Sleeping In Quotes

• There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

  Homer

  Inspirational, Good Night, Teenager

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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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• Laugh and the world laughs with you!

  Grant Morrison

  Laughter, Sleep, Insomnia

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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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• Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Wise, Money

  Benjamin Franklin (1821). “Essays and Letters”, p.80

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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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• Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Anniversary, Marriage

  Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints (1966)

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• One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

  Virginia Woolf

  Love, Food, Sleep

  1929 A Room of One's Own, ch.1.

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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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• Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Death, Sleep, Littles

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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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• 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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  There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.

  Mindy Kaling

  Funny, Beautiful, Sleep

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.5, Three Rivers Press

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• Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine!

  Wallace Shawn

  Sleep, Insomnia, Bedtime

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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

  Happiness, Lying, Sleep

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• Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Death

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• The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Sleep, Insomnia, Soul

  "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

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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

  Sleep, Insomnia, Redemption

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... Without the satisfaction.

  Lynn Johnston

  Sleep, Night, Insomnia

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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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• Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.

  John Ciardi

  Business, Sleep, Insomnia

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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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• Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.

  Ellen Goodman

  Good Morning, Sleep, Insomnia

  Ellen Goodman (1986). “Close to Home”, Fawcett Books

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• The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Sleep, Insomnia, Trying

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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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