Quotes About Lying Awake At Night

#1. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like a bird that has blundered down the flue and is caught indoors and flutters at the windowpanes. It is like standing a long time on a cold day, knocking at a shut door.

Wendell Berry

#2. I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

Wendell Berry

#3. And oh, when we still used to sleep together, lying awake at night and finding one's only consolation in imagining in detail how one would go downstairs and find a hatchet and smash one's partners head in and mash it into a bloody pudding on the pillow!

Iris Murdoch

#4. I feel sorry for players who are always lying awake at night, brooding over their games.

Magnus Carlsen

#5. Ain't nothin wrong, ain't nothing right and still I sit and lie awake all night.

Bradley Nowell

#6. Oh any sentimental person can cry at night, but when you begin to cry in the morning - to lie awake and cry in the morning - ...

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

#7. The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.

Don DeLillo

#8. All that I have said and done,
Now that I am old and ill,
Turns into a question till
I lie awake night after night
And never get the answers right.

William Butler Yeats

#9. Some designers retain a sense of humour about what they do, but others are deathly serious and have no life outside of it; they're lying awake night after night constructing dresses in their heads.

Helena Christensen

#10. He smiled and extended a hand. "I knew you would do it, ma petite."
"You arrogant son of a bitch." I smashed the shotgun butt into his stomach. He doubled over just enough. I hit him in the jaw. He rocked back. "Get out of my mind!

Laurell K. Hamilton

#11. The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he loves.

Mignon McLaughlin

#12. I find I can get so much done between midnight and 4 a.m. Everything is quiet, no one is disturbing me, and if I go to bed then, I just lie awake thinking of ideas. They are very creative hours for me. One night a week I crash out, though.

Tom Ford

#13. I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.

L.M. Montgomery

#14. I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.

Michael Dirda

#15. A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.

Robert Henri

#16. Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence.

Idries Shah

#17. A soccer game is a Wagner opera. The narrative sets up, the tension builds, the music ebbs and flows, the strings, the horns, more tension, and suddenly a moment of pure bliss, trumpet-tongued Gabriel sings, and gods descend from Olympus to dance - this peak of ecstasy.

Rabih Alameddine

#18. 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

#19. Second thoughts have aborted more dreams than all the difficult circumstances, overwhelming obstacles, and dangerous detours fate ever could throw at you.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#20. So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.

Muriel Spark

#21. I was in the gym working on my triceps, and I was thinking, just as I did the 50-pound pulldown, I am going to be in better shape by the end of the year [2016] than I've ever been in my life. I really just smiled at the notion: Wow, what a thing.

Oprah Winfrey

#22. I am afraid that I do not believe that any body of men can have enough knowledge of the past, the present and the future to establish "development priorities" which presumably means procuring some developments as being good and prohibiting others as being bad.

John James Cowperthwaite

#23. I can't simply adopt strays because they seem winsome.

Rachel Caine