Sleep Quotes

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
Quentin Crisp

Succeed, State, Seem

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
Amelia Barr

Fear, Place, Themselves

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.
Brooke Foss Westcott

Great, Men, Crisis

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
William Wycherley

Death, Revenge, Jealous

Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. 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

Love, Freedom, Gay

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France

Equality, Law, Rich

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Good, Hard, Black

I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.
Joel Rosenberg

Women, Men, Simple

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

Life, Joy, Deplorable

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
St. Jerome

Marriage, Good, Alone

We have two dogs, Mabel and Wolf, and three cats at home, Charlie, George and Chairman. We have two cats on our farm, Tom and Little Sister, two horses, and two mini horses, Hannah and Tricky. We also have two cows, Holy and Madonna. And those are only the animals we let sleep in our bed.
Ellen DeGeneres

Home, Two, Holy

Sometimes I'm so tired, I look down at what I'm wearing, and if it's comfortable enough to sleep in, I don't even make it into my pajamas. I'm looking down, and I'm like, 'T-shirt and stretchy pants? Yup, that's fine. It's pajama-y, good night.'
Rebecca Romijn

Good, Tired, Night

Time, motion and wine cause sleep.
Ovid

Time, Wine, Cause

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
Le Corbusier

Men, Light, Place

When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.
Mason Cooley

Success, Good, Ask

At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.
Mehmet Oz

Work, Health, Emotional

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
Baltasar Gracian

Lie, Awake, Afterwards

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
William Hazlitt

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
Herman Melville

Christian, Sober, Drunken

I know that every time I list something that I am, I am potentially alienating a whole group of people. Publicists and managers will encourage you not to say what political party you belong to, what you eat, what you don't eat, who you sleep with and all that stuff.
Ellen DeGeneres

Time, Political, Whole

Childhood is the sleep of reason.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Reason, Childhood

I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.
Geronimo

Good, Bad, Feeling

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo DaVinci

Life, Death, Happy

Your body tells you what it needs, and if you sleep past your alarm on a Saturday morning, it's probably because you need the sleep.
Sophia Bush

Morning, Past, Body

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
James Thurber

Fear, Matter, Darkness

To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.
Barbara Cartland

Beautiful, Woman, Wrong

Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'.
Joan Rivers

Respect, Tell, Easy

I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.
Imelda Marcos

Mother, Humanity, Earth

The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.
Hedy Lamarr

Success, True, Actor

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
Charles Baudelaire

Evening, Prayer, Says

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