“All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.”

“He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

“Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.”

Rod McKuen (1933–2015) American poet, songwriter, composer, and singer

“And he thinks that if his soul had a form, this is what it would be. A baby sleeping in his arms.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

“All lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love;
No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love.”

Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–1885) Novelist, poet, writer, activist

“If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.”

Nikos Kazantzakis book Zorba the Greek

“I do think if I had given him two fence-rails to sleep on he would not have found fault. That was Abraham Lincoln in all things relating to his own comfort. He would never permit people to put themselves out for him under any circumstances.”

David Dixon Porter (1813–1891) United States Navy admiral

“Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.”

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

“Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations.”

Djuna Barnes book Nightwood

“A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board”

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter