Evolutionary Quote by Matthew Walker

If sleep does not provide a remarkable set of benefits, then it's the biggest mistake the evolutionary process has ever made.

— Matthew Walker

It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.

— Aaron Levie

Human beings are the only species that deliberately deprive themselves of sleep for no apparent gain. Many people walk through their lives in an…

— Matthew Walker

Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.

— Roger Zelazny

No aspect of our biology is left unscathed by sleep deprivation. It sinks down into every possible nook and cranny. And yet no one…

— Matthew Walker

“the shorter your sleep, the shorter your life. The leading causes of disease and death in developed nations—diseases that are crippling health-care systems, such…

— Matthew Walker

I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.

— Anton Chekhov

“Once we have reached a certain degree of enfeeblement, whether caused by age or by ill health, all pleasure taken at the expense of…

— Marcel Proust

Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

— Plato

A lack of restful sleep disrupts the body's innate balance, weakens our immune system, and speeds up the aging process.

— Deepak Chopra

When I was young I just regarded not sleeping as a fantastic way to pack more into my days. I always reasoned that life's…

— Toyah Willcox

What I believe...about more sleep than is needful concerns the individual who goes far beyond the need, developing slothful and lazy habits, which deaden…

— Alvin R. Dyer