Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.

—Fran Lebowitz

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

How can you determine whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state.

—Plato

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

Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.

—Thomas Dekker

There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

—Benjamin Franklin

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 nightlight. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember.

—Dorothy Parker

The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.

—W.C. Fields

Most people spend their lives going to bed when they’re not sleepy and getting up when they are.

—Cindy Adams

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

—Mark Twain

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

—Anthony Burgess

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

 —Herman Melville

You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you, Peter Pan. That’s where I’ll be waiting.

—Tinkerbell