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…rousing himself from a reverie, which had degenerated into an absolute snooze. – Thomas Ingoldsby, “The Spectre of Tappington,” 1837

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fatigue is the best pillow. – Benjamin Franklin

In bed, I can go for hours. Oh yes, I love naps. – Jarod Kintz, Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. – Vladimir Nabokov

I count it as a certainty that in paradise, everyone naps. – Tom Hodgkinson

A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness. – Marcel Proust

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life. – Virginia Woolf

Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night… without the satisfaction. – Lynn Johnston

What hath night to do with sleep? – John Milton

Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine. – Author Unknown

The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more. – Wilson Mizner

There is a drowsy state, between sleeping and waking, when you dream more in five minutes with your eyes half open, and yourself half conscious of everything that is passing around you, than you would in five nights with your eyes fast closed and your senses wrapt in perfect unconsciousness. – Charles Dickens

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Do not go back to sleep. – Rumi

It seemed almost impossible for him to rouse himself out of the delicious depths of his first sleep. – Rev. G. Despard, M.A., Trinity Church, Kilburn, “Peace in the Heart,” in The Sun

Many things — such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly — are done worst when we try hardest to do them. – C.S. Lewis

Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night. – George Allen

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world. – Leonard Cohen

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. – Anthony Burgess

Heartbreak is not lessened by the day. Nor is sorrow diminished when washed by night. Sleep will not visit the incomplete soul. – My FGR friend for life, Tim Irwin, 2013