Quotes About Sleep Deprivation

#1. Sleep deprivation is physically miserable and creatively cathartic, as internal landscapes rise up from their dormant ashes.

Jaeda DeWalt

#2. Sleep deprivation is the most common brain impairment.

William C. Dement

#3. Stress and sleep deprivation had a funny way of liberating the mind from previously held truisms, replacing them with a more compliant desperation.

David Z. Hirsch

#4. I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.

Cate Blanchett

#5. ...in the midst of the tumult, part ecstasy and part panic, into which all first-time mothers are thrown by sleep deprivation and headlong identity realignment.

Anne Fadiman

#6. Everybody always talks about it, about how you don't know love until you meet your baby, and you really feel that. There are no words. It was a really wonderful surprise. And there is no way to prepare yourself for the sleep deprivation and what comes with it.

Hilary Duff

#7. As soon as you lay down, that's when the most bizarre things start coming out of her mouth. 'Goodnight, baby.' 'Do you think we were together in a past life?' 'Yeah, and I died of sleep deprivation. Go to bed.' 'Don't you feel like we're soul ... '

Adam Ferrara

#8. SOME OF THE HARDEST parts of parenting never change - like sleep deprivation, which, according to researchers at Queen's University in Ontario, can in some respects impair our judgment as much as being legally drunk. (There's something wonderfully vindicating about this analogy.)

Jennifer Senior

#9. Sullen monosyllabism, a sure sign of sleep deprivation.

Jim Butcher

#10. There's no doubt in my mind that sleep deprivation is the hidden number one cause of arguments and cybersex. I'm convinced that countless good relationships end and bad ones begin because of chronic fatigue. Never make a major decision until after you've taken a nap.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#11. Sleep debt is cumulative. Studies have shown that performance on tests of alertness and thinking continues to get worse the longer sleep deprivation lasts. In other words, we do not adapt to sleep deprivation.

Lawrence J. Epstein

#12. The current male-dominated model of success - which equates success with burnout, sleep deprivation, and driving yourself into the ground - isn't working for women, and it's not working for men, either.

Arianna Huffington

#13. There is no such thing as sleep deprivation, there is only caffeine deficiency.

Richard Simmons

#14. Sleep deprivation made his life an imaginary thing, his days a ribbon floating aimlessly in water. - Whelk

Maggie Stiefvater

#15. Apparently, even in the GDR, sleep deprivation amounted to torture, and torture, at least of minors, was not official policy.

Anna Funder

#16. I looked on YouTube for sleep deprivation and there were videos of people experimenting with staying awake for a while. You saw all the different stages.

Rooney Mara

#17. We're beginning to realize that drowsiness or sleep deprivation, fatigue, is beginning to outstrip alcohol as a cause of accidents in transportation, particularly on the highway

William C. Dement

#18. Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You'll realize this as soon as they're born, and they start using sleep deprivation to break you.

Ray Romano

#19. 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

#20. Sleep deprivation is an illegal torture method outlawed by the Geneva Convention and international courts, but most of us do it to ourselves.

Ryan Hurd

#21. Sleep deprivation can lead to insanity, and insanity can lead to buying sweatshirts at Abercrombie

Casey Rand

#22. Sometimes it is difficult to remember, but other times it is very easy to remember. Sleep deprivation is the killer.

Andy Samberg

#23. The sleep deprivation after children is so real. I liken it to what it must feel like to walk on the moon and to cry the whole time because you had heard that the moon was supposed to be great but in truth it totally sucks.

Amy Poehler

#24. Losing even a single night's sleep can precipitate a manic episode in people with bipolar disorder who have otherwise been stable (Malkoff-Schwartz et al. 1998). In parallel, sleep deprivation can improve the mood of a person with depression, although only briefly (Harvey, 2008).

David J. Miklowitz

#25. So when you go to sleep at night, if you're someone who hasn't had any sleep deprivation, you have a very normal sleep pattern, what we tend to see is that, in adults, they go to bed and they start off by going into the deeper stages sleep.

Shelby Harris

#26. We see ourselves as inhabiting a complex social world that has some capitalist things going on in it as well as some socialist ones, some communist ones, and many where economics are not separated out of the broader fabric of life (such as sharing and gift giving, and mutual support).

Cynthia Kauffman

#27. It should be remembered that the president cannot, by executive order, do things that affects the public at large unless there is some Congressional basis for it.

Edwin Meese

#28. I thought calming thoughts and visualized serene places. Eventually, i found myself drifting along the frenetic edges of my mind. The Sandman was nowhere to be found, as i slipped further away from sleep.

Jaeda DeWalt

#29. Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Lillian Gordy Carter

#30. Things can change. Life is all a learning process.

Mike Tyson

#31. Once water charges are in place they will only go up. This has been the history of all these charges

Gerry Adams

#32. Sleep's what we need. It produces an emptiness in us into which sooner or later energies flow.

John Cage

#33. The attacks in Jordan, just like those before it in Indonesia, Egypt, Spain and the United States, demonstrate that terrorism does not discriminate by race, ethnicity or region. Instead, terrorists indiscriminately target those seeking to live a peaceful, loving and free life.

Allyson Schwartz

#34. I was an only child who was never really good at anything else. I had no other option. I could write; I wanted to write; I wrote. Otherwise, I was unemployable.

Susan Hill

#35. I'm grateful to have the chance to be inspired by the incredible artists that are out there.

Sara Bareilles

#36. You don't manage priorities, you have them.

David Allen

#37. Andrew kissed him like this was a fight with their lives on the line, like his world stopped and started with Neil's mouth.

Nora Sakavic

#38. The resolve to diet is most easily summoned on a full stomach.

Terry Rossio

#39. To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others.

David Whyte

#40. The most haunting time at which to see them is at the turn of the moon, when they utter strange wailing cries; but the lagoon is dangerous for mortals

J.M. Barrie