150+ Sumptuous Sleep Quotes for Sleepyheads and Insomniacs

The best sleep quotes can help you describe the joy of a good night’s rest, or the struggles of a bad one.

They can educate you on the science and value of sleep.

And they can provide comfort and reassurance when sleep is proving elusive.

In this post, I’ve compiled over 150 quotes about sleeping that, with any luck, will serve whatever purpose you need them for!

My Favourite Sleep Quotes

“Sleep is an investment in the energy you need to be effective tomorrow.” -Tom Roth
“I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.” – Jennifer Niven
“Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” – Benjamin Franklin
“The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.” – E. Joseph Cossman
“Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.” – Thomas Dekker
“No day is so bad it can’t be fixed with a nap.” – Carrie Snow
“Anyone can escape into sleep. We are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher’s the poet’s equal there.” – Emile M. Cioran
“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
“Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.” – Ralph Marston
“Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.” – Heraclitus
“End the day with gratitude. There is someone, somewhere that has less than you.” – Zig Ziglar
“We count it as a certainty that everyone naps in paradise.” – Unknown
“Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.” – Audrey Niffenegger
“When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.” – Louise Erdrich
“Happiness consists of getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.” – Robert A. Heinlein
“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
“Sleep is the single most effective thing we can do to reset our brain and body health each day” – Dr Matthew Walker
“The way to a more productive, more inspired, more joyful life is getting enough sleep.” – Arianna Huffington
“By helping us keep the world in perspective, sleep gives us a chance to refocus on the essence of who we are. And in that place of connection, it is easier for the fears and concerns of the world to drop away.” – Arianna Huffington
“Tired minds don’t plan well. Sleep first, plan later.” – Walter Reisch
“As the night gets dark, let your worries fade. Sleep peacefully knowing you’ve done all you can do for today.” – Roald Dahl
“Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.” – Thomas De Quincey
“Always end the day with a positive thought. No matter how hard things were, tomorrow’s a fresh opportunity to make it better.” – Harry Dean Stanton

Insightful Quotes about sleep

“Sleep is the best meditation” – Dalai Lama
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr Seuss
“Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“The minute anyone’s getting anxious I say, ‘You must eat and you must sleep.’ They’re the two vital elements for a healthy life.” – Francesca Annis
“I wonder why I don’t go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.” – Sylvia Plath
“What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.” – Werner Herzog
“I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep is the consummate protection against the unseemliness that is the invariable consequence of being awake. What you don’t know won’t hurt you.” – Fran Lebowitz
“There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.” – Edward Lucas
“People say, ‘I’m going to sleep now,’ as if it were nothing. But it’s really a bizarre activity. ‘For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I’m going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life.” – George Carlin
“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.” – Homer
“I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything.” – Fernando Pessoa
“The best bed that a man can sleep on is peace.” – Somali proverb
“Many things – such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly– are done worst when we try hardest to do them.” – C.S. Lewis
“For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.” – Steve Jobs
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” – William Shakespeare
“We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.” – Laurie Colwin
“To sleep is an act of faith.” – Barbara G. Harrison
“Sleep deprivation is an illegal torture method outlawed by the Geneva Convention and international courts, but most of us do it to ourselves.” – Ryan Hurd
“All men while they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.” – Plutarch
“One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed.” – Bernard Baruch
“If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit.” – Banksy
“Even where sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.” – Homer
“We sleep, but the loom of life never sleeps and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up tomorrow.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“It’s useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.” – John Cage
“I tend to stay up late, not because I’m partying but because it’s the only time of the day when I’m alone and don’t have to be performing.” – Jim Carrey

Short Quotes on Sleeping

“Your future depends on your dreams, so go to sleep.” – Mesut Barazany
“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?” – Ernest Hemingway
“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.” – Phyllis Diller
“What hath night to do with sleep?” – John Milton
“Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.” – Audrey Niffenegger
“Sleep is God. Go worship.” – Jim Butcher
“Fatigue is the best pillow.” – Benjamin Franklin
“A well-spent day brings happy sleep.” – Leonardo da Vinci
“Sleeping is not time wasting.” – Mike Wilson
“Wake up laughing.” – Swami Beyondananda
“Having peace, happiness and healthiness is my definition of beauty. And you can’t have any of that without sleep.” – Beyonce
“The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can’t get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.” – Edgar Watson Howe
“I’m going to sleep well tonight knowing that I made the right decision.” – George Ryan
“I LOVE TO SLEEP. When I’m rested, I’m at my best.” – Halle Berry
“Sleep helps you win at life.” – Amy Poehler
“I had a dream I was awake, and I woke up to find myself asleep.” – Stan Laurel
“Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it’s hard to go back to sleep.” – Fran Drescher
“Happiness is a nice long nap.” – Peanuts
“He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.” – Benjamin Franklin
“I’m so good at sleeping that I can do it with my eyes closed.” – Unknown
“If you think you’re doing fine on less sleep, you’re probably wrong.” – Dr Christian Jessen
“I want to sleep but my brain won’t stop talking to itself.” – Unknown
“If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for in the morning, sleep late.” – Henny Youngman
“People is a genius when he is dreaming.” – Akira Kurosawa
“Any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime.” – Red Skelton

You Can’t Sleep Quotes

“The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4 am knows all my secrets.” – Poppy Z. Brite
“True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.” – William Penn
“Give yourself up to the beautiful intoxication of the sleep. Let it draw you away from the world of thoughts to the world of beautiful dreams.” – Unknown
“A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.” – Charlotte Brontë
“I’ve always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.” – David Benioff
“You can go to bed without fear; you will lie down and sleep soundly.” – Proverbs 3:24
“Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.” – Alain de Botton
“Let the night take you. Let the stars evaporate into your dreams. Let sleep be the only comfort for you to believe.” – Anthony Liccione
“Don’t fight with the pillow, but lay down your head, and kick every worriment out of the bed.” – Edmund Vance Cooke
“Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.” – Rumi
“If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he’d make a fortune.” – Griff Niblac
“I think insomnia is a sign that a person is interesting.” – Avery Sawyer
“Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.” – Jon Stewart
“Put my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.” – Stephen Chbosky
“Sleep is such a luxury, which it seems I can’t afford.” – Robin Sikarwa
“When you have insomnia, you’re never really asleep, and you’re never really awake.” – Fight Club
“My mind decides to run when normal people sleep.” – Unknown
“Your dreams may seem impossible to someone with insomnia.” – Junnita Jackson
“You are the biggest enemy of your own sleep.” – Pawan Mishra
“The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.” – W. C. Fields
“The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.” – Leonard Cohen
“Insomnia is an indication, not a chaos. It’s like an ache. You’re not going to provide a patient ache medicine without figuring out what’s reasoning the pain.” – Judith Owens
“For insomniacs, night steals the morning.” – Terri Guillemets
“Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.” – David Almond
“Dear mind, please stop thinking so much at night. I need sleep.” – Unknown

Best Sleep Quotes for Kids

“Let’s start by taking a smallish nap or two …” Winnie The Pooh
“Tomorrow is going to be the best day ever!” – Unknown
“A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.” – Irish Proverb
“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” – Victor Hugo
“If you were not to set an alarm clock, would you sleep past it? If the answer is yes, then there is clearly more sleep that is needed.” – Matthew Walker
“Good night, slept tight, awake full of joy at the morning light.” – Theodore Higgingsworth
“Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.” – Margaret Wise Brown
“I wish for you a good night of sleep, sweet dreams, and a smiling morning.” – Debasish Mridha
“Goodnight. Let the stars light the way to where your dreams can be found awaiting your arrival.” – Anthony T. Hincks
“When I say good night to you, I am wishing you a pleasant and restful sleep. Not a night where you have to count sheep. But one that you will wake rested and fine.” – Catherine Pulsifer
“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.” – William Blake

Romantic Sleep Sayings and Quotes

“Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.” – St. Jerome
“The day is over, the night is here, know that I love you today and forever, my dear.” – Catherine Pulsifer
“Good night. May you fall asleep in the arms of a dream so beautiful you’ll cry when you awake.” – Michael Faudet
“At the end of the day, you go to sleep with the people you love, you wake up with the people you love, and you spend your time with the people you love.” – Tyga
“And I start sleeping and dreaming and I think I’ll dream about you all through the night.” – John Mayer
“Your hand touching mine… This is how galaxies collide.” – Sanober Khan
“How strange, to dream of you, even when I am wide awake.” – D.J.”
“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love, and death.” – E. M. Forster
“Life is a sleep, love is a dream, and you have lived if you have loved.” – Alfred de Musset
“Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I’m around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.” – Ellen DeGeneres
“I love you, in that place between coffee and sleep.” – Atticus
“I walked with you, once upon a dream.” – Anne Rice and Charles Perrault
“Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince; And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. ” – William Shakespeare
“Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with them.” – Christopher Pike

Funny Sleep Quotes

“Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.” – Edgar Allan Poe
“I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything till noon. That’s when it’s time for my nap.” – Bob Hope
“The best thing to do first thing in the morning is to go right back to sleep.” – Unknown
“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.” – Anthony Burgess
“Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep” – Albert Camus
“Don’t give up on your dreams. Keep sleeping” – Unknown
“She used to say she could taste sleep and that it was as delicious as a BLT on fresh French bread.” – Rebecca Wells
“People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.” – Leo J. Burke
“There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.” – Mindy Kaling
“The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.” – Wilson Mizener
“A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything.” – Irish Proverb
“Without enough sleep, we all become tall two-year-olds.” – Jojo Jensen
“Never waste any time you can spend sleeping.” – Frank H. Knight
“A day without a nap is like a cupcake without frosting.” – Terri Guillemets
“Go to bed you’ll feel better tomorrow” is the human version of “Did you try turning it off and on again?” – Unknown
“There’s a reason they call it ‘beauty sleep.’ Getting 7 to 9 hours of sleep a night can actually improve your appearance.” – Lauren Conrad
“Sleep ’til you’re hungry, eat ’til you’re sleepy.” – Niall Horan
“When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.” – Tom Hodgkinson
“Reading and naps, two of life’s greatest pleasures, go especially well together.” – Will Schwalbe
“Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.” – Gillian Flynn
“No wonder Sleeping Beauty looked so good…she took long naps, never got old, and didn’t have to do anything but snore to get her Prince Charming.” – Olive Green
“They call it the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.” – George Carlin
“Happiness is waking up, looking at the clock and finding that you still have two hours left to sleep.” -Charles M. Schulz
“Those who snore always fall asleep first.” – Unknown
“I love to sleep. Do you? Isn’t it great? It really is the best of both worlds. You get to be alive and unconscious.” – Rita Rudner
“I’m trying to read a book on how to relax, but I keep falling asleep.” – Jim Loy

Use These Sleep Quotes as Your Lullaby

Some sleep quotes make you smile. Others help you describe the joy of entering the land of nod. And a few provide comfort when you’re struggling with insomnia.

Whatever you wanted them for, I hope you found at least one or two quotes about sleep that resonated!

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