Top 100 Quotes About Insomnia
#1. I tried and tried to sleep, lulled by the movement, the purring of the motor, and the snores of the other passengers, but it's never been easy for me to sleep, and much less now, when I still have residues of the wild life running through my veins.
Isabel Allende
#2. No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up.
Robert Lynd
#3. Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again.
Paul Simon
#4. It was daunting at first. I did have insomnia for two weeks.
Chris Frantz
#5. In general, there are patients with insomnia who - many patients with insomnia will actually over report the lack of sleep that they are getting.
Shelby Harris
#6. While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their insomnia.
Evgeny Morozov
#7. Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia.
Alistair Sinclair
#8. I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.
Pete Wentz
#9. On some nights, he has nowhere to sleep, on others, he suffers from insomnia. "That's just how it is," thinks the Warrior. "I was the one who chose to walk this path.
Paulo Coelho
#10. December is the most difficult month. Medications for insomnia or depression go up during the month of December. A lot of people who experience loss feel that loss magnified in December. Everybody seems happy and you feel all alone. You're not all alone.
Max Lucado
#11. It is tempting to think of this form of insomnia, the inability to fall asleep, as a disease of agency and control: the inability to relinquish high self-reflexive consciousness for the vulnerable, ignorant regions of slumber in which we know not what we do.
Siri Hustvedt
#12. I'm so exhausted and yet I feel like I'll never sleep again.
Maya Banks
#13. Sleep deprivation is physically miserable and creatively cathartic, as internal landscapes rise up from their dormant ashes.
Jaeda DeWalt
#14. Every morning I tell myself, "I'll sleep early tonight." And every night I say, "One more chapter.
Joyce Rachelle
#16. Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night ... Without the satisfaction.
Lynn Johnston
#17. I stood at the end of the street, catching snow in my mouth, and laughed softly to myself as I realized that without my insomnia and anxiety and pain I'd never have been awake to see the city that never sleeps asleep and blanketed up for winter. I smiled and felt silly, but in the best possible way.
Jenny Lawson
#18. I only sleep with people I love, which is why I have insomnia.
Emilie Autumn
#19. Insomnia never comes to a man who has to get up exactly at six o'clock. Insomnia troubles only those who can sleep any time.
Elbert Hubbard
#20. Another intruder that plagues our good health is sleeplessness. Insomnia is much like constipation in that stress or nervous tension can bring it on or aggravate it until there's almost no coping with it. That's why you find sleeping pills in so many medicine cabinets next to the laxatives.
Jack LaLanne
#21. I think Vegas is the answer for pregnant people because of insomnia. It's open all the time and you go down and play your silly slots.
Selma Blair
#23. In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past - sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
George Eliot
#24. For there is nothing quite so terror-inducing as the loss of sleep. It creates phantoms and doubts, causes one to questions one's own abilities and judgement, and, over time, dismantles, from within, the body.
Charlie Huston
#25. I had never feared insomnia before
like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?
Lorrie Moore
#26. Acting might bring on emotional exhaustion, but writing tired your brains out. Writing led to depression and insomnia and walking around all day with a haggard look.
Richard Yates
#27. We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.
Thomas Browne
#28. Insomnia
I cannot get to sleep tonight.
I toss and turn and flop.
I try to count some fluffy sheep
while o'er a fence they hop.
I try to think of pleasant dreams
of places really cool.
I don't know why I cannot sleep -
I slept just fine at school.
Kathy Kenney-Marshall
#29. Sleep comes more easily than it returns.
Victor Hugo
#30. I'm not about to argue with a full professor, but if you ever have a really unbreakable case of insomnia, do yourself a favor and start reading Chapter Three of the uncut version.
William Goldman
#31. I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem.
Don Winslow
#32. I don't get insomnia, but I do get the odd night when I can't unwind.
Delia Smith
#33. For six months I couldn't sleep. With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.
Chuck Palahniuk
#34. I have such bad insomnia and sometimes with insomnia, you can sort of relax and read a book, but anyone who has insomnia knows that other times, it generates incredible anxiety.
Jai Uttal
#35. I'm so tired. Sleep's been stalking me for too long to remember. Inevitable I suppose.
Mark Z. Danielewski
#36. People would ask me, 'Is he as funny at home as he is in the movies?' ... I would have to answer, 'Well, he can be funny. But he is also very serious. He has insomnia and if we him up early, he would bawl the hell out of me'.
Arthur Marx
#37. This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can't touch anything and nothing can touch you.
Chuck Palahniuk
#38. An intensely gripping narrative ... expertly crafted and totally addictive ... a must read!
Maggie Reese
#39. When you're gripped by anxiety, worry, insomnia, or panic, make yourself shiver, quiver, tremble, and shudder. It seems silly, but it really works.
Jude Bijou
#40. Between the midnight and the morning: on a given day, that's the hardest stretch of time to fill.
Luis Joaquin M Katigbak
#41. There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons.
Henry Channon
#42. Poor sleepers should endeavor to compose themselves. Tampering with empty space, stirring up echoes in pitch-black pits of darkness is scarcely sedative.
("Out Of The Deep")
Walter De La Mare
#43. A fickle lover, sleep takes us as it will, when it wants, and how. Sensing her desperate need, however, it draws Corrie deeply into its embrace, somewhere between her tears and terror.
Kimberly Morgan
#44. In this candid and rounded memoir, Baksi answers the questions a multitude of Larsson's fans have already asked about his upbringing; the recurring death threats; his insomnia and his vices; his feminism
Stieg Larsson
#45. It is at night when sleep like the outgoing sea leaves you dry and cold and the morning light arrives like a small punishment.
Chloe Thurlow
#46. I felt very bad and could not sleep until 1am. Maybe he could coach me defence.
Tamim Iqbal
#47. Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
Alain De Botton
#48. Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.
Emil Cioran
#49. That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia.
James Joyce
#50. Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity of the world, leaving you prey to your private obsessions.
Emile M. Cioran
#52. So there's a few different ways that we treat insomnia. The first thing that we always do is we look at the cause.
Shelby Harris
#53. So, sleep deprivation, and sometimes an insomnia, which is a little bit of a different form, but just getting a lack of sleep, can lead to a number of different decrements.
Shelby Harris
#54. I fix the cramped, lined pages
with my curious stare. How do you
come to exist?
Kiera Woodhull
#55. I'm so tired, but I can't sleep. Standing on the edge of something much too deep.
Sarah McLachlan
#56. When I can't sleep I count the buckles on my straightjacket.
Cathie Linz
#57. I also turn to homeopathic remedies for the treatment of indigestion, travel sickness, insomnia and hay fever just to name a few. Homeopathy offers a safe, natural alternative that causes no side effects or drug interactions.
Cindy Crawford
#58. But it is the subjects, the conversations, the facts we shy away from, which claim us in the form of writer's block, as mere rhetoric, as hysteria, insomnia, and constriction of the throat.
Adrienne Rich
#59. O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.
Thomas Hood
#60. The monsters were never
under my bed.
Because the monsters
were inside my head.
I fear no monsters,
for no monsters I see.
Because all this time
the monster has been me.
Nikita Gill
#61. There are some patients who just have insomnia and they've had it since they were a kid and we don't quite know why. So when we look at the cause, we definitely want to treat whatever else is going on, but insomnia often because it becomes its own diagnosis and that requires its own treatment.
Shelby Harris
#62. The ancient priest who had taken Father Angel's place and whose name no one had bothered to find out awaited God's mercy stretched out casually in a hammock, tortured by arthritis and the insomnia of doubt while the lizards and rats fought over the inheritance of the nearby church.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#63. The problem with radio frequency (RF) exposure is not the small amount of brain tumors, is it the large amount of subtle alterations in the brain that lead to attention, confusion, insomnia and fatigue problems.
Steven Magee
#64. Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.
Edmund Vance Cooke
#65. 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
#67. India's head ached. Insomnia was still her most attentive, cruelest lover, demanding and possessing her selfishly whenever it chose to do so. Light-heartedness was beyond her today. A man of middling quality was trying to marry her, and there was something wrong with her father's voice on the phone.
Salman Rushdie
#68. Unfortunately, I suffer from insomnia, so my bedtime is as soon as I start to feel the least bit sleepy.
Cheyenne Jackson
#69. I distinctly remember being a fifth-grader and lying in bed at three a.m. thinking, I am the only kid awake in the world. The insomnia feeds the anxiety, the anxiety feeds the insomnia, and my night would become a human centipede of sleeplessness.
Mamrie Hart
#70. What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?
Frank Herbert
#72. Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear, your head like the golden rod, and we will go sailing away from here to the beautiful Land Of Nod.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#73. Try staying awake for 24 hours and you'll realize just how many needless worries your mind instantly shuts out.
Joyce Rachelle
#74. O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night.
William Shakespeare
#75. A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.
Marcel Proust
#77. I've had insomnia since I was a little kid and I never sleep well. Sometimes I sleep very badly and sometimes I sleep slightly badly. I get it especially when I'm on tour because you cross a lot of time zones, and I'm not very adaptable.
Moby
#78. That's the advantage of insomnia. People who go to be early always complain that the night is too short, but for those of us who stay up all night, it can feel as long as a lifetime. You get a lot done
Banana Yoshimoto
#79. The late-night backyard encounter and kiss induced insomnia.
Sarah Ockler
#80. I crave stillness,
And yet I fear the moment
Stillness turns into boredom,
And the moment boredom
Turns into loneliness.
Chris Mc Geown
#81. Alone with thoughts of what should have long been forgotten, I let myself be carried away into the silent screams of delirium.
Amanda Steele
#82. At night, my dreams rhyme, and all day I have an aftertaste of insomnia.
Vladimir Nabokov
#83. Nothing can unite two people like early morning insomnia. It was a bond Jack and I had that you never did. You always slept like you were dead. But at three or four in the morning, when no one else is awake, it's a lot easier to open up.
Kate Kae Myers
#84. Like chocolate, she craved sleep and it made her life brighter, but she could do without.
Thomm Quackenbush
#85. , I don't fall asleep easily, but when I do, its a nightmare.
Parth Shiralkar
#86. Pack up all my care and woe, blackbird, bye-bye
Stephen King
#87. It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#88. I was proud of working 18 hours a day and sleeping three hours a night. It's something now that has turned into a problem for me: not being able to sleep ... having insomnia.
Sean Combs
#89. The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
W.C. Fields
#90. Of all the things which make up our Short-Time lives, sleep is surely the best.
Stephen King
#91. The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational animal when other animals are equally reasonable? But there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot.
Emile M. Cioran
#92. For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.
Aristotle.
#93. The kingdom of sleep demands its forfeits, and the world looks very different through eyes cracked and yellow with its denial.
Alaya Dawn Johnson
#94. Sometimes I pretend I have an insomnia problem when what I really have is a good book and a lack of respect for tomorrow's schedule.
Anonymous
#95. I still smell your absence on my skin. It smells of insomnia and rusted key locks...
Malak El Halabi
#96. Sometimes I sit up late with my thoughts, reluctant to fall asleep and leave my thoughts alone by themselves.
Robert Breault
#97. Sleep resistance, bouts of insomnia, nightmares, night terrors, crawling into bed with parents in the middle of the night - all these are so common among children, it seems fair to call them 'normal.'
Siri Hustvedt
#98. Since seeing Max Kirsten for insomnia - I'm finally achieving a good night's sleep, its just wonderful. He's my new secret weapon!
Marie Helvin
#99. Whether ideas like this are inspiration or insomnia, I don't know," he writes in his journal. "I do things by sixth sense." Patton
Bill O'Reilly
#100. From the tattered edges of an exhausted mind, inspiration blooms ... mental filters disintegrate and walls crumble, as the ocean of creativity washes over everything.
Jaeda DeWalt
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