107 Sleeping Pills Quotes

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Famous Sleeping Pills Quotes

When did a doctor prescribe, not sleeping pills, but sleep itself? — Matthew Walker

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. — Dave Barry

Sleep is the best meditation. — Dalai Lama

Dream sleep provides a fascinating neurochemical soothing balm. — Matthew Walker

Sleep is the Swiss army knife of health. — Matthew Walker

Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places. — Charles Simic

Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow. — Elizabeth Smart

Sleep is not a luxury, it’s a necessity for good health. — Rhonda Patrick

Deep non-REM sleep almost hits the save button on those recently acquired informational pieces. — Matthew Walker

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book. — Irish Proverbs

We prescribe pills and procedures when we should be prescribing sprouts, sweat, and sleep. — Will Bulsiewicz

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

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

The 'sleep when I'm dead' mentality is broken. Great sleep is an essential ingredient of great results. — Sahil Bloom

Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them. — Edgar Allan Poe

Short Sleeping Pills Quotes

  • Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world. — Leonard Cohen
  • O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse. — William Shakespeare
  • SUCCESS is being able to come home, lay your head on the pillow and SLEEP in PEACE. — Herschel Walker
  • Sleep is Mother Nature's best effort yet to counter death. — Matthew Walker
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  • Falling asleep is like landing a plane. — Matthew Walker
  • …our lack of sleep is a slow form of self-euthanasia… — Matthew Walker
  • The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep. — Matthew Walker
  • Chase normalizing blood oxygen in your body, not sleep medication. — Gary Brecka
Sleeping pills quote Sleep doesn't help if it's your soul that's tired.
Sleep doesn't help if it's your soul that's tired.

Can't Sleep Quotes

Failure is an option. It's what you do with the failure that makes you who you are. Our failures mold us. I have failed at several things in my life. What sets some of us apart, is that when we fail, we can't sleep at night. It haunts us until we have our time at redemption. — David Goggins

I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sleep is like the unicorn - it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any — Dr. Seuss

Sleeping pills quote A tiger doesn't lose sleep over the opinion of sheep.
A tiger doesn't lose sleep over the opinion of sheep.

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

When I'm worried and I can't sleep, I count my blessings instead of sheep. And I fall asleep ... counting my blessings. — Bing Crosby

I define "grindin'" as just nonstop work! Nonstop work, nonstop progress. Can't sleep during that grind - I mean, you get a little bit of it, but if you're progressin' at every hour, every second, you are grindin'. — Ace Hood

Sleeping pills quote It's hard to sleep when your heart is at war with your mind.
It's hard to sleep when your heart is at war with your mind.

When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them. — Rumi

I can't wait to wake up and try something new. I can't sleep at night because I want to try something new. — Rodney Mullen

When I think of competition it's like I try to create against the past. I think about Michelangelo and Picasso, you know, the pyramids. — Kanye West

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. — George Bernard Shaw

No Sleep Quotes

The wolf will never lose sleep, worrying about the feelings of sheep. But no-one ever told the sheep, that they outnumber the wolves. — Bray Wyatt

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

Do not sleep under a roof. Carry no money or food. Go alone to places frightening to the common brand of men. Become a criminal of purpose. Be put in jail, and extricate yourself by your own wisdom. — Miyamoto Musashi

Only those who are asleep make no mistakes. - Ingvar Kamprad

Only those who are asleep make no mistakes. — Ingvar Kamprad

Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more - O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core. — John Keats

I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything. — Fernando Pessoa

Sleeping pills quote Dream... but don't sleep.
Dream... but don't sleep.

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

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. - Erma Bombeck

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. — Erma Bombeck

No person is born great. Great people become great when others are sleeping. — African Proverbs

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away. — Zhuangzi

Before Sleeping Quotes

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. - Rumi

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. — Rumi

Your subconscious never sleeps. It is always on the job. It controls all your vital functions. Forgive yourself and every one else before you go to sleep, and healing will take place much more rapidly. — Joseph Murphy

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep. — Robert Frost

Sleeping pills quote Every morning you pick between two choices: Continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase
Every morning you pick between two choices: Continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase them. Good morning.

Make sleep your number 1 life priority. It may seem counter-intuitive at first. Once you achieve reliably high quality sleep, you'll wonder how you ever did life before in such a stupor. — Bryan Johnson

Let me drink from the waters where the mountain streams flood Let the smell of wildflowers flow free through my blood Let me sleep in your meadows with the green grassy leaves Let me walk down the highway with my brother in peace Let me die in my footsteps Before I go down under the ground. — Bob Dylan

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep. - Thomas De Quincey

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep. — Thomas De Quincey

Sleeping pills quote The best thing in life are free.
The best thing in life are free.

How well you slept last night and when you felt sleepy to go to bed, and how you felt on waking are MAINLY controlled by how early and how much sunlight you viewed before 10am in the preceding 2-3 days. Other factors matter but that’s the biggie folks. Non-negotiable biology. — Andrew Huberman

See the beauty when she wakes up from her sleep before she washes her face and combs her hair. — Moroccan Proverbs

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep. - Mahatma Gandhi

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep. — Mahatma Gandhi

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess. — H. P. Lovecraft

Not Sleeping Quotes

Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer! — Martin Luther

And I'm not sure why I'm infatuated with death, My imagination is surely an aggravation of threats... Maybe cause I'm a dreamer, and sleep is the cousin of death, Really stuck in the scheme of wondering when I'mma rest. — Kendrick Lamar

When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car. — Will Rogers

Sleeping pills quote You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

Dreams are not what you see in your sleep, dreams are things which do not let you sleep. — Cristiano Ronaldo

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps. — John Lennon

To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping. — Thomas Aquinas

Sleeping pills quote If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep. — Abdul Kalam

So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men. — Voltaire

When I'm not in a relationship, I shave one leg. That way, when I sleep, it feels like I'm with a woman. — Garry Shandling

Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested. — Hunter S. Thompson

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More Sleeping Pills Quotes

Sleeping pills quote Wake up determined to go to sleep satisfied.
Wake up determined to go to sleep satisfied.

I was curious, given the swimming pools of booze I’ve guzzled over the years - not to mention all of the cocaine, morphine, sleeping pills, cough syrup, LSD, Rohypnol… there’s really no plausible medical reason why I should still be alive. Maybe my DNA could say why. — Ozzy Osbourne

I think that a lot of men, especially once they're married, feel like their girl is just who she is, so don't treat her too special. They shut her off, and having sex before you go to bed is like a sleeping pill. I always say, you're supposed to remember the reason you even asked that girl out. — Andrew Dice Clay

I love my family. I came home the other days. My brother's passed-out on the couch, holding an empty bottle of sleeping pills. So I called the paramedics, and they pumped his stomach, and I think he's learned his lesson: you know, never to take my last two sleeping pills. — Emo Philips

Sleeping pills quote Dreams dont help you sleep.. Dreams wake you up.
Dreams dont help you sleep.. Dreams wake you up.

I went to the doctor last week. I said: 'Can I have some sleeping pills for the wife?' He said: 'Why?' I said: 'She's woke up. — Les Dawson

Another intruder that plagues our good health is sleeplessness. Insomnia is much like constipation in that stress or nervous tension can bring it on or aggravate it until there's almost no coping with it. That's why you find sleeping pills in so many medicine cabinets next to the laxatives. — Jack LaLanne

I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-colored, king-sized three deckers, which put you to sleep, wake you up, stimulate and soothe you all in one. It is an age of pills. — Malcolm Muggeridge

Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand. — Marilyn Monroe

You aim at all the things you have been told that stardom means the rich life, the applause, the parties cluttered with celebrities. Then you find that you have it all. And it is nothing, really nothing. It is like a drug that lasts just a few hours, a sleeping pill. When it wears off, you have to live without its help. — Susan Hayward

I told my doctor, "I've swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills" and he told me to have a few drinks and get some rest. — Rodney Dangerfield

I haven't taken an overdose of sleeping pills and called my agent. I haven't been in jail, and I don't go running to the psychiatrist every two minutes. That's something of an accomplishment these days. — Ava Gardner

This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a killer to kill the defective child at birth, to leave the sleeping pills beside the bed of the cancer patient ... It is the duty of society to protect the physicians from such requests. — Margaret Mead

I am fed up with men who use sex like a sleeping pill. — Toni Braxton

A sleeping pill will never take the place of a clear conscience. — Eddie Cantor

A solitary traveler can sleep from state to state, from day to night, from day to day, in the long womb of its controlled interior. It is the cradle that never stops rocking after the lullaby is over. It is the biggest sleeping tablet in the world, and no one need ever swallow the pill, for it swallows them. — Lisa St. Aubin De Teran

I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn't want to go to work the next day exhausted. — Dick York

You shouldn't be told you're completely irresponsible and be left alone with too much medication. It's too easy to forget. You take a couple of sleeping pills and you wake up in twenty minutes and forget you've taken them. So you take a couple more, and the next thing you know you've taken too many. — Judy Garland

If you lose your temper, your sound sleep will go, and you will have to use a tranquilizer or sleeping pills? Then gradually, more white hair, wrinkles. — Dalai Lama

If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul. — Clifford Odets

Read day and night, devour books - these sleeping pills - not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions. — Emile M. Cioran

On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide- it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese- the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope. — Jeffrey Eugenides

So I take a little sleeping pill, pop it and realize nothing's happening - but something else was happening. — Jeremy Renner

Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free." I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain. — Octavia Butler

My sleeping pill is white. It is a splendid pearl; it floats me out of myself, my stung skin as alien as a loose bolt of cloth. — Anne Sexton

I was so low that I wanted to exit. And I took a bunch of pills, and they were sleeping pills. And at least they would put me to sleep, and maybe I wouldn't wake up, and that was fine. — Mike Wallace

The simple life on the farm was everything to me. Nothing was more relaxing after a long plane flight than to reach the winding driveway that led up to my house. The quiet of the night was more soothing than a sleeping pill. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill. — Ethel Merman

I love to sleep because I need the rest, but I hate to miss something. I would love to be able to take a pill that I wouldn't have to sleep. So, sometimes what keeps me up at night is just that I don't want to say good-bye to that day. And at the same time, I love to start the next day. I think I'm essentially a very unsettled person. — Thomas Hampson

I like to say that I was raised by sitcoms, and that my personality is comprised of different characters. Darlene from Roseanne, Denise from The Cosby Show, Uncle Jesse from Full House, a little Jessie from Saved By The Bell - but not the episode where she was addicted to sleeping pills. — Thao Nguyen

I couldn't sell pills no more [because my] homie went to jail. I was just dirt broke. I went to TDE and was literally living in the studio where you record. I went damn near a whole two years not getting sleep because there was always somebody there recording. I was taking baths with dishwashing liquid.I was one of the dudes [who] would never ask for nothing so I would never ask for soap. — Schoolboy Q

Lies are like sleeping pills. You should only use them when you absolutely have to. They spoil everything if you make a habit of them. — Daniel Quinn

I'm up all night against my will My medicine won't let me feel anything at all The doctor gave me sleeping pills and I took one Then I feel all alone, sleeping like a stone. — Joseph Arthur

A solitary traveler can sleep from state to state, from day to night, from day to day, in the long womb of its controlled interior. It is the cradle that never stops rocking after the lullaby is over. It is the biggest sleeping tablet in the world, and no one need ever swallow the pill, for it swallows them. — Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell my brain? But in the morning my daughter asks me what a cloud is and I cannot say. — Jenny Offill

My final word, before I'm done, Is "Cancer can be rather fun"- Provided one confronts the tumour with a sufficient sense of humour. I know that cancer often kills, But so do cars and sleeping pills; And it can hurt till one sweats, So can bad teeth and unpaid debts. A spot of laughter, I am sure, Often accelerates one's cure; So let us patients do our bit To help the surgeons make us fit. — John B. S. Haldane

Even when I took the drugs I realized that this just wasn't fun anymore. The drugs had become a part of my routine. Something to wake me up. Something to help me sleep. Something to calm my nerves. There was a time when I was able to wake up, go to sleep, and have fun without a pill or a line to help me function. These days it felt like I might have a nervous breakdown if I didn't have them. — Cherie Currie

I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don't want to die. I want to eat like a normal person eats, but I need to see my bones or I will hate myself even more and I might cut my heart out or take every pill that was ever made. — Laurie Halse Anderson

You're sad because you're sad. It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical. Go see a shrink or take a pill, or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll you need to sleep. Well, all children are sad but some get over it. Count your blessings. Better than that, buy a hat. Buy a coat or a pet. Take up dancing to forget. — Margaret Atwood

We have the whitest kitchens and the most shining bathrooms in the world. But in the lovely white kitchen the average [person] can’t produce a meal fit to eat, and the lovely shining bathroom is mostly a receptacle for deodorants, laxatives, sleeping pills, and the products of that confidence racket called the cosmetic industry. We make the finest packages in the world, Mr Marlowe. The stuff inside is mostly junk." — — Raymond Chandler

I'm doped and thick from my last sleeping pill. — Sylvia Plath

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