Cant Sleep Anxiety Quotes

#1. The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.

Christopher Hitchens

#2. I started turning 40 at 38. I had pains all over my body. I couldn't sleep, I had rampant anxiety, and I couldn't stop eating and drinking.

Lorraine Gary

#3. Lawyer's anxiety about the fate of the most interesting cause has seldom spoiled either his sleep or digestion.

Walter Scott

#4. What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?

Frank Herbert

#5. I never sleep on the plane. I have to be awake and using my mind power to keep it in the air

Jen Lancaster

#6. When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air.

John Lubbock

#7. You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full of nervous dreams, and to wake up not knowing who one is: this all stems from anxiety about finishing the book, about time 'growing short', etc., and the perpetual strain of invention.

Jack Kerouac

#8. I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.

Felicia Day

#9. It was impossible to sleep. Anxiety stopped me from falling asleep; depression woke me up.

David Walliams

#10. By nature we do not like the anxiety which spiritual concern causes us, and we try, like sluggards, to sleep again.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#11. Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer
both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.

Bram Stoker

#12. Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.

William Shakespeare

#13. Nagasaki destroyed by the magic of science is the nearest man has yet approached to the realization of dreams that even during the safe immobility of sleep are accustomed to develop into nightmares of anxiety.

J.G. Ballard

#14. Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm on tour it can be hard to sleep.

Natalie Imbruglia

#15. A person can hurry through or sleep walk through life, but whenever they stop to catch their breath or awaken from a long nap, they will find apprehension, disquiet, and fretfulness waiting their directed attention.

Kilroy J. Oldster