At the end of a down day on Wall Street, we all need to be able to sleep peacefully at night. That comfort won’t come from our bank balance. – Hill Harper
I’m not very good at going to sleep, and that’s probably my worst problem. I don’t need much more than seven and a half hours, but I probably get six. I take all my problems to bed with me and fret. I can’t switch off. – Harriet Walter
I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear… that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived. – Harold Kushner
Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way. – Holly Near
I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night’s sleep. – Harold Wilson
I am always really buzzed after each performance, and at around one in the morning, I’ll hit a brick wall and need to sleep. – Hattie Morahan
A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep. – H. P. Lovecraft
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle. – Heinrich Heine
What is it like to fall asleep? What happens? Where do we go? Why don’t we remember? Since childhood most of us have wondered about the mystery of sleep. – Henry Reed
We didn’t sleep last week – we literally didn’t sleep – because we’ve been so busy with the book. – Hansie Cronje
It makes a difference what we choose to experience during sleep. Many of us think of sleep as a chance to get away from it all. But sleep is also a chance to return to the joys of our spiritual heritage – our universal awareness. – Henry Reed
It was weird because I was pregnant, throughout that so it was weird being a pregnant witch. I was in a really bad mood but luckily, because I sleep with the director, he just sort of scheduled me so I only had to do it two nights. – Helena Bonham Carter
I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale. – George Farquhar
I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off. – Harold Brodkey
I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it’s doable. – Imelda Marcos
I think that sleep and work are very closely related – not because you can work while you’re sleeping and sleep while you’re working. That’s not really what I mean. I’m talking specifically about the fact that sleep and work are phase-based, or stage-based, events. – Jason Fried
I’m terrified of writing at night, for then I can’t sleep. So I start slowly, slowly writing in the morning and go on into the late afternoon. – Italo Calvino
When you’re short on sleep, you’re short on patience. You’re ruder to people, less tolerant, less understanding. It’s harder to relate and to pay attention for sustained periods of time. – Jason Fried
When I was a kid, you would tune in to ‘The Tonight Show’ before you went to sleep. Johnny Carson. A big treat. I know it’s a privilege of mine to be able to be in people’s homes. So I hope I make everyone proud, including my parents, and do a good job in this. – Jimmy Fallon
