58 Inspirational Quotes About Sleep

In our fast-paced world, sleep often feels like a luxury rather than a necessity. Yet, it remains one of the most vital components of a healthy lifestyle, nourishing our minds and rejuvenating our bodies. Inspirational quotes about sleep have a unique way of reminding us of its importance, encouraging us to embrace rest as a fundamental part of our lives. Whether you're seeking encouragement to establish a better sleep routine or simply want to appreciate the beauty of a peaceful night's rest, this curated collection of 58 quotes offers insights and inspirations to elevate your view on the art of sleeping well. Let these words of wisdom guide you to a more restful and fulfilling slumber journey.

1. “For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the last thing I want to do.” - Chuck Palahniuk

2. “I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.” - Margaret Atwood

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

4. “I'll never wake up in a good mood again.I'm tired of these stinky boots” - Jim Morrison

5. “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. Sleep is death without the responsibility.” - Fran Lebowitz

6. “If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease. . . Men sleep contentedly, assured that they will wake the following morning. They should feel the same about their lives.” - Richard Matheson

7. “Now, sprawled comfortably in his motel bed, Anson Sharp enjoyed the sleep of the amoral, which is far deeper and more restful than the sleep of the just, the righteous, and the innocent.” - Dean Koontz

8. “He slept like an animal, well and lightly, faced in the opposite direction from that of a man; for a man going to sleep is about to escape into it while animals are prepared to escape out of it.” - Theodore Sturgeon

9. “Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into itself until it has recognized I, and therefrom deduced I am, I am now. Here comes next, and is at least negatively reassuring; because here, this morning, is where it has expected to find itself: what’s called at home.” - Christopher Isherwood

10. “One of the Georges - I forget which - once said that a certain number of hours' sleep each night - I cannot recall at the moment how many - made a man something which for the time being has slipped my memory.” - P.G. Wodehouse

11. “I like the posture, but not the yoga. I like the inebriated morning, but not the opium. I like the flower but not the garden, the moment but not the dream. Quiet, my love. Be still. I am sleeping.” - Roman Payne

12. “It's the oasis," said the camel driver."Well, why don't we go there right now?" the boy asked."Because we have to sleep.” - Paulo Coelho

13. “I sleep all day. Noises flit around the house- garbage truck in the alley, rain, tree rapping against the bedroom window. I sleep. I inhabit sleep firmly, willing it, wielding it, pushing away dreams, refusing, refusing. Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion. [...] It is afternoon, it is night, it is morning. Everything is reduced to this bed, this endless slumber that makes the days into one day, makes time stop, stretches and compacts time until it is meaningless.” - Audrey Niffenegger

14. “Why can I never go back to bed? Who's 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

15. “Sleep occupies a third of our life. It is the consolation to the woes of our days or the woe of their pleasures; but I have never found that sleep was a rest. After a swoon of a few minutes a new life begins, freed from conditions of time and space, and doubtless like the life which awaits us after death. Who knows whether there does not exist a link between these two existences, and whether it is not possible for the soul now to bind them together?” - Gerard de Nerval

16. “Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured everyone did. Maybe people are younger when they are asleep.” - S E Hinton

17. “There is no such thing as a good call at 7 AM. It's been my experience that all calls between the hours of 11 PM and 9 AM are disaster calls.” - Janet Evanovich

18. “Being sent to bed is a terrible command to all children, because it means the most public possible humiliation in front of adults, the confession that they bear the stigma of childhood, of being small and having a child's need for sleep.” - Stefan Zweig

19. “I wash with the can of water I set aside the night before, and eat whatever I put next to it. The washing is not strictly necessary but, again, I have always found it a good way to greet the day. You wash after a period of work, after all, and what else is a night of sleep, if not work, or a journey at least? ("The Things He Said")” - Michael Marshall Smith

20. “The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode, existentially and electronically speaking. Bed, its utter inactivity, offers a glimpse of eternity, without the drawback of being dead.” - Lynne Sharon Schwartz

21. “Plans make dreams reality.” - Susan Pace-Koch

22. “...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them.” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

23. “Ich werde stehen und warten.Ich werde müde werden.Ich werde nicht einschlafen.Ich werde sterben.” - Hermann Hesse

24. “One afternoon, disgusted, bravo, you fall asleep.” - Tim Lilburn

25. “She once again thought about how badly she wanted to crawl back beneath the mound of already cooling blankets that covered her bed like an inviting nest.” - Kimberly Derting

26. “... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.” - Dan Simmons

27. “Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.” - Albert Camus

28. “Mmmm… stay.” Her voice was barely audible, as she grazed her lips against mine and her head fell back against the pillow into a deep sleep.” - J.D. Stroube

29. “So I've started wearing sweatpants to bed because I really don't need Santa seeing me in my underwear.” - Jeff Kinney

30. “Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.” - H. Rider Haggard

31. “Though her emotions had not deviated from a jittery frailty she knew that in her own room she could at least attempt sleep and that if she dreamed she might then finally be with Henry.” - Anna Godbersen

32. “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

33. “I really like it when a bad dream doesn't scare you...it inspires you instead'.” - Fwah Storm

34. “Just let me sleep," she grumbled. "Let me sleep, and I'll sign a paper that you're a fucking angel.” - Kim Harrison

35. “I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.” - Sylvia Plath

36. “My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like measured thought.” - Markus Zusak

37. “No real reason for the lack of sleep, it’s a disadvantage of rotating shifts that every so often your body clock just throws up it’s hands in despair and goes to sulk behind the sofa – leaving you suffering insomnia and/or intense fatigue.” - Tom Reynolds

38. “Food," I suggested. "Sleep. That's what I need. To get the hell away from here."Cole frowned at me, as if I'd suggested "ducks" and "yoga".” - Maggie Stiefvater

39. “Anyone who has learned the Quran and holds it lovingly in his heart will 'value his nights when people are asleep, his days when people are given to excess, his grief when people are joyful, his weeping when people laugh, his silence when people chatter and his humility when people are arrogant'. In other words every moment of life will be precious to him, and he should therefore be 'gentle', never harsh nor quarrelsome, 'nor one who makes a clamour in the market nor one who is quick to anger'.” - Ibn Mas'ud

40. “Fer in our dreams we find ourselves. Who we were. Who we are. Who we can become. Sleep. Dream.” - Moira Young

41. “I didn’t mean to snore in your ear, but I wanted to inhale all of what was wrapped up in the comforter with me.” - Darnell Lamont Walker

42. “I used to sleep the sleep of someone who knew she was loved. Now, I didn't.” - Kristen Ashley

43. “Thanks, Pepe. You've put an extra night into my life. I would have spent it just sleeping like an ox, but I've lived it instead. I'm grateful.” - Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

44. “People who are contented and serene sleep well. They fall asleep easily, stay asleep, and wake refreshed. Conversely, people who are anxious, stressed, or depressed do not sleep well, and chronic insomnia is strongly associated with mood disorders. These are clear correlations, but what is cause and what is effect is not clear. Most experts agree that sleep and mood are closely related, that healthy sleep can enhance emotional well-being, while insufficient quantity or quality of sleep can adversely affect it.” - Andrew Weil

45. “Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day.” - John Piper

46. “I used to be free spirited, now I'm just free of sleep. I got a burning passion in my throat. I got a burning passion inside me.” - Tegan Quin

47. “All the kids from daycare are in dreamland.The froggie has made his last leap.Hell no you can't go to the bathroom.You know where you can go?The f**k to sleep.” - Adam Mansbach

48. “You look tired," Rachel told Jason."I wish I could jog and sleep at the same time.""Can't you?" Ferrin asked, joining them at the little cascade. "I always imagined that you could sleep rolling down a mountainside in a barrel.""I probably could today," Jason conceded.” - Brandon Mull

49. “Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life. Bring God to your ordinary life introduce God into your ordinary life. Sleep, eat, love, pray, meditate, but don’t think that you are making or doing something special—and then you will be special.” - Osho

50. “Get sleep....get sharp!!” - kart

51. “Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.” - Virginia Wolfe

52. “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

53. “Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?---"On death” - John Keats

54. “Unless you have a very good reason, never wake up anybody or anything! Let the sleeper sleep in peace.” - Mehmet Murat ildan

55. “Good soul easily sleeps well.” - Toba Beta

56. “The cashier had long since left for home. By now she was probably bustling by an unmade bed that was waiting in her small room like a boat to carry her off to the black lagoons of sleep, into the complicated world of dreams. The person sitting in the box office was only a wraith, an illusory phantom looking with tired, heavily made-up eyes at the empyiness of light, fluttering her lashes thoughtlessly to disperse the golden dust of drowsiness scattered by the elctric bulbs.” - Bruno Schulz

57. “Slow and steady wins the race, only and only if the rabbit, competent, sleeps a while. But, fast and consistency always win it, even if rabbit is awaken.” - Syed Ather

58. “Maintaining one’s health in today’s toxic rich environment requires proper rest, hydration, an abundant intake of nutrients, and regular internal cleansing practices” - Gary Hopkins