Many of us have experienced the frustration of tossing and turning in bed, unable to fall asleep. During these restless nights, it can be helpful to turn to quotes that express the shared struggle of insomnia. “Can’t sleep quotes” offer comfort in the knowledge that we’re not alone in our sleeplessness. Some of these quotes are humorous, poking fun at the absurdity of our sleepless state. Others are more serious, expressing the anxiety and restlessness that can accompany insomnia. Regardless of their tone, these quotes remind us that the inability to sleep is a universal human experience, and that we can find solace in the company of others who are also struggling to get some shut-eye. Here are some can’t sleep quotes for you.
Can’t Sleep Quotes Funny
“My day starts backwards … I wake up tired and go to bed wide awake.” — Unknown
“Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.” – Jon Stewart
“Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night… without the satisfaction.” – Lynn Johnston
“I’m an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.” – Pete Wentz
“Error 404 sleep not found.” – Vishal Surelia
“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.” – Anthony Burgess
“Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.” – Albert Camnus
“The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.” – Wilson Mizner
“Don’t fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.” – Edmund Vance Cooke
“Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine!” – Wallace Shawn
“According to the ‘you snooze, you lose’ principle, insomnia makes us winners!” – Unknown
“Friend: Are you getting enough sleep? Me: Sometimes when I sneeze, my eyes close.” – Unknown
“The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.” – W.C. Fields
“His insomnia was so bad; he couldn’t sleep during office hours.” – Arthur Baer
“My bed is a magical place where I suddenly remember everything I forgot to do.” – Unknown
“Insomnia sharpens your math skills because you spend all night calculating how much sleep you’ll get if you’re able to fall asleep “right now’.” – Unknown
“Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.”― Clifton Fadiman
“Insomnia is an indication, not a chaos. It’s like an ache. You’re not going to provide a patient ache medicine without figuring out what’s reasoning the pain.”― Judith Owens
“For insomniacs, night steals the morning.”― Terri Guillemets
The best cure for insomnia is a Monday morning.” — Unknown
“Sleep is such a luxury, which I can’t afford.” — Robin Sikarwar
“The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.” — W. C. Fields
“Nothing cures insomnia like the realization that it’s time to get up.” — Unknown
“Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night… without the satisfaction.” — Lynn Johnston
“My day starts backwards … I wake up tired and go to bed wide awake.” — Unknown
If you are awake at 4 a.m., you are either in love or lonely, and I don’t know which one is worse.
I think of you at 2 a.m. when I can’t sleep and I wish you were there to hold me.
I lie awake at night thinking of you.
My no sleep game is too strong.
At night, I can’t sleep. In the morning, I can’t wake up
I’ve forgotten what it’s like to have a normal sleeping pattern.
50 shades of dark circles under my eyes.
I have two moods: Sleep is for the weak. I need to sleep for a week.
Some people can’t sleep because they have insomnia. I can’t sleep because I have the internet connection.
That moment when tomorrow is here and you’ve been trying to go to sleep since yesterday.
I’m like, four days past my bedtime.
I hate people who can go to sleep as soon as they shut their eyes. Like that takes me 3 hours, 700 position changes, and a sacrifice to the gods.
She dreams more often than she sleeps.
Sleep is such a luxury, which I can’t afford.
A sad soul is always up past midnight.
I wish I had someone to talk to when I can’t sleep.
Nothing is louder than overthinking after midnight.
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And if you are awake at 4 a.m., you are either in love or lonely, and I don’t know which one is worse.
The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4 am knows all my secrets. – Poppy Z. Brite
Can’t Sleep Quotes Sad
“My eyelids are heavy, but my thoughts are heavier.”― Unknown
“There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.” — Mindy Kaling, Is Everybody Hanging Without Me?
“I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at four in the afternoon, I’d be a college graduate today.” — George Foreman, Former Professional Boxer
“I don’t need a hairstylist, my pillow gives me a new hairstyle every morning.” — Unknown
“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.” — Anthony Burgess, Inside Mr. Enderby
“I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything till noon. That’s when it’s time for my nap.” — Bob Hope, British-American Comedian
“You miss 100% of the naps you don’t take.” — Unknown
“I already want to take a nap tomorrow.” — Anonymous
“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.” — Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller’s Housekeeping Hints
“I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.” — Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.” — Henny Youngman, English-American Comedian
“When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.” — Tom Hodgkinson, British Writer
“I’m so good at sleeping that I can do it with my eyes closed.” — Anonymous
“Early to rise, early to bed, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.” — James Thurber, American Cartoonist
“No wonder Sleeping Beauty looked so good…she took long naps, never got old, and didn’t have to do anything but snore to get her Prince Charming.” — Olive Green, Author
“Dear sleep, I’m sorry we broke up this morning. I want you back!” — Anonymous
“A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.” — Charlotte Brontë, English Novelist and Poet
“In the morning you beg to sleep more, in the afternoon you are dying to sleep, and at night you refuse to sleep.”― Unknown
Brain: May I offer you a selection of your worst memories from the last 10 years?― Unknown
“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”― John Steinbeck
“My eyelids are heavy, but my thoughts are heavier.”― Unknown
“The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.”― W. C. Fields
“The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.”― Leonard Cohen
“In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.”― Colette
“I love to sleep. Do you? Isn’t it great? It really is the best of both worlds. You get to be alive and unconscious.” — Rita Rudner, American Comedian
“Your eyes water when you yawn because you miss your bed and it makes you sad.” — Anonymous
“My mother told me to follow my dreams, so I took a nap.” — Unknown
18. “I love you and I always smile when I meet you in my dreams.”
19. “I am madly in love with you, sweet dreams.”
20. “Good Night my beautiful love.” 21. Thank you for reminding me of all the beauty things in life. Good night my love!
22. Sweet dreams to you on this beautiful night.
23. Dream of You Till We Meet again
24. Goodnight my love, pleasant dreams
25. Your Love is like the moon that shines above me.
26. My beautiful love, I will love you until infinity runs out
27. Sleep tight little angel, dream of me
Can’t Sleep Captions For Instagram
“The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author
If nothing is going right, screw everything and go off to sleep
I am not lazy, sleeping is my favourite hobby
I don’t oversleep, I wake up on time and put myself on energy saving mode
Noon nap time is my happy hour
Nap hours are the only happy hours I love in my life
Give me a comfy bed and pillow, and I am sorted
“Sleeping is the best meditation” — Dalai Lama
“Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man, healthy, wealthy and wise” — Benjamin Franklin
Some people don’t sleep early because they hare in a relationship, I don’t sleep early because of internet
Sometimes, I feel I am dating internet because it keeps me up all night long
Dear mind, stop overthinking and let me sleep
I can’t sleep because I am hungry, more than in love
Brain keeps on talking to itself and hence, I just can’t sleep early
I can’t sleep early, can anyone please date me
“Legend says that when you can’t sleep, it’s because you’re awake in someone’s dream. So if everyone could stop dreaming about me, that would be great!” — Unknown
“Happiness is waking up, looking at the clock and finding that you still have two hours left to sleep.” — Charles M. Schulz, American Cartoonist
“No civilized person goes to bed the same day he gets up.” — Richard Harding Davis, American Journalist
“I always say ‘morning’ instead of ‘good morning,’ because if it was a good morning, I’d still be asleep.” — Anonymous
“Don’t give up on your dreams so soon, sleep longer.” — Anonymous
“A day without a nap is like a cupcake without frosting.” — Terri Guillemets, Quotation Anthologist
“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?” — Ernest Hemingway, American Author
“Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.” -— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
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