121 of the Best Sleep Quotes to Help You Fall Asleep

We've taken the time to compile our favourite quotes about sleep. 121 sleep quotes in fact. From heartfelt sayings to thought-provoking proverbs. Explore a world from quotes with sleep at the forefront of all of them.

Enjoy reading them before bed as a new wind-down routine or as a way to help your children fall asleep.

If after you're done exploring these beautiful sleep quotes, take the time to learn about 20 Fascinating Sleep Facts You Never Knew About.

Inspirational Sleep Quotes

1. "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." - Benjamin Franklin
2. "There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep." - Homer, The Odyssey
3. "A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book." - Irish Proverb
4. "Sleep is the single most effective thing we can do to reset our brain and body health each day" - Dr Matthew Walker
5. “Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.”- Mahatma Gandhi
6. “Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.” - H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure
7. “Sleep is God. Go worship.” - Jim Butcher, Death Masks
8. “Man is a genius when he is dreaming.” - Akira Kurosawa
9. “Eat healthily, sleep well, breathe deeply, move harmoniously.” - Jean-Pierre Barral
10. “Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.” - David Almond, My Name Is Mina
11. "Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon." - Charles M. Schulz
12. "We are such stuff as dreams are made on." - William Shakespeare
13. “Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.” - Desiderius Erasmus
14. "There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled." - Edward Lucas
15. "No day is so bad it can’t be fixed with a nap." - Carrie Snow
16. "Having peace, happiness and healthiness is my definition of beauty. And you can't have any of that without sleep." - Beyonce
17. "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
18. "Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel." - Francesca Annis
19. "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
20. "I'm going to sleep well tonight knowing that I made the right decision." - George Ryan
21. "Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.” - David Almond
22. "I LOVE TO SLEEP. When I'm rested, I'm at my best." - Halle Berry
23. "Sleep has become profoundly important. I didn’t understand the value of it." - Jamie Oliver
24. "People spend money on beauty potions, but a good night's rest makes all the difference." - Christina Aguilera
25. "Tired minds don't plan well. Sleep first, plan later." - Walter Reisch

Funny Sleep Quotes

1. "Without enough sleep, we all become tall two-year-olds." - Jojo Jensen
2. "I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?" - Ernest Hemingway
3. “Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.” - Anthony Burgess
4. “There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.” - Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
5. “Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep” - Albert Camus
6. “Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!” - Martin Luther
7. “Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night.” - Charles Fisher
8. “The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.” - W.C. Fields
9. “Time to start getting more sleep. This beautiful physique needs royal treatment.” - Elizabeth Rudnick, Tweet Heart
10. “Always wear cute pyjamas to bed, you'll never know who you will meet in your dreams.” - Joel Madden
11. "You miss 100% of the naps you don’t take." - Unknown
12. "I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four." - Yogi Berra
13. "When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap." - Tom Hodgkinson
14. "A day without a nap is like a cupcake without frosting." - Terri Guillemets
15. "The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more." - Wilson Mizener
16. "Any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime." - Red Skelton
17. "Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it." - Rod McKuen
18. "No wonder Sleeping Beauty looked so good...she took long naps, never got old, and didn't have to do anything but snore to get her Prince Charming.” - Olive Green
19. "When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument." - Zsa Zsa Gabor
20. "Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank." - Alphonse Allais
21. "Next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you're in a science fiction movie. And whisper, 'The creature is regenerating itself.'" - George Carlin

Romantic Sleep Quotes

1. “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” - Dr. Seuss
2. “I make love with a focus and intensity that most people reserve for sleep.” - Dark Jar Tin Zoo
3. “Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other, knits the sleep, so that it takes the body and soul completely in its healing.” - D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
4. "Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night." - St. Jerome
5. “How strange, to dream of you, even when I am wide awake.” – D.J.
6. “And I start sleeping and dreaming and I think I’ll dream about you all through the night.” – John Mayer

For When You Can't Sleep Quotes

1. "The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep." - E. Joseph Cossman
2. "Insomnia is my greatest inspiration." - Jon Stewart
3. "A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow." - Charlotte Bronte
4. “The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.” - Poppy Z. Brite
5. “When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.” - Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness
6. “If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.” - Dale Carnegie
7. “Put my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.” - Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
8. “I crave the sweet surrender of sleep and my dreams' uncensored communication: no tiresome small talk, sucking up to impress, or tiptoeing around charged topics. Dreams are the naked truth; get ready for it.” - Judith Orloff
9. “Never waste any time you can spend sleeping.” - Frank H. Knight
10. “As important as it is to have a plan for doing work, it is perhaps more important to have a plan for rest, relaxation, self-care, and sleep.” - Akiroq Brost
11. “All I want is to sleep--to dream. Life is better in dreams.” - Christina Westover, Poisoning Sylvie
12. "Your future depends on your dreams, so go to sleep." - Mesut Barazany
13. "When you lie down, you will not be afraid. Your sleep will be sweet." - Proverbs
14. "If you were not to set an alarm clock, would you sleep past it? If the answer is yes, then there is clearly more sleep that is needed." - Matthew Walker
15. "There's a reason they call it 'beauty sleep.' Getting 7 to 9 hours of sleep a night can actually improve your appearance." - Lauren Conrad
16. "A mom who has slept is an alert and happier mommy." - Tamera Mowry
17. "Taking breaks isn’t about cheating yourself, it’s about treating yourself.” - Curtis Tyrone Jones
18. "In this fast-paced world, it's important to slow down sometimes.” - Dano Janowski
19. "Put my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.” - Stephen Chbosky
20. "A night full of nightmares is way better than a sleepless one.” - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
21. "We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us." - Laurie Colwin
22. "My body has decreed that I shall nap, and nothing will stand in my way.” - Kathryn Ormsbee
23. "Reading and naps, two of life's greatest pleasures, go especially well together.” - Will Schwalbe
24. "I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.” - Jennifer Niven

Thought Provoking Sleep Quotes

1. “What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.” - Werner Herzog
2. “Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.” - Lord George Gordon Byron
3. “Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.” - Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
4. “In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.” - Hippocrates, The Aphorisms of Hippocrates
5. “If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight
6. “I had a dream I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.” - Stan Laurel
7. “Sleep's what we need. It produces an emptiness in us into which sooner or later energies flow.” - John Cage, M: Writings '67-'72
8. “And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have already slept so much and are preparing to sleep for all eternity.” - Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
9. “Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.” - Hippocrates, Aphorisms
10. “Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting...” - William Wordsworth, The Major Works
11. "True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment." - William Penn
12. "Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.” ― Albert Camus
13. "There is renewal in rest.” - Lailah Gifty Akita
14. "I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep is the consummate protection against the unseemliness that is the invariable consequence of being awake. What you don't know won't hurt you.” - Fran Lebowitz
15. "My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better." - Marlo Thomas
16. "Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
17. "Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them." - Cam Newton
18. "Human beings are the only species that deliberately deprive themselves of sleep for no apparent gain. Many people walk through their lives in an underslept state, not realizing it." - Matthew Walker
19. "Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night." - William Blake
20. "Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.” - Mark Buchanan
21. "I think insomnia is a sign that a person is interesting.” - Avery Sawyer
22. "A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep." - W.H. Auden
23. "Rest is the best cure for busy man and work is the best cure for lazy man.” - Amit Kalantri
24. "What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.” - Werner Herzog
25. "Sleep is the Swiss army knife of health. When sleep is deficient, there is sickness and disease. And when sleep is abundant, there is vitality and health." - Matthew Walker
26. "There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.” - Alan Cohen

Beautiful Sleep Quotes

1. "Sleep is the best meditation." - Dalai Lama
2. "Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious." - Sigmund Freud
3. "Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together." - Thomas Dekker
4. “Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.” - Heraclitus, Fragments
5. “Good night - may you fall asleep in the arms of a dream, so beautiful, you'll cry when you awake.” - Michael Faudet
6. “When you wake up with a song stuck in your head, it means an angel sang you to sleep.” - Denise Baer
7. “Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.” - Albert Camus
8. "The nicest thing for me is sleep. Then at least I can dream." - Marilyn Monroe
9. "When I wake up, I am reborn." - Mahatma Gandhi
10. "Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death." - Arthur Schopenhauer
11. "A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them." - Victor Hugo
12. "At the end of the day, you go to sleep with the people you love, you wake up with the people you love, and you spend your time with the people you love." - Tyga
13. "We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep." - William Shakespeare
14. "How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams." - Bram Stoker
15. "A little bit of rest can go a long way.” - A.D. Aliwat
16. "In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable." - Knute Nelson
17. "As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death." - Leonardo da Vinci
18. "Sleep is a regenerative process where we heal and where our neurons build strong connections. It's like a fountain of youth that we dive into every night." - Mikhail Varshavski
19. "She stared at the stars like they were pillow for her mind and in their light she could rest her heavy head.” - Christopher Poindexter