At Savvy Rest, we’re all about healthy sleep. We also love some good quotes (check out our Instagram for more–we post them regularly).
Here are over 50 quotes about sleep that you can post on your social media, reference in a blog, or just keep on hand for future use. We’ve bolded our favorites.
Romantic Sleep Quotes
1. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss
2. “When you are old and grey and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.” -William Butler Yeats
3. “Good night. May you fall asleep in the arms of a dream so beautiful you’ll cry when you awake.” -Michael Faudet
4. “I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night.” -Film: When Harry Met Sally
5. “I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” -John Green, The Fault in our Stars
6. “My night has become a sunny dawn because of you.” -Ibn Abbad
7. “I can’t close my eyes without you in my dreams.” -Luke Bryan
8. “I have late-night conversations with the moon. He tells me about the sun; I tell him about you.” -S.L. Gray
Funny Sleep Quotes
9. “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?” -Ernest Hemingway
10. “I love sleep because it’s like a time machine to breakfast.” -Oliver Young
11. “People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.” -Leo J. Burke
12. “I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4 in the afternoon, I’d be a college graduate today.” -George Forman
13. “Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!” -Martin Luther
14. “There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.” -Mindy Kaling
15. “I’m trying to read a book on how to relax but I keep falling asleep.” -Jim Loy
16. “Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.” -Albert Camus
17. “Happiness is waking up, looking at the clock and finding that you still have two hours left to sleep.” -Charles M. Schulz
18. “Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.” -Gillian Flynn
19. “I usually take a two-hour nap from 1 to 4.” -Yogi Berra
Peaceful Sleep Quotes
20. “Day is over, night has come. Today is gone, what’s done is done. Embrace your dreams through the night. Tomorrow comes with a whole new light.” -Geroge Orwell
21. “As the night gets dark, let your worries fade. Sleep peacefully knowing you’ve done all you can do for the day.” -Roald Dahl
22. “May you dream of lovely things and wake to find them real.” -J.J. Heller
23. “Sleep is the best meditation.” -Dalai Lama
24. “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” -Victor Hugo
25. “Sleeping gave me time off from myself — a delicious sort of respite. Without it I grow overfamiliar, sticky with self-contempt.” -Julia Armfield, Salt Slow
26. “I love that moment, when you stop struggling to stay awake and your eyelids shut, sink down, and you slip effortlessly into another realm that’s beckoning to you.” -Rachel Klein, The Moth Diaries
27. “We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” -William Shakespeare, The Tempest
28. “I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night,” -Sarah Williams
29. “Night is a world lit by itself.” -Antonio Porchia
Wise Sleep Quotes
30. “Even a soul submerged in sleep
is hard at work and helps
make something of the world.”
-Heraclitus
31. “A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.” -Irish Proverb
32. “The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.” -E.M. Forester
33. “Good night, and good luck.” -Edward R. Murrow
34. “A well-spent day brings happy sleep.” -Leonardo da Vinci
35. “The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.” -E. Joseph Cossman
36. “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
37. “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
38. “I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped. Life is in short cycles or periods; we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies. A man… sinks into deep sleep and wakes with renewed youth, with hope, courage, fertile in resources, and keen for daring adventure.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
39. “Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.” -Thomas Dekker
40. “Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.” -Francis Bacon
41. “My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.” -Marlo Thomas
42. “There is a time for many words, and there is a time for sleep.” -Homer
43. “It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.” -Stephen King
44. “Life always offers you a second chance. It’s called tomorrow.” -Dylan Thomas
45. “The future belongs to those who believe in the future of their dreams.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
Can’t Sleep Quotes
46. “A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.” -Charlotte Brönte
47. “I think insomnia is a sign that a person is interesting.” -Avery Sawyer
48. “This is always the worst time of night for me. Too late for yesterday, too early for tomorrow.” -Film: Insomnia
49. “Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.” -Franz Kafka
50. “When I’m at work I can fall asleep instantly, but when I’m in my bed I can hardly fall asleep.” -Anonymous
51. “And at 3am you sit near the window and wonder if there is magic… because all you need are some fairies to take your pain away and help you sleep… you take a book to read… you take a pen and a paper to write…you cling on some music that might just make you fall asleep… yet nothing helps… another sleepless night and all you want is the dawn to break soon…” -Sanhita Baruah
52. “Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.” -Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea