Insomniac Quotes

#1. The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

Leonard Cohen

#2. I'm an insomniac - the affliction of champions.

Emma Chase

#3. I stumbled into this format for 'Last Call with Carson Daly' that I really like, inspired by cable and Dave Attell's 'Insomniac.' I love being out on the street.

Carson Daly

#4. For every poet it is always morning in the world; history a forgotten, insomniac night. The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world in spite of history.

Derek Walcott

#5. Only by recalling a dream is an insomniac sure he's slept.

Mo Yan

#6. What else could I be? If I were a mono-thinker, I probably wouldn't be an insomniac. How is a poly-thinker supposed to fall asleep, and more importantly, stay asleep, when thoughts just won't stop darting! darting! darting! through my head?

Rachel Cohn

#7. I'm an insomniac, so my perfect reader is probably another insomniac.

John Burnside

#8. I'm an insomniac. Ambien is my best friend.

Johnny Weir

#9. My attention span is all over the place, and I overthink things. I'm an insomniac.

Selena Gomez

#10. Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?"
"I give."
"You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.

David Foster Wallace

#11. I was a very special child. I did stand-up comedy. I did it all. My family didn't understand. 'Aren't you tired?' I'm like, 'No.' I'm like an insomniac, I hardly sleep, I'm always on the move.

Alessandra Torresani

#12. As a seasoned insomniac, I knew sometimes the way to beat sleeplessness was to outwit it: to pretend you didn't care about sleeping. Then sometimes sleep became piqued, like a rejected lover, and crept up to try to seduce you.

Erica Jong

#13. Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I'm concerned that this will affect the quality. I might have a Scotch to keep me going, but I like to be as awake and as alert as possible.

Elliot Perlman

#14. Paris is an insomniac's heaven. There is always something to photograph, something hidden in the shadows. One can see so much more in the darkness than in the light of day.

Francine Prose

#15. I'm not an insomniac. It's just that my mind is in the best position to catch the weight of all hovering possibilities the moment I lie down.

Joyce Rachelle

#16. You're like a dream I never want to wake up from, but I; I'm insomniac!

Ahmed Mostafa

#17. With reference to the younger generation ... "If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not to go straight from the classroom to the cubicle to the coffin, it doesn't mean they're lazy. It means they're sane."

Anna Quindlen

#18. It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality.

Gilles Deleuze

#19. I'm a bit of an insomniac. I'm always thinking. I've got a lot of ideas for lyrics and shows. I have a notepad by the side of the bed and voice recorders around the house.

Kid Rock

#20. He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the night when the insomniac longs for a third side after trying the two he has.

Vladimir Nabokov

#21. It's funny because before I joined the cast of 'Heroes,' I was an insomniac. I have suffered from insomnia for, like, so long. Now that I'm on the show, seriously - I sleep like a baby. I'm so tired all the time.

Dana Davis

#22. In the middle of a long, quiet night I might give my mother a sharp kick. She'll wake, become insomniac, reach for the radio. Cruel sport, I know, but we are both better informed by the morning.

Ian McEwan

#23. Evelyn was an insomniac so when they say she died in her sleep, you have to question that.

Garrison Keillor

#24. I'm an insomniac lately. It's one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship],

Kristin Hannah

#25. I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.

Patti Smith

#26. What is that one crucifixion compared to the daily kind any insomniac endures?

Emil Cioran

#27. I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.

Pete Wentz

#28. I am an insomniac. Most of my nights include a moment of wakening. Often I will make my way to the kitchen to make tea and read for awhile.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#29. I'm just an insomniac struggling for a night where I don't dream of you anymore.

Lone Alaskan Gypsy

#30. I either eat too much or starve myself. Sleep for 14 hours or have insomniac nights. Fall in love very hard or hate passionately. I don't know what grey is. I never did.

Anais Nin

#31. The hollows around her eyes were darkly glamorous, her mouth sullen: she had the beauty of an insomniac.

Jardine Libaire

#32. I became an insomniac, really, hardly slept at all, didn't even try to. And it's carried on. I hate to say I only need as much sleep as Mrs. Thatcher, but I can cope really well on five hours.

Sue Townsend

#33. I am an insomniac.

Josh Hartnett

#34. She married the prince
and all went well
except for the fear
the fear of sleep.
Briar Rose
was an insomniac ...
She could not nap
or lie in sleep
without the court chemist
mixing her some knock-out drops
and never in the prince's presence.

Anne Sexton

#35. I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.

A. J. McLean

#36. I'm kind of an insomniac and watch TV late at night.

Monica Keena

#37. I caught the smell of a warm woman and I saw the eyes of an insomniac leopard in the darkness ...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#38. Except he'd been wrong about that. There was a monster in the lake. It had grabbed Hassan by the ankles, dragged him to the murky bottom. I was that monster. That was the night I became an insomniac.

Khaled Hosseini

#39. Is I the insomniac's question?
Are you a dendrite or a dream?
Between oblivion and affection,
which one is fear and which protection?

Bruce Smith

#40. That small freckle postulates a grin on my face:
see to it that midnight reeks insomniac on your eyes;
I turn the pillow upside down to not smell my breath again
Is there, aside from my memory, for you a better place?

Ashfaq Saraf

#41. I live in the middle of nowhere and I'm an insomniac. I just make the time and I read and write really fast so that makes a lot possible for me. I wish I had an explanation for it. I'm grateful for it.

Roxane Gay

#42. Only the insomniac looks on with open eyes, like a cadaver who forgot to die.

Gyula Krudy

#43. I don't sleep much. It takes me a long time to fall asleep. I'm a bit of an insomniac but, when I fall asleep, I don't ever want to wake up.

Enrique Iglesias

#44. Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence.

Alberto Manguel

#45. I read a lot of The Canterbury Tales on my phone, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed to have a middle-of-the-night edition for the insomniac reading.

Rick Moody

#46. Sometimes, at the least opportune times, the past is an insomniac, alive and well.

Courtney Cole

#47. My name is Sherman J. Alexie Jr., and I am an insomniac.

Sherman Alexie

#48. Boy needs to get a good night's sleep. Otherwise, he'll be lucky to get accepted at SUNY-So Far Upstate You Might As Well Be In Canada, eh?

Rachel Cohn

#49. Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of time. There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with and love shouldn't be one of them.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#50. Because of my experience in Desert Storm I have permanent Insomnia but don't get me wrong I love sleep I can never get enough of it.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#51. O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, 1710. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?

William Shakespeare

#52. I'm awake and I can't sleep. The more I'm awake, the more I see, and the harder to sleep.

Donna Lynn Hope

#53. My heart can feel the softness of a star
Only when the moon stays afar
I lay my mind on the pillow of sky
Where sleep dares not ever to pry

Munia Khan

#54. Choices are like connecting highways. They all take you to the same place. Some just take longer to get there.

Ione Skye

#55. Staring at the blue sky causes insomnia to occur in the human

Steven Magee