84 Nap Time Quotes

Following is our list of nap time quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about afternoon naps.

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Famous Nap Time Quotes

Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice, like a beautiful swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity. — Peggy Noonan

With Great power comes great need to take a nap — Nico

The timely dew of sleep Now falling with soft slumb'rous weight inclines Our eyelids. — John Milton

Sleep is the best meditation. — Dalai Lama

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. - Homer

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. — Homer

Sleeping like an internet person takes commitment, it all starts in the late afternoon. — Troye Sivan

O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse. — William Shakespeare

Sleep is Mother Nature's best effort yet to counter death. — Matthew Walker

The sleepy like to make excuses. — Benedict of Nursia

Time, motion and wine cause sleep. — Ovid

They discovered that naps as short as twenty-six minutes in length still offered a 34 percent improvement in task performance and more than a 50 percent increase in overall alertness. — Matthew Walker

Napping during the day can relieve sleep pressure but make it harder to fall back asleep at night. — Peter Attia

You know what Sunday is, it's a day with a lot of potential for naps. — Polly Horvath

This is so much fun, but I’m so sleepy. To be continued? - John Green

This is so much fun, but I’m so sleepy. To be continued? — John Green

There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead — Benjamin Franklin

Short Nap Time Quotes

  • Dream sleep provides a fascinating neurochemical soothing balm. — Matthew Walker
  • Take a nap in a fireplace and you'll sleep like a log. — Ellen DeGeneres
  • Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. — William Blake
  • Pussy put his ass to sleep, now he calling me NyQuil — Nicki Minaj
  • Sleep is the Swiss army knife of health. — Matthew Walker
  • Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Deep non-REM sleep almost hits the save button on those recently acquired informational pieces. — Matthew Walker
  • A little drowsing cat is an image of perfect beatitude. — Champfleury
  • Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow. — Elizabeth Smart
  • Sleep is beautiful because it makes your training jobs advance. — Andrej Karpathy

Nap Time Image Quotes

Nap time quote One day, you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the thing you've always wanted. Do
One day, you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the thing you've always wanted. Do it now.

Napping Quotes

I don't think I was awake for much of my childhood. I did a lot of napping. This might have been a defensive measure against encroaching depression. Until about the age of eleven or twelve, I had zero interests other than trying to steal gumballs from supermarket gumball machines. — Michael Ian Black

Humans can't live in the present, like animals do. Humans are always thinking about the future or the past. So it's a veil of tears, man. I don't know anything that's going to benefit me now, except love. I just need an overwhelming amount of love. And a nap. Mostly a nap. — Townes Van Zandt

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list. — Denis Leary

Nap time quote Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine wh
Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it's their time.

People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms. — Alice Walker

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap. — Barbara Jordan

TRUE WEALTH - Worriless sleeping, Clear conscience, Reciprocal gratitude, Absence of envy, Muscle strength, Frequent laughs, No meals alone, No gym classes, Good digestive functions, No meeting rooms, Periodic surprises, Foamy coffee, Crusty bread, Ability to nap, Access to a hammock — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nap time quote Every time you judge someone else, you reveal an unhealed part of yourself.
Every time you judge someone else, you reveal an unhealed part of yourself.

This is the dream of all the world. The dream is to live in Granada. You know, work in the morning, have a one-hour in the afternoon, at night go out and have that life. You know. Go out and see your friends and eat tapa and drink red wine and be in a beautiful place. — Anthony Bourdain

I've got magic. I've got poetry at my fingertips. — Charlie Sheen

I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap. — Bob Hope

I always see these landscapes in my dreams, and feel happy. I desperately try to transform these dreams into artwork, so that even while napping, I construct and reconstruct various images. — Yayoi Kusama

Afternoon Naps Quotes

It was around 4 p.m. in the afternoon. I was just taking a nap. Luckily, my sister was home. — Sherman Austin

Researchers at Harvard say that taking a power nap for an hour in the afternoon can totally refresh you. They say that by the time you wake up you'll feel so good, you'll be able to start looking for a new job. — Jay Leno

Two things I dislike about my granddaughter - when she won't take her afternoon nap, and when she won't let me take mine. — Gene Perret

Nap time quote Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is
Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.

I like to take afternoon naps in the nude. — Cleo Moore

Avoid activities outdoor. If you like to take an afternoon nap sleep under bed net. So these are measures that can be done to minimize [the] chance of infection [with Zika virus]. — Margaret Chan

Short naps are good. Given modern workplace demands, this is not possible for many people - but if you have the option, try napping for ten to twenty minutes in the afternoon, preferably lying down in a darkened room. — Andrew Weil

Nap time quote Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass away.

Mornings belong to whatever is new; the current composition. Afternoons are for naps and letters. — Stephen King

To me, video games aren't something as necessary as food or sleep, but they're just as important as delicious food, drinks, afternoon naps, walks, music, and sex (or masturbation). Not having them won't kill you, but without them, your life would be so boring you might as well be dead. — Hidetaka Suehiro

Tigerkit was nagging his mother. "Why can't I go out?" "You've just come in." "But it's a sunny day." "You need a nap." "I'm not tired." "You will be later." "I'll sleep then." "But you'll be grumpy all afternoon if you don't nap now." "No, I won't." "Yes, you will. — Erin Hunter

I like to sleep about four or five really solid hours at night, and then sometimes take a nap in the afternoon or early evening after dinner. I love naps. — Dan Chaon

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More Nap Time Quotes

My very first kiss happened when I was 6, underneath some desks during 'nap time', but my first real kiss happened when I was 15 in the parking lot at a Mexican food restaurant. — Armie Hammer

I wouldn't say I was grumpy. It's more pathological - I have seismic tantrums. I get red in the face and cry at least three times a week, and I have to lie down and have a nap afterwards. — Jenny Eclair

Consciousness: That annoying time between naps — Steven Wright

The point they (Lissitzky, Rodchenko, Tatlin, Gabo, the neo-Plasticists, and so on) all had in common was to be inside and outside at the same time. For me, to be inside and outside is to be in an unheated studio with broken windows in the winter, or taking a nap on somebody's porch in the summer. — Willem de Kooning

If you find a reluctancy to go into the presence of God, there may be unconfessed, unrepented sin in your life. Part of your quiet time is to get your heart clean and pure. Each of us needs to take ourselves by the nap of our necks and confess and repent before we come into God's holy presence to fellowship. — Adrian Rogers

There is always time for a nap. — Suzy Becker

I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time. — Martha Stewart

If higher summer temperatures become the norm in the future, people will adjust. Perhaps they'll take naps more frequently in the afternoon and convert their houses accordingly. The good thing is that all of these changes will not happen overnight, but in the space of decades. We still have enough time to react. — Hans von Storch

When you can't figure out what to do, it's time for a nap. — Mason Cooley

I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground. — Charlie Sheen

I do my best stuff midmorning and superlate at night, from 1 to 5 in the morning. Some people don't need sleep. I actually do need sleep. I just sleep all the time. I'll catch naps in the afternoon, or I'll take a 20-minute snooze in the office - just all the time. Our business is 24 hours. Our guys in Europe come online at midnight. — Matt Mullenweg

I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination decides it needs to take a nap. maybe that's what it needs to do. — Elliott Smith

What do you think they're going to do to us when they find us guilty?" she says after a few minutes of silence have passed. "Honestly?" "Does now seem like the time for honesty?" I look at her from the corner of my eye. "I think they're going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap. — Veronica Roth

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap. — Bob Hope

In your 50s, time becomes precious and must not be wasted. Every minute is an excellent opportunity for a good nap. Happy 50th birthday! — Bill Cosby

With two kids it's hard to find down time to write so I often write during their nap time. — Tori Spelling

My door was open part of the time, and part of the time I tried to get a nap and their voices annoyed me, and I closed it. I kept it open in summer more or less, and closed in winter. — Lizzie Andrew Borden

They call me Freestyle Freddy and I'm always ready to rap. Even when I wake up from a nap. Economic devastation's kinda sweeping the nation. It's time for us to wake up and get an education. — Fredric Brandt

Nap time over. Gonna go be active. Do it people!!! In the end all you have is your health. — Scott Eastwood

Nap time would become a national pastime. A man needs his beauty rest! — Si Robertson

I have a sofa on which I never nap, big windows with an ocean view that I rarely see because I keep the pleated shades down at all times while working. I know I'm a potential slacker, so I don't tempt myself. — Dean Koontz

I make myself lie down every afternoon; otherwise I'll be too exhausted by the night-time. If I can't nap, I'll watch a little bit of TV and just relax for two or three hours. — China Machado

I have a hard time getting past the day without the nap, so the nap is a must. — Mohnish Pabrai

You have to be very clear with yourself about how you're going to spend your time. When a child is at school or napping, you need to realize that this is your writing time and you don't spend it surfing the Internet or reading. — Elizabeth Hoyt

Just as important as getting enough sleep is thinking about sleep in the right way. Stop thinking of sleep and naps as “downtime” or as a “waste of time.” Think of them as opportunities for memory consolidation and enhancing the brain circuits that help skill learning. Nor should you feel guilty about sleep. It's just as crucial a part of successful brain work as the actual task itself. — Richard Restak

We have our share of accidents at nap time. However, the one thing we never do is shame the child, or use blaming words. — Jean Parker

One more item for the delusional Miss Grundys still obtusely citing Reagan as their model of “niceness”: As governor of California, Reagan gave student protesters at Berkeley the finger. Remember that next time you ask yourself: “What would Reagan do?” People who are afraid of ideas whitewash Reagan like they whitewash Jesus. Sorry to break it to you, but the Reagan era did not consist of eight years of Reagan joking about his naps. — Ann Coulter

When you're late in a fairy tale, people wind up dead. And not true-love's-kiss, glass-coffin-nap-time dead. Really dead, the kind of dead you don't recover from. — Mira Grant

Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future. — Thomas Carlyle

After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap. That's a big one, the napping on demand! — Maria Semple

Uncontrolled or covert napping, however, is still probably very common. One need only move through a building surreptitiously and peek at people to find some subset of sleep at any given time. — David F. Dinges

It is well known that when Thomas A. Eddison was stymied by a problem, he would lie down and take a short nap. — Maxwell Maltz

My door was open part of the time, and part of the time I tried to get a nap and their voices annoyed me, and I closed it. I kept it open in summer more or less, and closed in winter. — Lizzie Borden

Temperament, you'll find, is highly dependent on time of day, weather, frequency of naps, and whether one has had enough to eat. — Catherynne M. Valente

I only date college guys.” “You don’t know any college guys,” Kami pointed out. Angela’s gaze went to Kami, and she smiled. “Which leaves me with more time for napping. — Sarah Rees Brennan

I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger. - T-SHIRT — Darynda Jones

Once upon a time, Sleeping Beauty decided to take a nap from which she would never wake up. — Rachel Cohn

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