I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Thomas Jefferson

Sleep is the best meditation.
Dalai Lama

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. Lewis

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
Benjamin Franklin

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Mohandas Gandhi

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, "Did you sleep good?" I said "No, I made a few mistakes."
Steven Wright

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work," because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
Andy Warhol

Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.
W. C. Fields

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

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
Henry David Thoreau

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.
Bob Dylan

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway

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

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
Leonardo da Vinci

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Walt Whitman

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
Walt Whitman