[S]leep is the golden chain th...

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

~Thomas Dekker~

Without enough sleep, we all b...

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

~JoJo Jensen, Dirt Farmer Wisdom, 2002~

When you have insomnia, you're...

When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep, and you're never really awake.

~From the movie Fight Club, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk~

To sleep! perchance to dream; ...

To sleep! perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause.

~William Shakespeare~

To all, to each, a fair goodni...

To all, to each, a fair goodnight, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

~Walter Scott~

There is no snooze button on a...

There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.

~Author Unknown~

There is no hope for a civiliz...

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

~Author Unknown~

There is no better way to spen...

There is no better way to spend a gloomy day, then to sleep it all away

~Source Unknown~

There is more refreshment and ...

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

~Edward Lucas~

There is a time for many words...

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. Homer (~700 BC), The Odyssey

~Homer~

There are twelve hours in the ...

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

~Marie de Rabutin-Chantal~

Then, the cool kindliness of s...

Then, the cool kindliness of sheets, that soon Smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss Of blankets...

~ Rupert Brooke, ""The Great Lover,""~

The worst thing in the world i...

The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald~

The sleep of a labouring man i...

The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

~Ecclesiastes 5:12~

The repose of sleep refreshes ...

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~

The feeling of sleepiness when...

The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.

~Edgar Watson Howe~

The days are cold, the nights ...

The days are cold, the nights are long, The North wind sings a doleful song; Then hush again upon my breast; All merry things are now at rest, Save thee, my pretty love

~ Dorothy Wordsworth, ""The Cottager to Her Infant""~

The best cure for insomnia is ...

The best cure for insomnia is a Monday morning.

~Author Unknown~

The best bridge between despai...

The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.

~E. Joseph Cossman~

The bed is a bundle of paradox...

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~