79 Sleep Deprivation Quotes
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Famous Sleep Deprivation Quotes
Inadequate sleep—even moderate reductions for just one week—disrupts blood sugar levels so profoundly that you would be classified as pre-diabetic. — Matthew Walker
…our lack of sleep is a slow form of self-euthanasia… — Matthew Walker
Individuals fail to recognize how their perennial state of sleep deficiency has come to compromise their mental aptitude and physical vitality. — Matthew Walker
No aspect of our biology is left unscathed by sleep deprivation. — Matthew Walker
The physical and mental impairments caused by one night of bad sleep dwarf those caused by an equivalent absence of food or exercise. — Matthew Walker
Sleep-deprived individuals also generate fewer and less accurate solutions to problems. — Matthew Walker
When sleep is deficient, there is sickness and disease. — Matthew Walker
Human beings are the only species that deliberately deprive themselves of sleep for no apparent gain. — Matthew Walker
Sleep is probably one of the most potent drivers of immune function. Sleep deprivation renders people susceptible to a downtick in immune function. — Peter Attia
That short-sleeping that we're now suffering is a consequence of our lifestyle. — Matthew Walker
Sleep is not a luxury, it’s a necessity for good health. — Rhonda Patrick
Less than 7 hours of sleep at night causes lower overall brain function. — Daniel Amen
Many people walk through their lives in an underslept state, not realizing it. — Matthew Walker
Light is a profound degrader of our sleep. — Matthew Walker
Ten days of six hours of sleep a night was all it took to become as impaired in performance as going without sleep for twenty-four hours straight. — Matthew Walker
Short Sleep Deprivation Quotes
- Below seven hours of sleep, there are objective impairments in the body. — Matthew Walker
- A day without work can yield a night without sleep. — Albanian Proverbs
- I think many people walk through their lives in an under-slept state not realizing it. — Matthew Walker
- People dramatically underestimate how much sleep is linked to all the diseases killing us. — Matthew Walker
- By keeping patients awake for longer, we build up a strong sleep pressure. — Matthew Walker
- We have stigmatized sleep with the label of laziness. — Matthew Walker
- Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease. — Hippocrates
- No one wants to give up time with their family or entertainment, so they give up sleep instead. — Matthew Walker
- Sleep is the Swiss army knife of health. — Matthew Walker
- The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world. — Leonard Cohen
Lack Of Sleep Quotes
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
If you’re not prioritising your sleep, it’s highly likely you’re not getting enough. When we’re as time-poor as we are these days, sleep tends to be the first thing to be pushed aside. We don’t realise how much we need it and how much stress a lack of it can cause. — Rangan Chatterjee
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 as heart disease, obesity, dementia, diabetes, and cancer—all have recognized causal links to a lack of sleep. — Matthew Walker
At first, I could lie about my lack of sleep and she'd fall for it, but she started suspecting insomnia when I began seeing purple elephants in the air vents at the office. I knew I shouldn't have asked her about them. I thought maybe she'd redecorated. — Darynda Jones
You only ever experience two emotions: euphoria and terror. And I find that lack of sleep enhances them both. — Marc Andreessen
You lack the season of all natures, sleep. — William Shakespeare
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. — Gaston Bachelard
You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure they're all pointed in the right direction. — Mark Pincus
Sleep is just a symptom of caffeine lack — Herman Friele
A lack of restful sleep disrupts the body's innate balance, weakens our immune system, and speeds up the aging process. — Deepak Chopra
People Writing About Sleep Deprivation
More Sleep Deprivation Quotes
Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You'll realize this as soon as they are born and they start using sleep deprivation to break you. — Ray Romano
Our circadian biology, and the insatiable early-morning demands of a post-industrial way of life, denies us the sleep we vitally need. — Matthew Walker
Your subjective sense of how well you're doing under conditions of sleep deprivation is a miserable predictor of, objectively, how you actually are doing. — Matthew Walker
After thirty years of intensive research, we can now answer many of the questions posed earlier. The recycle rate of a human being is around sixteen hours. After sixteen hours of being awake, the brain begins to fail. Humans need more than seven hours of sleep each night to maintain cognitive performance. After ten days of just seven hours of sleep, the brain is as dysfunctional as it would be after going without sleep for twenty-four hours. Three full nights of recovery sleep — Matthew Walker
Sleep deprivation is the most common brain impairment. — William C. Dement
Laugh and the world laughs with you! — Grant Morrison
There is no such thing as sleep deprivation, there is only caffeine deficiency. — Richard Simmons
The current male-dominated model of success - which equates success with burnout, sleep deprivation, and driving yourself into the ground - isn't working for women, and it's not working for men, either. — Arianna Huffington
Sometimes it is difficult to remember, but other times it is very easy to remember. Sleep deprivation is the killer. — Andy Samberg
A half-hour before bedtime, I remind myself that I now deserve to prepare myself for a good night's sleep. You can't focus on your work if you're sleep-deprived even if you have a fascinating job. — Marty Nemko
As soon as you lay down, that's when the most bizarre things start coming out of her mouth. 'Goodnight, baby.' 'Do you think we were together in a past life?' 'Yeah, and I died of sleep deprivation. Go to bed.' 'Don't you feel like we're soul...' — Adam Ferrara
There's no doubt in my mind that sleep deprivation is the hidden number one cause of arguments and cybersex. I'm convinced that countless good relationships end and bad ones begin because of chronic fatigue. Never make a major decision until after you've taken a nap. — Sarah Ban Breathnach
Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... Without the satisfaction. — Lynn Johnston
We're beginning to realize that drowsiness or sleep deprivation, fatigue, is beginning to outstrip alcohol as a cause of accidents in transportation, particularly on the highway. — William C. Dement
Cancer is manageable. That if you deprive cancer of what it wants, by proper nutrition, avoiding toxins, avoiding chemicals and pharmaceuticals, sleeping well, eliminating stress, and balancing hormones with natural bioidentical hormones, you have a real shot at keeping your cancer at bay. In this way, you are managing your cancer. — Suzanne Somers
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
The first time we ever lit up a suit was on Garrett. He was the first finished costume that we had, the "Sam" character. And it brought tears to my eyes, because you're working so hard to make something happen and you're just in there, and you're delirious with sleep deprivation. To see it work, to see his reaction, made it all worthwhile. — Christine Bieselin Clark
Workplace accidents with people who are sleep deprived or people who work shifts and they don't get the right amount of sleep during the day or at night. — Shelby Harris
I just love the delusional, hallucinatory qualities of sleep deprivation. I can't get enough of it. — Andrew W.K.
Many students of dreams, from Plato to [Sigmund] Freud, hold that the sleeping person,deprived of contact with the outside world, regresses temporarily to an irrational primitive mental state. — Erich Fromm
So when you go to sleep at night, if you're someone who hasn't had any sleep deprivation, you have a very normal sleep pattern, what we tend to see is that, in adults, they go to bed and they start off by going into the deeper stages sleep. — Shelby Harris
I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life. — Anton Chekhov
I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level. — Cate Blanchett
Yes, I was deprived of sleep, especially during the first few days, ... However, there was nothing physical, no touching or anything like that. — Shane Osborn
Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut Animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph... Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us? — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
When you become a mom you just learn how to function sleep deprived and you do get used to it. I came back to work when Finley was three months old and the first few months were rough. Then somehow you learn to exist on no sleep and now when he does upon occasion sleep through the night, which is like a full six hours, you're pretty sure he's suffocating. So you don't sleep anyway. — Holly Marie Combs
I looked on YouTube for sleep deprivation and there were videos of people experimenting with staying awake for a while. You saw all the different stages. — Rooney Mara
The young are in great danger. Much evil results from their light and trifling reading. Much time is lost which should be spent in useful employment. Some would even deprive themselves of sleep that they might finish some ridiculous love story. — Ellen G. White
Some patients are still having insomnia, but it's seems worse to them than actually it is. So, if they say they're sleep deprived, they haven't slept at all in three days; if we actually take them into a lab, most of the time we actually do see they're sleeping on and off here and there. — Shelby Harris
I have a daughter who, when younger, possessed no barrier between her emotional self and the outside world. Her emotional insides spilled out all over, and, especially when I was sleep-deprived and probably a little paranoid, this really threatened me. It was as if she were embodying and expressing the insecurities and freaked-outedness I never express, and which I've learned over the years to keep hidden. — Heidi Julavits
Sleep is a most useful and most salutary operation of nature. Scarcely any minor annoyance angers me more than the being suddenly awakened out of a pleasant slumber. I understand that in Italy they torture poor people by depriving them of sleep. `Tis a torture that cannot long be endured. — Martin Luther
The problem with being passionately in love ... is that it deprives you of too much sleep. — Dan Simmons
I love having a full schedule everyday and always being a little bit sleep deprived and just kind of love that lifestyle. — Lauren Conrad
I think a good mom is an awake mom. At least for me, I've always been a kinder, better person awake than sleep-deprived! — Lisa Loeb
Day and night gifts keep pelting down on us. If we were aware of this, gratefulness would overwhelm us. But we go through life in a daze. A power failure makes us aware of what a gift electricity is; a sprained ankle lets us appreciate walking as a gift, a sleepless night, sleep. How much we are missing in life by noticing gifts only when we are suddenly deprived of them. — David Steindl-Rast
Sleep deprivation made his life an imaginary thing, his days a ribbon floating aimlessly in water." - Whelk — Maggie Stiefvater
Sullen monosyllabism, a sure sign of sleep deprivation. — Jim Butcher
Omigod,' I said on a sudden flash of sleep-deprived insight. 'You're the big bad wolf.' There are some similarities. — Janet Evanovich
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