Sleepiness Quotes:

The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Sleep, Insomnia, Trying, Not Sleeping, Funny Insomnia

The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.

- E. W. Howe

topic: Sleep, Insomnia, Emotional, Not Sleeping, Funny Insomnia

Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... Without the satisfaction.

- Lynn Johnston

topic: Sleep, Night, Insomnia, Not Sleeping, Funny Sleep

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

- Wilson Mizner

topic: Sleep, Insomnia, Average, Average Person, Funny Insomnia

Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine!

- Wallace Shawn

topic: Sleep, Insomnia, Poor, Caffeine, Funny Insomnia

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

- Plutarch

topic: Dream, Sleep, Insomnia, Lucid Dreaming, Funny Insomnia

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Sleep, Eye, Insomnia, Good Night Sleep, Good Sleep

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

- Jessamyn West

source: Jessamyn West (1986). “Woman Said Yes: Encounters with Life and Death”, Harcourt on Demand

topic: Vegetation, Funny Sleep, Funny Sleeping, Good Night Sleep, Good Sleep

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.

- Ellen Goodman

topic: Insomnia, People, Dawn, Morning Motivational, Going To Sleep

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

- Charlotte Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte (2009). “The Professor: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.32, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Dream, Sleep, Insomnia, Funny Insomnia, Restless Mind

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

- Anthony Burgess

source: Anthony Burgess (1986). “Homage to QWERT YUIOP: essays”, Vintage

topic: Love, Life, Relationship, Laughs And Smiles, Aromatherapy

We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn’t ever feel like talking loud, and it warn’t often that we laughed, only a kind of low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (2010). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: The Only Authoritative Text Based on the Complete, Original Manuscript”, p.78, Univ of California Press

topic: Stars, Night, Drifting Off, Huckleberry, Chuckles

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

- Ogden Nash

topic: Morning, Regret, Night, Going To Sleep, Bundles

Oh, yes! Fill the churches with dirty thoughts! Introduce honesty to the White House! Write letters in dead languages to people you've never met! Paint filthy words on the foreheads of children! Burn your credit cards and wear high heels! Asylum doors stand open! Fill the suburbs with murder and rape! Divine madness! Let there be ecstasy, ecstasy in the streets! Laugh and the world laughs with you!

- Grant Morrison

topic: Honesty, Children, Dirty, Humor And Laughter, Humor Laughter

Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Sleep, Insomnia, Trying, Going To Sleep, Sweet Sleep

It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: The Crack-up 'Sleeping and Walking'

topic: Sleep, Insomnia, Men, Funny Insomnia, Funny Sleeping

How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.

- Dorothy Parker

topic: Beautiful, Sleep, Night, Going To Sleep, Busting

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Time, Wall, Sleep, Good Night Sleep, Sleepiness

A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky - I've thought of all by turns, and still I lie Sleepless.

- William Wordsworth

source: William Wordsworth, Myles Birket Foster, Sir John Gilbert, Robert Eldridge Aris WILLMOTT, Joseph WOLF (Artist.) (1859). “Poems of William Wordsworth. Selected and edited by Robert Aris Willmott ... Illustrated with one hundred designs by Birket Foster, J. Wolf, and John Gilbert, engraved by the brothers Dalziel”, p.208

topic: Lying, Rain, Fall, Sound Of Rain, Sound Sleep

It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out.

- Bill Watterson

topic: Summer, Sleep, Light, Going To Sleep, Good Night Sleep

Consciousness: That annoying time between naps

- Steven Wright

topic: Sleep, Naps, Annoying, Funny Bumper Sticker, Sleep Well

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

- Virginia Woolf

topic: Life, Sleep, Insomnia, Joy Of Life, Funny Sleep

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.

- Gaston Bachelard

topic: Morning, Sleep, Night, Lack Of Sleep, Repose

In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.

- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

topic: Sleep, Insomnia, Thinking, Funny Sleep, Funny Sleeping

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

topic: Happiness, Lying, Sleep, Lack Of Sleep, Stress And Worry

And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.

- D. H. Lawrence

topic: Morning, Flower, Adventure, Funny Insomnia, Funny Sleep

The worst thing in the world is to be bland.

- Ben Huh

source: Source: thebiglead.com

topic: World, Worst, Bland, Funny Insomnia, Funny Sleep

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Good Night, Dream, Art, Dreaming At Night, Good Dream

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

topic: Life, Morning, Sleep, Solved Problems, Morning After

Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.

- Charles Caleb Colton

source: Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

topic: Regret, Sleep, Insomnia, Going To Sleep, Bundles

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

- Edward Lucas

topic: Insomnia, Naps, Alcohol, Can't Sleep, Distillation

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

- Grace Slick

topic: Life, Women, Memorable, Warm, Sleepiness

Sleep 'til you're hungry, eat 'til you're sleepy.

- Niall Horan

topic: Sleep, Hungry, Funny Sleep, Funny Sleeping, Sleepiness

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

topic: Sleep, Depth, Needs, Blackness, Funny Sleep

Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot.Ê It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.

- Miguel de Cervantes

topic: Wise, Kings, Sleep, Funny Insomnia, Funny Sleep

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Sleep, Insomnia, Redemption, Funny Insomnia, Funny Sleep

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

- Clifton Fadiman

source: Clifton Fadiman (1957). “Any Number Can Play”, Cleveland : World Publishing Company

topic: Dream, Sleep, Insomnia, Not Sleeping, Funny Insomnia

Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.

- Edmund Vance Cooke

topic: Fighting, Worry, Bed, Funny Insomnia, Funny Sleeping

Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.

- Miguel de Cervantes

source: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.730, Wordsworth Editions

topic: Sleep, Blessing, Insomnia, Funny Insomnia, Funny Sleep

O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 5

topic: Nature, Sleep, Night, Uneasy, Sound Sleep

Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife, the years from off your life, my friend! the years that death takes off my life, he'll take from off the other end!

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

topic: Sleep, Cutting, Years, Funny Sleep, Funny Sleeping

I picked up one of the books and flipped through it. Don't get me wrong, I like reading. But some books should come with warning labels: Caution: contains characters and plots guaranteed to induce sleepiness. Do not attempt to operate heavy machinery after ingesting more than one chapter. Has been known to cause blindness, seizures and a terminal loathing of literature. Should only be taken under the supervision of a highly trained English teacher. Preferably one who grades on the curve.

- Laurie Halse Anderson

topic: Teacher, Book, Taken, Warning Labels, English Teacher

Narcolepsy is a disorder that affects many different areas of life. So in typical patients with narcolepsy, they have something called "excessive daytime sleepiness." So, they're very sleepy during the day. Yet, at night, they're still sleepy, but their sleep is very broken.

- Shelby Harris

topic: Sleep, Night, Broken, Narcolepsy, Sleepiness

I cannot sleep in your presence In your absence, tears prevent me you watch me my beloved on each sleepiness night and Only you see the difference

- Rumi

topic: Sleep, Night, Differences, Sleepiness, Your Absence

I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks to your love a certain solid fragrence risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body. and: No one can stop the river of your hands, your eyes and their sleepiness, my dearest. You are the trembling of time, which passes between the vertical light and the darkening sky. and: From the stormy archipelagoes I brought my windy accordian, waves of crazy rain, the habitual slowness of natural things: they made up my wild heart.

- Pablo Neruda

topic: Crazy, Rain, Flower, Risen, Darkening

Wakefulness is the only saintliness there is, and sleepiness, unconsciousness, is the only sin there is; all other sins are born out of it. Cut the root, cut the very root! Don't go on pruning the leaves.

- Rajneesh

topic: Cutting, Roots, Pruning, Unconsciousness, Sleepiness

We do not weary of eating and sleeping every day, for hunger and sleepiness recur. Without that we should weary of them. So, without the hunger for spiritual things, we weary of them. Hunger after righteousness--the eighth beatitude.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Faith, Spiritual, Sleep, Sleepiness

I would like to suggest that what my accusers have been pleased to call the peace of the Church is more properly called the sleepiness of the Church and we should be thankful to God that it has been disturbed.

- Lloyd Geering

topic: Being Thankful, Church, Should, Thankful To God, Sleepiness

For my part I love sleepy fellows, and the more ignorant the better. Damn your wide-awake and knowing chaps. As for sleepiness, itis one of the noblest qualities of humanity. There is something sociable about it, too. Think of those sensible & sociable millions of good fellows all taking a good long friendly snooze together, under the sod--no quarrels, no imaginary grievances, no envies, heart-burnings, & thinking how much better that other chap is off--none of this: but all equally free-&-easy, they sleep away & reel off their nine knots an hour, in perfect amity.

- Herman Melville

topic: Death, Sleep, Heart, Wide Awake, Sociable