.
- Vladimir Nabokov


Griff Niblack (top)
If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he'd make a fortune.
- Griff Niblack


Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (top)
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


Dorothy Parker (top)
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.
- Dorothy Parker


Plutarch (top)
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
- Plutarch


Irish Proverb (top)
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.
- Irish Proverb


Arthur Schopenhauer (top)
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
- Arthur Schopenhauer


Carrie Snow (top)
No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap.
- Carrie Snow


John Steinbeck (top)
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.
- John Steinbeck