The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.
The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn’t ever feel like talking loud, and it warn’t often that we laughed, only a kind of low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine!
Sleep 'til you're hungry, eat 'til you're sleepy.
Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
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.
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.
Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... Without the satisfaction.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
Laugh and the world laughs with you!
Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.
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.
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.
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.
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.
For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
The worst thing in the world is to be bland.
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse.
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