[S]leep, and enough of it, is the prime necessity. Enough exercise, and good food and enough, are other necessities. But sleep—good sleep, and enough of it—this is a necessity without which you cannot have the exercise of use, nor the food. – Edward Everett Hale, “How to Get the Best of It,” c.1892
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled. – Edward Lucas
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. – Charles Caleb Colton
Somnus lets her poppies fall most plentifully on those having a cool head, an empty stomach, tired muscles, a quiet conscience, and warm feet. – Author unknown, quoted by Rachel Brooks Gleason, “Sleep,” 1867
Life is too short to sleep on low thread-count sheets. – Leah Stussy
Sleep… Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death. – Author unknown, various wordings commonly attributed to Henry Wadsworth Longfell
May sleep envelop you as a bed sheet floating gently down, tickling your skin and removing every worry. Reminding you to consider only this moment. – Jeb Dickerson, jebdickerson.com
Consciousness: that annoying time between naps. – Author Unknown
Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking. – Clifton Fadiman
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
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
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. – Charlotte Brontë
[S]leep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. – Thomas Dekker
Without enough sleep, we all become tall two-year-olds. – JoJo Jensen, Dirt Farmer Wisdom, 2002
Judith slept far into the morning the sound, deep sleep of exhaustion; that sleep of the heavy-hearted from which, almost by an effort of will, the dreams are banished. – Amy Levy (1861–1889), Reuben Sachs: A Sketch, 1888
The best cure for insomnia is a Monday morning. – Author Unknown
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge. – Colette
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes I sit up late with my thoughts, reluctant to fall asleep and leave my thoughts alone by themselves. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
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
