It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from…

It appears that every mans insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

— F Scott Fitzgerald

Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.

— Edmund Vance Cooke

Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity, Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify, Weary bodies refresh and mollify.

— Ovid

Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.

— Charles Caleb Colton

A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and…

— William Wordsworth

And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened…

— D. H. Lawrence

Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat…

— Miguel de Cervantes

Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.

— Miguel de Cervantes

The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.

— Wilson Mizner

O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse.

— William Shakespeare

O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.

— Thomas Hood

Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine!

— Wallace Shawn

The worst thing in the world is to be bland.

— Ben Huh

“I pass a still-warm honey bourbon bread pudding over the head of the chatty old woman to the man behind her, for his insomnia.”

— Ellen Pauley Goff

Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator…

— Barbara Kingsolver