A day without a nap is like a cupcake without frosting. – Terri Guillemets
There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night. – Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants. – Jessamyn West
Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool. – English Proverb
Bed is the poor mans opera. – Italian Proverb
When to soft Sleep we give ourselves away, And in a dream as in a fairy bark Drift on and on through the enchanted dark To purple daybreak–little thought we pay To that sweet bitter world we know by day. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica. – J. G. Ballard
Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations. – Djuna Barnes
We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers. – Sir Thomas Browne
Nor will the sweetest delight of gardens afford much comfort in sleep; wherein the dullness of that sense shakes hands with delectable odours; and though in the bed of Cleopatra, can hardly with any delight raise up the ghost of a rose. – Sir Thomas Browne
Sleep hath its own world, and a wide realm of wild reality. And dreams in their development have breath, and tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron
The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation. – Angela Carter
Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself. – E. M. Cioran
Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sleeping alone, except under doctors orders, does much harm. Children will tell you how lonely it is sleeping alone. If possible, you should always sleep with someone you love. You both recharge your mutual batteries free of charge. – Marlene Dietrich
I dont wake up for less than $10,000 a day. – Linda Evangelista
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. – Benjamin Franklin
Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind. – William Golding
