190 Sleep Quotes to Inspire Sweet Dreams

There are many great quotes on sleep. Some are funny, some informative and others inspirational. From making fun of the lack of sleep to inspiring words on the importance of getting a good night’s sleep Here are our top quotes that will assist you in getting the best sleep.

Nothing’s better than a peaceful night’s rest. If you’re in need of a reason to lay down and put your feet on the floor — regardless of whether it’s your normal bedtime or just for an afternoon nap, these adorable quotes and quips from your favorite authors, stars and thinkers provide you with the right information.

Some Quotes for When You Can’t Sleep

“The best thing to do first thing in the morning is to go right back to sleep.” – Unknown

“Don’t give up on your dreams. Keep sleeping.” – Unknown

“The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

“Sleep is the best meditation.” – Dalai Lama

“Don’t fight with the pillow, but lay down your head, and kick every worriment out of the bed.” – Elie Wiesel, Night

“I want to sleep but my brain won’t stop talking to itself.” – Anonymous

” Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.” – Charles M. Schulz

“Legend says that when you can’t sleep, it’s because you’re awake in someone’s dream. So if everyone could stop dreaming about me, that would be great.” – Anonymous

“There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.” – Mindy Kaling

“Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.” – Franz Kafka, Supreme Secrets of Success

“”Go to bed you’ll feel better tomorrow” is the human version of “Did you try turning it off and on again?” – Unknown

“The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.” – Leonard Cohen, Canadian Singer-Songwriter

“A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything.” – Irish Proverb

“Also, I could finally sleep. And this was the real gift, because when you cannot sleep, you cannot get yourself out of the ditch-there’s not a chance.” – Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped.” – Kim Stanley Robinson, Icehenge

“Me: Please let me sleep! Brain: Nope, we have to stay up together and go over every bad life decision we have made so far.” – Anonymous

“Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.” – Alain de Botton, British-Swiss Philosopher

“Some people can’t sleep because they have insomnia. I can’t sleep because I have internet.” – Anonymous

“Without enough sleep, we all become tall two-year-olds.” – JoJo Jensen, Dirt Farmer Wisdom

“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

“If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he’d make a fortune.” – Griff Niblack, Author

“Me: We need to fall asleep. Brain: No, let’s stay awake and think about every decision we made today.” – Anonymous

“Why can I never go back to bed? Whose is the voice ringing in my head? Where is the sense in these desperate dreams? Why should I wake when I’m half past dead?” – Emilie Autumn, American Singer-Songwriter

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

“When I’m at work I can fall asleep instantly, but when I’m in my bed I can hardly fall asleep.” – Anonymous

“If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.” – Dale Carnegie, American Writer

“Who said nights were for sleep?” – Marilyn Monroe, American Actress

“A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.” – Charlotte Brontë, English Novelist and Poet

“I tried counting sheep so I can fall asleep but that got boring, so I started talking to the shepherd instead.” – Anonymous

“The only time I have problems is when I sleep.” – Tupac Shakur, American Rapper

“Many things – such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly – are done worst when we try hardest to do them.” – C. S. Lewis, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature

Best Funny Sleep Quotes

“I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at four in the afternoon, I’d be a college graduate today.” – George Foreman, Former Professional Boxer

“I don’t need a hairstylist, my pillow gives me a new hairstyle every morning.” – Unknown

“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.” – Anthony Burgess, Inside Mr. Enderby

“Man is a genius when he is dreaming.” – Akira Kurosawa

“I’ve always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.” – David Benioff

“She used to say she could taste sleep and that it was as delicious as a BLT on fresh French bread.” – Rebecca Wells

“I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything till noon. That’s when it’s time for my nap.” – Bob Hope, British-American Comedian

“You miss 100% of the naps you don’t take.” – Unknown

“I already want to take a nap tomorrow.” – Anonymous

“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.” – Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller’s Housekeeping Hints

“I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.” – Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

“If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.” – Henny Youngman, English-American Comedian

“When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.” – Tom Hodgkinson, British Writer

“I’m so good at sleeping that I can do it with my eyes closed.” – Anonymous

“Early to rise, early to bed, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.” – James Thurber, American Cartoonist

“No wonder Sleeping Beauty looked so good…she took long naps, never got old, and didn’t have to do anything but snore to get her Prince Charming.” – Olive Green, Author

“Dear sleep, I’m sorry we broke up this morning. I want you back!” – Anonymous

“I love to sleep. Do you? Isn’t it great? It really is the best of both worlds. You get to be alive and unconscious.” – Rita Rudner, American Comedian

“Your eyes water when you yawn because you miss your bed and it makes you sad.” – Anonymous

“My mother told me to follow my dreams, so I took a nap.” – Unknown

“Happiness is waking up, looking at the clock and finding that you still have two hours left to sleep.” – Charles M. Schulz, American Cartoonist

“No civilized person goes to bed the same day he gets up.” – Richard Harding Davis, American Journalist

“I always say ‘morning’ instead of ‘good morning,’ because if it was a good morning, I’d still be asleep.” – Anonymous

“Don’t give up on your dreams so soon, sleep longer.” – Anonymous

“A day without a nap is like a cupcake without frosting.” – Terri Guillemets, Quotation Anthologist

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?” – Ernest Hemingway, American Author

“Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.” – Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“No day is so bad it can’t be fixed with a nap.” – Carrie Snow, American Stand-Up Comic

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?” – Ernest Hemingway

“Never waste any time you can spend sleeping.” – Frank H. Knight

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

“If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for in the morning, sleep late.” – Henny Youngman

“Nothing cures insomnia like the realization that it’s time to get up.” – Anonymous

“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.” – Homer

“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

“There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock.” – Anonymous

“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.” – Phyllis Diller

“Happiness is waking up, looking at the clock, and finding that you still have two hours left to sleep.” – Charles M. Schulz

“People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.” – Leo J. Burke

“I finally got eight hours of sleep. It took me three days but whatever.” – Unknown

“Never waste any time you can spend sleeping.” – Frank H. Knight

Inspirational Sleep Quotes

“Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” – Benjamin Franklin

“A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.” – Irish Proverb

“Sleep is the single most effective thing we can do to reset our brain and body health each day” – Dr Matthew Walker

“Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.” – H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure

“Sleep is God. Go worship.” – Jim Butcher, Death Masks

“Eat healthily, sleep well, breathe deeply, move harmoniously.” – Jean-Pierre Barral

“Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.” – David Almond, My Name Is Mina

“The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.” – E. Joseph Cossman

“The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.” – Haruki Murakami

“Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer.” – Maya Angelou

“This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away.” – J. R. R. Tolkien

“The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.” – E. Joseph Cossman

“The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.” – Shannon L. Adler

“Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking, loving, and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning.” – Elie Wiesel

“Night is the wonderful opportunity to take rest, to forgive, to smile, to get ready for all the battles that you have to fight tomorrow.” – Allen Ginsberg

“The night is longer than a day for those who dream, and day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.” – Jack Kerouac

“Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, everything will get better and sun will shine brighter than ever.” – Ernest Hemingway

“I like the night. Without the dark, we’d never see the stars.” – Stephanie Meyer

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.” – Charles M. Schulz

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on.” – William Shakespeare

“There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.” – Edward Lucas

“Having peace, happiness and healthiness is my definition of beauty. And you can’t have any of that without sleep.” – Beyonce

“Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel.” – Francesca Annis

“If I have a bad game, I think about what I have to do to return to form. Figure it out, go to sleep, and wake up a new man.” – Matt Kemp

“I’m going to sleep well tonight knowing that I made the right decision.” – George Ryan

“Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.” – David Almond

“I LOVE TO SLEEP. When I’m rested, I’m at my best.” – Halle Berry

“Sleep has become profoundly important. I didn’t understand the value of it.” – Jamie Oliver

“People spend money on beauty potions, but a good night’s rest makes all the difference.” – Christina Aguilera

“Tired minds don’t plan well. Sleep first, plan later.” – Walter Reisch

Romantic Sleep Quotes

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss

“I make love with a focus and intensity that most people reserve for sleep.” – Dark Jar Tin Zoo

“Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other, knits the sleep, so that it takes the body and soul completely in its healing.” – D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers

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

“How strange, to dream of you, even when I am wide awake.” – D.J.

“And I start sleeping and dreaming and I think I’ll dream about you all through the night.” – John Mayer

“Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.” – Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife

“I love you, in that place between coffee and sleep.” – Atticus, The Dark Between Stars

“I walked with you, once upon a dream.” – Anne Rice and Charles Perrault, Sleeping Beauty

“Goodnight – may you fall asleep in the arms of a dream, so beautiful, you’ll cry when you awake.” – Michael Faudet, Author

“Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with them.” – Christopher Pike, Author

“Good night, sleep tight. Now the sun turns out his light. Good night, sleep tight, dream sweet dreams for me, dream sweet dreams for you.” – The Beatles, Rock Band

“A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you’re fast asleep.” – Song written and composed by Mack David, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston for the Walt Disney film Cinderella (1950).

“Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince; And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. ” – William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.” – Bill Walton

“I like to embrace natural beauty. I try to get at least 8 hours of sleep, drinking a lot of water and exercising.” – Tia Mowry

Nothing makes you feel better than when you get into a hotel bed, and the sheets feel so good. Why shouldn’t you wake up like that every day? Spend money on your mattress and bedding because these things make a difference on your sleep and, ultimately, your happiness.” – Bobby Berk

“Fatigue is the best pillow.” – Benjamin Franklin

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

“Sleep, 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

“Sleep deprivation is an illegal torture method outlawed by the Geneva Convention and international courts, but most of us do it to ourselves.” – Ryan Hurd

“Oh bed! Oh bed! Delicious bed: That heaven upon earth to the weary head.” – Thomas Hood

“Don’t fight with the pillow, but lay down your head, and kick every worriment out of the bed.” – Edmund Vance Cooke

“Oh, sleep, oh gentle sleep, nature’s soft nurse! How have I frighted thee, that thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, and steep my sense in forgetfulness?” – William Shakespeare

“A good night’s sleep is always the best way to wake up and go to work.” – Chanel Iman

“Come, then, I woo thee, sacred sleep! Vain troubles of the world, farewell!” – George Crabbe

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

“Even thus last night, and two nights more I lay, and could not win thee, sleep, by any stealth. So do not let me wear tonight away. Without thee what is all the morning’s wealth? Come, blessed barrier between day and day, dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!” – William Wordsworth

“The reasons we can’t sleep at night are usually the same reasons we don’t truly live during the day.” – Michael Xavier

“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep…” – Thomas Aquinas

“For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“A day without a nap is like a cupcake without frosting.” – Terri Guillemets

“The way to a more productive, more inspired, more joyful life is getting enough sleep.” – Arianna Huffington

Beautiful Sleep Quotes

“Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.” – Thomas Dekker, American Actor

“I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything.” – Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese Poet

“Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings each day.” – Mason Cooley, American Aphorist

“There is renewal in rest.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

 

“I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep is the consummate protection against the unseemliness that is the invariable consequence of being awake. What you don’t know won’t hurt you.” – Fran Lebowitz

“Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.” – William Charles Dement, American Author

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on.” – William Shakespeare, English Poet

“When you lie down, you will not be afraid. Your sleep will be sweet.” – Proverbs 3:24

“Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.” – Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch Philosopher

“When you wake up with a song stuck in your head, it means an angel sang you to sleep.” – Denise Baer, Author

“In dreams we enter a world that’s entirely our own. Let them swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban

Thought Provoking Sleep Quotes

“What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.” – Werner Herzog

“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.” – Lord George Gordon Byron

“Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.” – Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“When I’m alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.” – Zsa Zsa Gabor

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

“At the end of the day, you go to sleep with the people you love, you wake up with the people you love, and you spend your time with the people you love.” – Tyga

“In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.” – Hippocrates, The Aphorisms of Hippocrates

“If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight

“I had a dream I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.” – Stan Laurel

“Sleep’s what we need. It produces an emptiness in us into which sooner or later energies flow.” – John Cage, M: Writings ’67-’72

“And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have already slept so much and are preparing to sleep for all eternity.” – Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

Poetic sleep quotes

“O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, that thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, and steep my senses in forgetfulness?.” – William Shakespeare

“A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.” – Charlotte Brontë

“She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.” – Lois Lowry

“Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it’s hard to go back to sleep.” – Fran Drescher

“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” – Victor Hugo

“Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I’m reborn.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“The minute anyone’s getting anxious I say, ‘You must eat and you must sleep.’ They’re the two vital elements for a healthy life.” – Francesca Annis

“A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.” – Irish proverb

“Then, I turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.” – Stephen Chbosky

“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

“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.” – Arthur Schopenhauer

“The reasons we can’t sleep at night are usually the same reasons we don’t truly live during the day.” – Michael Xavier

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” – William Shakespeare

“He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.” – Benjamin Franklin

“We rose up betimes, for sleep weighs lightly on the hopeful as well as on the anxious.” – Johann D. Wyss

“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads, to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.” – Bram Stoker

“I had a dream I was awake, and I woke up to find myself asleep.” – Stan Laurel

“In an era when Fear of Missing Out has its own universally understood acronym, recuperative rest and relaxation are not always regarded as the intensely worthwhile pursuits that they are. Instead, we are harassed into believing that we must be constantly available to be of value, that peak productivity and performance are directly related to presenteeism, and that to snooze is to lose. This couldn’t be more wrong.” – Michelle Ogundehin

“True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.” – William Penn

Short Good Night Quotes

“Love you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.” – Elaine Davis

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.” – Sarah Williams

“Listen to the night sky; the mockingbird always sings you my lullaby.” – Jmemo

“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.” – William Shakespeare

“The night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.” – Vincent van Gogh

“It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.” – Stephen King

“Good night, and good luck.” – Edward R. Murrow

“Goodnight, goodnight, goodnight, What more is there to say than goodnight? – Jimmy Durante

Conclusion

Nothing is quite as peaceful as a night of restful sleep. To help you create that perfect experience, get into your comfy sleepwear and cuddle with your loved ones. Cozy up under the sheets and enjoy our handpicked collection of the top 190 sleep quotes specially curated for you and your dear ones.