Quotes About Insomnia

#1. It was daunting at first. I did have insomnia for two weeks.

Chris Frantz

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia.

Alistair Sinclair

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Insomnia"


perhaps she's a daytime sleeper.

Elizabeth Bishop

#9. 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

#10. I only sleep with people I love, which is why I have insomnia.

Emilie Autumn

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

Antonio Tabucchi

#15. I had never feared insomnia before
like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?

Lorrie Moore

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem.

Don Winslow

#20. I don't get insomnia, but I do get the odd night when I can't unwind.

Delia Smith

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.

Alain De Botton

#28. Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

Emil Cioran

#29. That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia.

James Joyce

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. I know my music is going well when I don't have insomnia.

Carly Rae Jepsen

#39. 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

#40. Unfortunately, I suffer from insomnia, so my bedtime is as soon as I start to feel the least bit sleepy.

Cheyenne Jackson

#41. 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

#42. Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.

Chuck Palahniuk

#43. A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.

Marcel Proust

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. The late-night backyard encounter and kiss induced insomnia.

Sarah Ockler

#47. At night, my dreams rhyme, and all day I have an aftertaste of insomnia.

Vladimir Nabokov

#48. 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

#49. It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#50. 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

#51. The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.

W.C. Fields

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. I still smell your absence on my skin. It smells of insomnia and rusted key locks...

Malak El Halabi

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. My life has been regulated by insomnia," Bourgeois told an interviewer in 1993.

Mason Currey

#59. When I have my moments of insomnia, you'll find me on style.

Cate Blanchett

#60. Some patients are still having insomnia, but it's seems worse to them than actually it is. So, if they say they're sleep deprived, they haven't slept at all in three days; if we actually take them into a lab, most of the time we actually do see they're sleeping on and off here and there.

Shelby Harris

#61. For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.

G. Willow Wilson

#62. In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.

Colette

#63. Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#64. For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of any interest to me.

Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#65. Life was a perpetual black fuck about a fixed pole of insomnia.

Henry Miller

#66. Insomnia, from the Greek word meaning I can't fucking sleep!

Billy Crystal

#67. Whenever I'm suffering from insomnia, I just look at a picture of a Toyota Camry and I'm straight off.

Jeremy Clarkson

#68. Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.

Charles Simic

#69. I sometimes suffer from insomnia. And when I can't fall asleep, I play what I call the alphabet game.

Roz Chast

#70. Insomnia's different," I said. It was hard to explain this to people. "You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That's what it's like in my head. The light stays on.

Barbara Kingsolver

#71. It is snowing and death bugs me
as stubborn as insomnia.

Anne Sexton

#72. TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect ("Glossina morsitans") whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American novelist ("Mendax interminabilis").

Ambrose Bierce

#73. Many of depression's symptoms - exhaustion, insomnia, nausea, headaches, weight loss, weight gain - are physical ailments.

Gayle Forman

#74. It's been a while since I hooked up with Prince Insomnia, so I guesshe was due for a visit. He hasn't changed... All tease, no action.

Kendra Leigh Castle

#75. If I were to be asked: What now constitutes the main and fundamental feature of your existence? I would answer: Insomnia.

Anton Chekhov

#76. 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

#77. What are books good for?"
"Hitting intruders?" Nick mumbled. He rubbed his eyes again. "Doorstops. Insomnia. Special interrogation techniques. Silencing bedmates in the middle of the night.

Abigail Roux

#78. Insomnia is his mind's revenge for all the tricky thoughts he has carefully avoided during the daylight hours.

Alain De Botton

#79. If a woman gets insomnia, you never know where you're going to find her furniture the next morning. It's primal. We have so little we can control, but we can perfect the way our room looks.

Nicole Holofcener

#80. He gets into the habit of thinking so passionately at night that he begins to be persecuted by insomnia.

Louis De Bernieres

#81. When I sat late, I mean late. A three-year old with insomnia is very similar to a heroin addict going through withdrawal.

Jim Gaffigan

#82. Into that world inverted where left is always right, where the shadows are really the body, where we stay awake all night, where the heavens are shallow as the sea is now deep, and you love me." - Elizabeth Bishop, from Insomnia

Tina Ann Forkner

#83. I take politics only medicinally, as a cure of occasional attacks of insomnia.

Kenneth Hare

#84. ... But all life turns away from its own eventual hopelessness, leaving insomnia and its night to lovers and the dying.

John McGahern

#85. (Surprisingly, the term has been around since at least 1782, when Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, wrote in a letter to her mother that her "feels" made her cry and gave her insomnia, similar to how a modern fangirl might feel after finishing the Mass Effect trilogy.) Feels

Sam Maggs

#86. Well, the actual function of the brain, not so sure yet. There's a lot of different theories about it, but when you talk about psychologically in your brain, a lot of people with insomnia, though not all, report that they can't turn their minds off.

Shelby Harris

#87. The World is Very Flat, There is no doubt of that. (Night Thoughts of a tortoise suffering fom insomnia on a lawn)

E.V. Rieu

#88. I think insomnia is a sign that a person is interesting.

Avery Sawyer

#89. After a night of insomnia the body gets weaker,
Becomes dear but no one's - not even your own.

Marina Tsvetaeva

#90. I am convinced that during bouts of insomnia, I have sometimes slept without knowing it.

Siri Hustvedt

#91. When they [people with insomnia] start worrying about not sleeping, I'll say, "Say the mantra to myself; if I don't sleep tonight, I'll likely sleep tomorrow, and if not tomorrow then definitely the third" because our body has a way of naturally catching up.

Shelby Harris

#92. I can't sleep. I haven't slept in days. I hate this, hate insomnia more than anything, just lying there, brain going round, tick, tick, tick, tick. I itch all over. I want to shave my head.

Paula Hawkins

#93. I'm making tapes for insomniacs to use in the future. I'm going to sell them as a kit to cure insomnia.

Jonathan Turley

#94. Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

Clifton Fadiman

#95. Insomnia: A contagious disease often transmitted from babies to parents.

Shannon Fife

#96. I've had insomnia since I was five years old. I just don't require much sleep. I'm never tired.

Nile Rodgers

#97. Insomnia is an increasing problem. I've become swayed that sleep disorders are conceivably the most unnoticed, ignored, underrated reason of health as well as performance problems in the place of work.

Sean Sullivan

#98. Nothing is lonelier or more disorienting than insomnia.

Donna Tartt

#99. Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.

Jon Stewart

#100. Know what the best thing about insomnia is? That I get to stay up all night figuring it out.

Olivia Munn