Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.  ~Virginia Woolf

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

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

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

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

Not being able to sleep is terrible.  You have the misery of having partied all night… without the satisfaction.  ~Lynn Johnston

When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn’t believe what a racket they make in my room. ~Karl Kraus, translated from German by Harry Zohn

Then, the cool kindliness of sheets, that soon
Smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss
Of blankets….
~Rupert Brooke, "The Great Lover,"

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

Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care
The death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath
Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course,
Chief nourisher in life’s feast.
~William Shakespeare, Macbeth

Don’t fight with the pillow, but lay down your head
And kick every worriment out of the bed.
~Edmund Vance Cooke

[S]leep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.  ~Thomas Dekker

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

Early to rise and early to bed
Makes a man healthy and wealthy and dead.
~James Thurber, Fables for Our Times, 1940LCD

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience – unless they are still up.  ~Ellen Goodman

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 have thought of all by turns, and yet do lie
Sleepless!
~William Wordsworth

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.  ~Marie de Rabutin-Chantal

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

Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.  ~George Allen

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

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

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 sense in forgetfulness?
~William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I

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

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

Without enough sleep, we all become tall two-year-olds.  ~JoJo Jensen, Dirt Farmer Wisdom, 2002rdqq1202

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he’d make a fortune.  ~Griff Niblack in News (Indianapolis, Indiana)

A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.  ~Marcel Proust

Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals.  ~Vladimir Nabokov

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

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

But no one ever is allowed in Sleepytown, unless
He goes to bed in time to take the Sleepytown Express!
~James Jackson Montague, The Sleepytown Expressstanza 1; reminds me of sleep gates opening every 90 minutes or so; BMC

It’s a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it’s light out.  ~Bill Watterson

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

Consciousness:  that annoying time between naps.  ~Author Unknown

O bed! O bed! delicious bed!
That heaven upon earth to the weary head.
~Thomas Hood, Miss Kilmansegg – Her Dream

Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine.  ~Author Unknown

If people were meant to pop out of bed, we’d all sleep in toasters.  ~Author unknown, attributed to Jim Davis

A day without a nap is like a cupcake without frosting.  ~Terri Guillemets

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson