Quotes about sleep

To sleep in peace, and resume a nightmare when one wakes, is a highly undesirable reversal of the natural order.

Sleep is like a cat: it only comes to you if you ignore it.

Kylar woke two hours before dawn and briefly wondered if death would be too high a price to pay for a full night’s sleep.

Too late, I realized how I had trapped myself. I had let sleep in as a guest, and death had slipped through the door.

To break free from this vexatious and awful never-ending cycle, this flood of outrageous thoughts, and to long for nothing more than simply to sleep--how clean, how pure, the mere thought of it is exhilarating.

A warrior who cannot sleep soon has no strength to fight.

“Sleep is good,” he said. “And books are better.”

Sleep, when one has no worries, tastes like honey.

Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing,

Beloved from pole to pole.

A little sleep and then a little wakefulness. Then a slipping to some soothing place in between.

After experiencing profound emotions, one sleeps profoundly.

Sleep slunk up like a black panther and sank its kindly fangs into what remained of the Mortdecai brain.