Sleep Quotes Over The Years
Many famous and respected people have talked about their relationship with sleep throughout the years.
We all have a relationship with sleep and, hopefully, the quotes in this list will resonate with you.
Homer (750BC ish)
Even where sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.
(Of course too much is bad for you. Too much of anything is bad for you. Too much water is bad for you! Too much is exactly that; the quantity that is excessive.)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, the death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourished in life's feast.
(Quite a beautiful way to say "sleep is good.")
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1949)
Sleep, those little slices of death - how I loathe them.
(What an unsurprising opinion about sleep from an author who made his name with macabre, gothic stories.)
Gandhi (1869-1948)
Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
(As a Hindu who believed in reincarnation, being reborn is par for the course.)
Wilson Mizener (1876-1933)
The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.
(How true.)
Ernest Hemmingway (1899-1961)
I love sleep. My life has a tendency to fall apart when I am awake.
(Given what we know about Hemmingway, at least he was honest.)
Dr Seuss (1904-1991)
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
(Speak for yourself, Dr! In my dreams, I can fly)
Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
Donald Trump (1946-present day)
I have friends who are successful and sleep ten hours a night, and I ask them, ‘How can you compete against people like me if I sleep only four hours?’ It rarely can be done. No matter how brilliant you are, there’s not enough time in the day.
(He even boasts about his sleep.)
Elon Musk (1971-present day)
I've tried [to sleep] less...even though I'm awake more hours, I get less done.
We hope that some of these quotes have given you food for thought about your own opinion of sleep and, maybe, have changed how you actually view your sleep.
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