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Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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

No day is so bad it can’t be fixed with a nap.~ Carrie Snow

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

There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.~ Edward Lucas

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

Life is something that happens when you can’t get to sleep.~ Fran Lebowitz

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

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.~ Charles Caleb Colton

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

Life is too short to sleep on low thread-count sheets.~ Leah Stussy

Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.~ Author Unknown

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.~ Ambrose Bierce

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

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

Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.~ Author Unknown

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

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

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.~ Charlotte Brontë

People who snore always fall asleep first.~ Author Unknown

Without enough sleep, we all become tall two-year-olds.~ JoJo Jensen

The best cure for insomnia is a Monday morning.~ Author Unknown

The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock.~ Author Unknown

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

Nothing cures insomnia like the realization that it’s time to get up.~ Author Unknown

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

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.~ Plutarch

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

Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Fatigue is the best pillow.~ Benjamin Franklin