Sleep Quotations
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| 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 | |||
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| Dawn: When men of reason go to bed. | |||
| - Ambrose Bierce | |||
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| A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. | |||
| - Charlotte Brontė | |||
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| People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. | |||
| - Leo J. Burke | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge. | |||
| - Colette | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. | |||
| - Thomas Dekker | |||
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| Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree. | |||
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson | |||
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| Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking. | |||
| - Clifton Fadiman | |||
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| The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to. | |||
| - F. Scott Fitzgerald | |||
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| Fatigue is the best pillow. | |||
| - Benjamin Franklin | |||
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| Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up. | |||
| - Ellen Goodman | |||
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| Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep. | |||
| - Fran Lebowitz | |||
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| For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one. | |||
| - Anne Morrow Lindbergh | |||
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| Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. | |||
| - Vladimir Nabokov | |||
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| If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he'd make a fortune. | |||
| - Griff Niblack | |||
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| Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. | |||
| - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book. | |||
| - Irish Proverb | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap. | |||
| - Carrie Snow | |||
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| 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 | |||