Sleeping In Quotes

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

  Homer

  Inspirational, Good Night, Teenager

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

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Anniversary, Marriage

  Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints (1966)

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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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• 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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• Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Regret, Sleep, Insomnia

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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

  Wilson Mizner

  Time, Sleep, Insomnia

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

  John Ciardi

  Business, Sleep, Insomnia

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

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Sleep, Insomnia, Trying

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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 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: a poor substitute for caffeine!

  Wallace Shawn

  Sleep, Insomnia, Bedtime

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• The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Morning, Sleep, Night

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

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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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