“There are just really days you don’t want to get up. You take your time staring at the walls of your room looking for an excuse to never rise and see what the world has to offer.”— Danielle Wassmer, thoughtcatalog.com
“Remember that today you can’t get out of bed because the world doesn’t make sense to you anymore, but tomorrow it could all change, tomorrow you can find the light again, tomorrow someone might tell you they need you and tomorrow you might meet someone who can change your life forever.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“And tonight, like every night, they will cry to themselves in the dark while counting sheep, waiting for sleep – their short death at the end of every day.”— Nadé Marshall, thoughtcatalog.com
“Depression is sleep. Too much, and way too little. You’re always tired—not from the lack of sleep—you’re a weird, unknown type of exhaustion that sneaks into your life and somehow, without you noticing, becomes part of who you are.”— Katie Mather, thoughtcatalog.com
“You try and go back to sleep and wait for the morning. Wait for that alarm that tells you, ‘we have another day to fight’ but it’s a battle even on your worst days you won’t give up.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“You know you’re getting older when staying in bed all day is suddenly a guilt-ridden experience.”— Dyana Goldman, thoughtcatalog.com
“There are times when bed is the only place on earth where peace is to be had.”— Richard Llewellyn, amazon.com
“I decided to stay in bed until noon. Maybe by then half the world would be dead and it would only be half as hard to take.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“I had a massive bed at home, and I loved her dearly. She was my queen, and I was her loyal subject.”— Robyn Schneider, amazon.com
“Every time my head hit the pillow, I wondered why I had ever left my bed in the first place.”— Emily Adrian, amazon.com
“I just want to not be me. Whether it's sleeping or playing video games or riding my bike or studying. Giving my brain up. That's what's important.”— Ned Vizzini, amazon.com
“I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid of this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind.”— Laurie Halse Anderson, amazon.com
“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”— Ned Vizzini, amazon.com
“Sleep had ceased to be a mere physical necessity; it was something voluptuous, and debauch more than a relief.”— George Orwell, amazon.com
“For several days, I slept. Whether this was a necessary part of physical recovery, or a stubborn retreat from waking reality, I do not know, but I woke only reluctantly to take a little food, falling at once back into a stupor of oblivion, as though the small, warm weight of broth in my stomach were…”— Diana Gabaldon, amazon.com
“Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day. If you do something foolish or painful today, you get irritated if somebody mentions it, today. If it happened yesterday, though, you can nod or chuckle, as the case may be. You've c…”— Roger Zelazny, amazon.com