Funny Sleeping Quotes

• Sleep 'til you're hungry, eat 'til you're sleepy.

  Niall Horan

  Sleep, Hungry, Funny Sleep

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• The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.

  Wilson Mizner

  Time, Sleep, Insomnia

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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

  Life, Good Morning, Adversity

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.180, Penguin

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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

  Sleep, Depth, Needs

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1963). “NORTH TO THE ORIENT”

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• Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sleep, Insomnia, Trying

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature”, p.137, Cambridge University Press

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• 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.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Peace, Morning, Flower

  "Shadows" l. 1 (1932)

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• Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

  William Blake

  Good Morning, Happiness, Sleep

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.167, Routledge

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• Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

  Anthony Burgess

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Anthony Burgess (1986). “Homage to QWERT YUIOP: essays”, Vintage

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• I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Life, Inspiring

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  Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

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• Laugh and the world laughs with you!

  Grant Morrison

  Laughter, Sleep, Insomnia

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• Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Good Night, Dream, Art

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.92, Penguin

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• O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.

  Thomas Hood

  Sleep, Insomnia, Heaven

  Thomas Hood (1860). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood”, p.229

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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

  Dream, Sleep, Insomnia

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch. "Of Superstition",

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• Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Morning, Sleep, Insomnia

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.49, University of Georgia Press

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• The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.

  E. W. Howe

  Sleep, Insomnia, Emotional

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• O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Insomnia, Nurse

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 5

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• A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Dream, Sleep, Insomnia

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “The Professor: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.32, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.

  Edmund Vance Cooke

  Sleep, Fighting, Insomnia

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• Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

  Albert Camus

  Sleep, Insomnia, People

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• Consciousness: That annoying time between naps

  Steven Wright

  Sleep, Naps, Annoying

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• There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

  Edward Lucas

  Sleep, Insomnia, Naps

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• Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

  Jessamyn West

  Sleep, Insomnia, Desert

  Jessamyn West (1986). “Woman Said Yes: Encounters with Life and Death”, Harcourt on Demand

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• The worst thing in the world is to be bland.

  Ben Huh

  Sleep, Insomnia, World

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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.

  Ogden Nash

  Morning, Regret, Sleep

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