🎵 Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are... 🎵 How many of you heard this rhyme before hitting the hay when you were little? Those were the good times when napping and catching z's in the middle of the day was seen as praiseworthy and not just lazy. In this fast-paced modern lifestyle we live in today, the rich are those who can afford a full night's sleep. That's a wealth many of us give too little significance to. To appreciate the value of good rest, we have accumulated the most impactful sleeping quotes, dream quotes, rest quotes, or call them whatever you wish quotes that highlight how big of a role sleep actually plays in our lives.
On average, a person spends 33 years of their life in bed - 26 years sleeping and 7 years trying to fall asleep. Crazy, isn't it? One might think that the time we're asleep is wasted and lost. In some ways, yes. However, it is the time necessary for the body to recover and prepare to function for the remaining years that we are lucky to live through. We, youngsters, like to say that there will be plenty of sleeping in the grave. However, there's no better way to go about your day than after getting that whole night of zzzs. And the older we get, the more we appreciate the value of a good slumber. Heck, bedtime is so vital that people are making sleep quotes about it.
Sleep is such a prominent feature of our lives that it's easy to forget how utterly weird it really is. Although many studies and research have been done, it's still hard to comprehend the actual science of sleep. Our bodies just go into shutdown mode, and when the morning comes (or perhaps lunch time for the night owls), someone turns on the power switch, and we can function as we usually do. A bizarre phenomenon that is essentially a different experience for everyone. And that's quite ironic, considering that we participate in it subconsciously.
To express that odd, however unique experience to everyone, numerous people, including celebrities, authors, poets, and comedians, have said or written down quotes about sleeping. And while sleep may not be the answer to all your problems, sometimes the solution is much clearer after you sleep on it. Forget counting the sheep and enjoy these quotes about rest, sleep, and quotes about dreams!
#81
“Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it’s hard to go back to sleep.” — Fran Drescher
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#82
“Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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#83
“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
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#84
“Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.” ― Albert Camus
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#85
“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
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#86
“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
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#87
“Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
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#88
“Never waste any time you can spend sleeping.” ― Frank H. Knight
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#89
“We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.” — George Orwell
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#90
“I wonder why I don’t go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decided that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip one hour more of sleep and live.” ― Sylvia Plath
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#91
“Death, so-called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.” ― Lord George Gordon Byron
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#92
“As soon as I get into bed, I drop off. I’d better get a bigger bed.” — Tommy Cooper
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#93
“Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.” ― David Almond
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#94
“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
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#95
“Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.” — T. Boone Pickens
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#96
“Sleep has become profoundly important. I didn’t understand the value of it.” — Jamie Oliver
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#97
“When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.” ― Ursula K. LeGuin
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#98
“If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.” — Henny Youngman
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#99
“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
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#100
“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
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