Top 100 Can Sleep Quotes

#1. You can't go to sleep without a cup of tea and maybe thats the reason that you talk in your sleep ...

Louis Tomlinson

#2. By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.

Samuel Richardson

#3. I don't want you to go, but I can't make you stay. I want to continue holding you in my arms at night when you can't sleep and be there in the morning when you're adjusting to yet another new outfit. I also need someone to burn dinner because that doesn't happen nearly enough for me.

Sydney Landon

#4. A daughter,' Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed with him. 'Any fool can have a son,' he said. 'It takes a man to conceive a daughter.

Ariana Franklin

#5. If you cannot sleep, put the sacred energy to use. You can pray, read and write.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. Devise a simple strategy so you can sleep at night.

Walter Schloss

#7. There is a silence that comes to a house when no one can sleep. I guess it's the price of love; I know it's not cheap.

U2

#8. But it's not safe and I can feel him slipping away, so I just get out one more sentence. "Stay with me."
As the tendrils of sleep syrup pull me down, I hear him whisper a word back but I don't catch it.

Suzanne Collins

#9. Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: 'I'll go take a hot bath.

Sylvia Plath

#10. I've always thought sleep was a wonderful invention. Not that being awake isn't nice too, of course. But when I get up in the morning, I think, boy, only fourteen more hours and I can be back to sleep again ... And I never dream, because it distracts my mind from pure sleeping ...

Anne Tyler

#11. Remember, nobody can make another person fall asleep. How to relax and let sleep come is a skill your child, like everybody else, must learn all by herself.

Magda Gerber

#12. Love can do all but raise the Dead I doubt if even that From such a giant were withheld Were flesh equivalent But love is tired and must sleep, And hungry and must graze And so abets the shining Fleet Till it is out of gaze.

Emily Dickinson

#13. When I'm doing something I love, I can lose sleep. I can go and go and go and go. My work ethic is pretty intense. But when it comes to doing something that I don't love every day, I'm not very good at it. That's called work, and I don't like work that much.

Queen Latifah

#14. When I go to sleep, someone wakes up to get their hustle on, that's why I get my 2 hours, their 2 hours and overseas 2 hours in. I'll make sure no one can catch me.

Behdad Sami

#15. There is no magic. There is no secret. You need your sleep. A lot of our society tries to get by, but the truth is it is up to each individual to get their optimal sleep amount. If you get less than that you can get by temporarily, but it's only temporary.

Richard Berry

#16. So to me, Texas Hold 'em puts me to sleep. At least when you play stud, you can be funny as you deal. Somebody some day is going to come up with a Stud show that's going to work.

Joseph Bologna

#17. A tree can be tempted out of its winter dormancy by a few hours of southerly sun - the readiness to believe in spring is stronger than sleep or sanity.

Amy Leach

#18. Dan slept throughout - but a man who sleeps with his head lying on a phone table can never really sleep with a clean conscience

Will Self

#19. My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.

Kate Del Castillo

#20. You can't dance with me in the day and sleep in his arms at night. You can't have the sun and moon at the same time. Unless there's an eclipse.

Neha Yazmin

#21. Who can sleep on the night that God became man?

Edith Stein

#22. I can't sleep,' he said. 'Let me lie with my head on your silver breast.

Jean Rhys

#23. The wicked stepmother, which is the ego, can put the Sleeping Beauty or Christ within us to sleep, but she can never destroy it. What is created by God is indestructible.

Marianne Williamson

#24. For the choke, there are no "tough guys". With an arm lock he can be tough and resist the pain. With the choke he just passes out, goes to sleep.

Helio Gracie

#25. There is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.

Madame De Stael

#26. I start work at 7 A.M. and write all day, seven days a week. If I don't write, I can't sleep.

Anthony Horowitz

#27. The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.

Natalie Massenet

#28. Love me like today is the last day we can see stars in the sky, let us sleep under them and throw ourselves into the oblivion and never again reach out for reality.

Akshay Vasu

#29. You've only mastered the storm you can sleep through.

Bill Johnson

#30. So, sleep deprivation, and sometimes an insomnia, which is a little bit of a different form, but just getting a lack of sleep, can lead to a number of different decrements.

Shelby Harris

#31. If you wear clothing, and put out trash you are using up resources that others also need BUT I can pay attention and I can do better. That I know for sure about me, my soul needs to try or I can't lay my head down on my pillow at night and even hope to sleep.

Kristin Bauer Van Straten

#32. Okay," she drew out. "Let me rephrase that. Did you sleep with Sage yet?"
I blushed furiously.
She smacked my leg and exclaimed, "I knew it! I could smell it on you."
"You can smell it on me?"
She grinned. "When I was hugging you, yeah. Your chest smelled like cologne and man tongue.

Karina Halle

#33. Sleep deprivation can lead to insanity, and insanity can lead to buying sweatshirts at Abercrombie

Casey Rand

#34. When I can't sleep, I read a book by Steve Allen.

Oscar Levant

#35. That sound of settling into the sheets and the covers has to be one of the best things in the world. Sleep is a mercy. You can feel it coming on, like being swept up in something.

Marilynne Robinson

#36. If you think about evolution, sleep, at some time, was a dangerous undertaking. You lie down in your cave or shelter, and along comes a predator and has you for dinner. Many creatures do not sleep or sleep while standing so they can escape from dangerous situations.

Bernie Siegel

#37. The poisonous serpent of afflictions is sleeping in your mind; just as if a black viper were asleep in your room. You must use the hook of precepts to quickly remove it. When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease.

Gautama Buddha

#38. If you're doing anything interesting in the world, you are going to have critics. You can't stop it. Move forward. It's not worth losing any sleep over.

Jeff Bezos

#39. Oh, hell! I can't sleep!" "Neither can I! But I might as well try - as a matter of principle." Twelve hours later, sleep was still just that - a matter of principle, unattainable in practice.

Isaac Asimov

#40. I know I burn for you.Even in my sleep, the sleep of our people where there can be no thought,I burn for you.

Christine Feehan

#41. Abstraction, n.
Love is one kind of abstraction. And then there are those nights when I sleep alone, when I curl into a pillow that isn't you, when I hear the tiptoe sounds that aren't yours. It's not as if I can conjure you up completely. I must embrace the idea of you instead.

David Levithan

#42. Who can wrestle against Sleep? - Yet is that giant very gentleness.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#43. And I am sick for want of sleep;
So sick, that I can half-believe
The soundless river pouring from the cave
Is neither strong nor deep;
Only an image fancied in conceit.

Philip Larkin

#44. While ye sleep in my arms, I can say things to ye that would be daft and silly waking, and your dreams will know the truth of them.

Diana Gabaldon

#45. I just can't sleep tonight knowing that things ain't right.

Justin Bieber

#46. If women can sleep their way to the top, how come they aren't there?

Ellen Goodman

#47. When you have these van tours, you drive six hours with the doors closed and windows rolled up. You pull into the venue, check into the cheap hotel you can afford, eat whatever is there, sleep, wake up, and repeat. You're not really participating in the community.

Ben Sollee

#48. The reason I wrote 'I'm Too Young for This!' is to spare young women the suffering of hormonal loss - and it is true suffering. You can't sleep, you gain weight for no reason, you bloat for no reason, your moods are altered, and your sex drive is diminished.

Suzanne Somers

#49. Tartakower once wrote that after planting a Knight in the center you can go to sleep. This is not to be taken literally, of course, but it contains more than a germ of truth.

Samuel Reshevsky

#50. What ... what about when I'm married?"
"We'll buy a cot. Your husband can sleep on that when he visits.

Stephanie Perkins

#51. I've got to stay awake,' she said, punching her cheeks until the roses came. 'There isn't time to sleep, I'd look consumptive, I'd sag like a tenement, and that wouldn't be fair: a girl can't go to Sing Sing with a green face.

Truman Capote

#52. The great thing about having been poor is how liberated it makes you if you eventually become rich. There's nothing like the knowledge that you don't need money to survive. That the money cushion you lie on every night doesn't have to be three feet thick, and you can still get to sleep.

Bill Maher

#53. Soon, he can hear Nathen's breathing, slight little snores. But Alex refuses to let sleep take him. He wants to stay awake, he wants to drink in every last moment of their first night together.

Martin Wilson

#54. Woman of my dreams, I don't sleep so I can't find her

Lil' Wayne

#55. Jesse said, "You know what we are, Tim? We're nighthawks. We're the ones who go out at night and guard everything so people can sleep in peace. We've got our eyes peeled; no one's going to slip anything past us.

Ron Hansen

#56. If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.

A.J. Liebling

#57. I can't even sleep in. My body won't let me.

Erin Heatherton

#58. It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.

Samuel Johnson

#59. You can pretend none of this ever happened when you leave, or pretend you had no choice. I don't give a fuck what you have to tell yourself to sleep at night. For the next two weeks you belong to me.

Teresa Mummert

#60. Sometimes, when I can't get to sleep, I imagine all the rules I'd invent if I ever got to be in charge of the world.

Sophie Kinsella

#61. They tell you that at his age, all they do is eat, sleep, and poop. And what I've learned is they can actually do all three at the same time. Who knew?

Josh Duhamel

#62. I sleep. In this room. In the dark. I have a place I can sleep. I have a chair. That's just beautiful. Oh, yeah. I like the desert. It's hot there in the desert, but it's clean. It's clean.

Howard Hughes

#63. The happiest people among us are those who can sleep when they want to ...

Abu Sufyan Ibn Harb

#64. How can we preserve our planet on which little girls are supposed to sleep in their beds, and not lie dead on the road with unplaited pigtails? And so that childhood would never again be called war-time childhood.

Svetlana Alexievich

#65. One of the first symptoms of depression, even before your mood drops to new lows, is sleep disturbance. Either you can't get up or you can't get to sleep or both.

John J. Ratey

#66. Listen, ump. How can you sleep with the lights on?

Amos Otis

#67. Just as good and virtue, sin and evil can only be given in vigil. Who sleeps, sleeps; for the asleep there is no sin, just as there is no good, nor virtue. There is only sleep.

Judas Iscariot

#68. Anyone can sleep with a guy in 24-48 hours, but you're sending the wrong signal to the guy if you do that.

Steve Harvey

#69. I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son; she is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep.
My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside.
Amen.

Aimee Bender

#70. You are right that a man needs light like he needs bread, but a man needs a little
darkness, too, if only so that he can sleep, and dream.

Ned Beauman

#71. You can't become a billionaire stepping over children sleeping on the street.

Bernie Sanders

#72. I can push everything into the dark.But it leaves me empty.And the dark always ends up finding me in my sleep

Rebecca Donovan

#73. My rule for the corporate stuff is the same as with my music - I do whatever means I can sleep at night and whatever means I can be dignified.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

#74. Beautiful colours can be bought in the shops on the Riatlo, but good drawing can only be bought from the casket of the artist's talent with patient study and nights with out sleep.

Tintoretto

#75. What am I going to do?"
"Hopefully obsess in silence so I can get to sleep".
Meghan and Grimalkin

Julie Kagawa

#76. If you can cultivate wholesome mental states prior to sleep and allow them to continue right into sleep without getting distracted, then sleep itself becomes wholesome.

Dalai Lama

#77. Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.

Herman Melville

#78. This is something that I dream about: to live films, to arrive at the point at which one can live for films, can think cinematographically, eat cinematographically, sleep cinematographically, as a poet, a painter, lives, eats, sleeps painting.

Bernardo Bertolucci

#79. I can't sleep. Too many thoughts running through my useless head.

Simone Elkeles

#80. I am compulsive about writing, I need to do it the way I need sleep and exercise and food and sex; I can go without it for a while, but then I need it.

John Irving

#81. She still talks to me now, only now she talks to me in my dreams. And I can't wait to go to sleep tonight because we have a lot to talk about. I love you.

Jamie Foxx

#82. I like to work from home. I do most of my writing in bed, late at night after everyone has gone to sleep. I need to be alone with my thoughts, and late at night is about the only time that can actually happen.

Donald Driver

#83. I think those of us who can't sleep dream better than anyone else,' Emmaline whispers with a smile. 'After all, we get to own the night.

Aimee Friedman

#84. She closes her eyes but can't fall to sleep, and so instead she conjures up again the substance of the dream ... Awake it doesn't take, though; it feels like someone else's life and she like a voyeur, watching from the outside.

Paul Murray

#85. The Christian world is in a deep sleep; nothing but a loud shout can awaken them out of it!

George Whitefield

#86. You can sleep with a gun, but when you gonna wake up and fight for yourself?

Shinedown

#87. Miss Fontanne and I rehearse all the time. Even after we leave the theater, we rehearse. We sleep in the same bed. We have a script on our hands when we go to bed. You can't come and tell us to stop rehearsing after eight hours.

Alfred Lunt

#88. I've learned very quickly to fall asleep wherever I can. I sleep in the car from event to event or show to show sometimes.

Gigi Hadid

#89. I always sleep on my own. I can't sleep with somebody else. Always separate bedrooms, bathrooms and closets. I'm very individual and I want my own space.

Bruno Tonioli

#90. You can want success all you want, but to get it, you can't falter. You can't slip. You can't sleep. One eye open, for real, and forever.

Jay-Z

#91. I balance my hormones with bioidentical hormones, I eat organic, I take supplements as determined by lab work, I sleep eight hours nightly, I use organic cosmetics and green household cleaners, and I avoid toxins as best I can.

Suzanne Somers

#92. You can't rock the boat & act like you were just trying to put a baby to sleep.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#93. The best thing you can do for your body is sleep. It's simple. Cater to your body as much as to your mind. Your body, after all, houses your mind. You have to pay attention to your physicality as much as your mentality.

Kajol

#94. You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.

Mike Tyson

#95. Never go to sleep with bad thoughts and torturing memories. They will not help you to wake up whole and fully serene - the two states of mind and body without which no man can acquit himself well at his day's task. A child should be ushered into the chamber of sleep with serene joy.

Dhan Gopal Mukerji

#96. When it comes to investing, my suggestion is to first understand your strengths and weaknesses, and then devise a simple strategy so that you can sleep at night!

Walter Schloss

#97. I think writers process their own experiences through the characters and situations they write. So for Batman, I used my own experience of losing a loved one. Grief is a strange place; it's like an altered state. You might sleep too much, so you can see the dead in your dreams.

Ann Nocenti

#98. Can one spit on a smiling face?" he inquired; or he said, "Vengeance cannot last a night's sleep.

Pearl S. Buck

#99. But more forthcoming than anything a man can ever say aloud - whether you may care for his wounds, whether you may watch over his sleep - is the silent testimony of his bearing and demeanor. For the body tells all to him who knows the language, and doesn't lie. The

Kai Ashante Wilson

#100. I sleep through the next day. Each time I go to the bathroom, I try not to look in the mirror. Once, I catch my reflection: it looks like I've been punched in both eyes.
I can't talk about the day that follows that.

Nina LaCour

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