Sleep Quotes

Old women snore violently. They are like bodies into which bizarre animals have crept at night; the animals are vicious, bawdy, noisy. How they snore! There is no shame to their snoring. Old women turn into old men.

Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.

Be anchored to some ideal, philosophy or cause that keeps you too excited to sleep.

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.

The pillow is a silent Sibyl, and it is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that.

He sleeps well who knows not that he sleeps ill.

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

When Sleeping Beauty wakes up she is almost fifty years old. Time to start planning her retirement cottage.

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.