Top 100 Sleepless Quotes
#1. A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.
Mahatma Gandhi
#2. Don't accommodate complains in your chamber, else you have a sleepless and restless night. Keep them away and fall in love with actions for solution!
Israelmore Ayivor
#3. But who, save the nerve-worn and sleepless, or thinkers standing with hands to the eyes on some crag above the multitude, see things thus in skeleton outline, bare of flesh?
Virginia Woolf
#4. Here comes goodbye, here comes the last time
Here comes the start of every sleepless night
The first of every tear Im gonna cry
Here comes the pain, Here comes me wishing things had never changed
And she was right here in my arms tonight, but here comes goodbye
Rascal Flatts
#5. If it comes to that," retorted Frederica, with spirit, " I am continually shocked by the
things you don't scruple to say to me,cousin! You are quite abominable!"
He sighed. "Alas, I know it! The reflection gives me sleepless nights.
Georgette Heyer
#6. There are times when we should, remember, the strange courage, of the second-rate who refuse to quit, when the nights, are black and long and sleepless, and the days are without, end.
Charles Bukowski
#8. You need not worry or make yourself sleepless about the world; it will go on without you.
Swami Vivekananda
#9. It's surprising how many sleepless nights it takes to become an overnight success!
Christoph Martin
#10. The literature of menopause is the saddest, the most awful, and the most medical of all genres. You're sleepless, you're anxious, you're fat, you're depressed - and the advice is always the same: take more walks, eat some kale, and drink lots of water. It didn't help.
Sandra Tsing Loh
#11. I am thinking of you in my sleepless solitude tonight.
Mariah Carey
#12. My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.
Sherman Alexie
#13. He'll probably wake up having sleepless nights about that one.
Alan Parry
#14. O sleepless as the river under thee, / Vaulting the sea, the prairies' dreaming sod, / Onto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend / And of the curveship lend a myth to God.
Hart Crane
#15. To tell you the truth, sleepless nights are as unusual for me as sumo wrestlers who look good in berets.
Haruki Murakami
#16. You should know that there is present with you the angel whom God has appointed for each man ... This angel, who is sleepless and cannot be deceived, is always present with you; he sees all things and is not hindered by darkness. You should know, too, that with him is God.
Anthony The Great
#17. Trust = telling someone about the things that make you sleepless.
Hillary Frank
#18. I'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in.
Marilyn Hacker
#19. Morals and medicine warred within his breast, and medicine won the day- but I dare say morals may give him a sleepless night.
Georgette Heyer
#20. Water sleeps, and the enemy is sleepless.
Bram Stoker
#21. I'm on page 65 of 368 of Sleepless: I would never dream of killing an excellent tailor, not even to keep a secret that could endanger my life.
Charlie Huston
#22. My highway is unfeatured air, My consorts are the sleepless stars, And men my giant arms upbear My arms unstained and free from scars.
William Ellery Channing
#24. Disequilibrium is often instigated by the will to power, a sleepless drive in the human personality to control others, to force them to do what one wants, or not to do what one opposes.
Ron Suskind
#25. Sleepless people were bound by a wordless solidarity.
Pascal Mercier
#27. Let the snake wait under
his weed
and the writing
be of words, slow and quick, sharp
to strike, quiet to wait,
sleepless.
through metaphor to reconcile
the people and the stones.
Compose. (No ideas
but in things) Invent!
Saxifrage is my flower that splits
the rocks.
William Carlos Williams
#28. Cyphus bears the blue flame. Stercus is in thrall of iron. Ferule chill and dark of eye. Usnea lives in nothing but decay. Grey Dalcenti never speaks. Pale Alenta brings the blight. Last there is the lord of seven: Hated. Hopeless. Sleepless. Sane. Alaxel bears the shadow's hame.
Patrick Rothfuss
#29. Letting go is hard for me. I have spent too many anxious moments and sleepless nights in worry over what would happen if I let go. Much like being part of a search-and-rescue effort, I would find myself always searching for the unexpected spins in life while preparing to rescue the outcome.
Eve M. Harrell
#30. After a sleepless night, the people in the street seem automatons. No one seems to breathe, to walk, Each looks as if he is worked by clockwork: nothing spontaneous; mechanical smiles, spectral gesticulations. Yourself a specter, how would you see others as alive?
Emil M. Cioran
#31. I just want somebody I can have a decent conversation with over dinner." - Tom Hanks, Sleepless in Seattle (1993) 11
Jenn Bennett
#32. When I think I've made an error, it can cause me a sleepless night. But that only happens rarely.
Louis Van Gaal
#33. It's always scary making a film as I never set anything up or ask anyone to do anything, so I worry that we'll find a story. I have to trust that a film will come out of the journey we embark on. I have many, many sleepless nights.
Kim Longinotto
#34. Of course, I'd like to earn Jonathan Ross's money, but I don't have sleepless nights wondering when someone's going to knock on my door with sacks of cash.
Mariella Frostrup
#35. Only upset mentally but are all unbalanced physically. No matter how calm and controlled they seemingly may be, no one can under such circumstances be normal. Their disturbed circulation makes them cold, their distress makes them unstrung, sleepless. Persons they normally like, they often turn from.
Joan Didion
#36. When you're attracted to someone, it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously. So what we think of as fate is just two neuroses knowing that they are a perfect match.
- Sleepless in Seattle
Nora Ephron
#37. I surely remember being in the administration building sitting in long sleepless nights and working with young people to do the right thing. And that is to tell our university, at that time, the University of Chicago, that it was wrong to own and maintain segregated housing. I remember it very well.
Bernie Sanders
#38. After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.
Paulo Coelho
#39. What made drugs perpetually so sexy was the opportunity to be other. Years after he'd figured out that pot only made him paranoid and sleepless, he still got hard-ons at the thought of smoking it. Still lusted for that jailbreak.
Jonathan Franzen
#40. The audience cares what the movie looks like, not about the sleepless night you had worrying about the thing getting developed.
James Gray
#41. I wrestled through many sleepless nights after God became real to me. I can only describe this period of my life as 2 years of mental agony.
C.L. Cagan
#42. A word of advice: If you get the choice between the upper and lower bunks in a cell, choose the lower. Prisons do not turn off their lights at night, and I spent a sleepless night, without a mattress, with a five-hundred-watt bulb shining directly into my eyes.
William Powell
#43. With old and young great sorrow is followed by a sleepless night, and with the old great joy is as disturbing; but you, I suppose, finds happiness more natural and its rest is not disturbed by it.
W. Somerset Maugham
#44. During the sleepless hours of the night
a thought came to me that seemed important. I got up in the dark and wrote it down. In the morning I read: 'I went looking for loneliness. But it found me.
Anna Kamienska
#45. While pensive poets painful vigils keep,
Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
Alexander Pope
#46. Patience takes away lots of stress, regrets, & sleepless nights knowing that all is well at the end of the day if we just wait a little bit.
Assegid Habtewold
#47. Look for me
in sleepless nights,
among the stars,
I'll be your guiding star...
Look for me
in the moments of happiness,
on a green field,
I'll be your joy.
...
Zorica Savron
#48. Like when someone, who has eaten and drunk far too much, vomits it back up again with agonising pain and is nevertheless glad about the relief, thus this sleepless man wished to free himself of these pleasures, these habits and all of this pointless life and himself, in an immense burst of disgust.
Hermann Hesse
#49. The ethical expression for what Abraham did is that he meant to murder Isaac; the religious expression is that he meant to sacrifice Isaac - but precisely in this contradiction is the anxiety that can make a person sleepless, and yet without this anxiety Abraham is not who he is.
Soren Kierkegaard
#50. 'Passione' is a selection of the music moments that have accompanied my youth; a collection of cherished memories, of moments, of fleeting emotions, of sleepless nights.
Andrea Bocelli
#51. Sleepless nd haunted by memories burning me.
As they limped their way from the ashes to safety or eternity.
9/11
Christopher Reel
#52. I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
Charles Kuralt
#53. Better for you to have one sleepless night on earth than millions in hell.
Leonard Ravenhill
#54. Our friendship is made of bendy straws, long midnight letters,
my so-called life marathons, sleepless sleepovers, diner milk shakes, apron strings, a belief in beauty,
sucking helium, and the most trust I've ever felt for anyone, including myself.
David Levithan
#55. In those long and sleepless nights when I'm unable to shake my fears sufficiently, I borrow a biblical epigraph from Dostoyevsky's The Demons: I see my fears being cast into the bodies of wild boars and hogs, and I watch them rush to a cliff where they fall to their deaths.
Twyla Tharp
#56. My mind swirled with memories of the life I had led. The constant struggle to keep up appearances, the pretenses, the smiles that had been met with tears. The long sleepless nights, the loneliness that cloaked my spirit and turned me into a true ghost.
Anchee Min
#57. ... He who thought at last the books would tell him why people couldn't stay, and how their maps unraveled into ink-dissolving roads, while the sleepless boy and hall light stood watch...
Wyatt Prunty
#58. Don't stretch yourself too much with a mortgage. Buy within your means. It's not worth the sleepless nights.
Sarah Beeny
#59. I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.
J. Courtney Sullivan
#60. And at dawn, the drums still beat on the sleepless plain like an unstoppable heart.
Jacques Roumain
#61. but more frequently I was finding myself sleepless and he was running out of lullabies
Richard Siken
#62. There hung a certain colour - somewhat akin to colour of despair in sleepless eyes - in the house and as they'd sit for dinner it protruded the relish out of their mouths.
Ashfaq Saraf
#63. Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.
Emil Cioran
#64. Journeys end in lovers meeting; I have spent an all but sleepless night, I have told lies and made a fool of myself, and the very air tastes like wine. I have been frightened half out of my foolish wits, but I have somehow earned this joy; I have been waiting for it for so long.
Shirley Jackson
#65. We enjoy lovely music, beautiful paintings, a thousand intellectual delicacies, but we have no idea of their cost, to those who invented them, in sleepless nights, tears, spasmodic laughter, rashes, asthmas, epilepsies, and the fear of death, which is worse than all the rest.
Marcel Proust
#66. Love laid his sleepless head
On a thorny rose bed:
And his eyes with tears were red,
And pale his lips as the dead.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#67. Implacable hate, patient cunning, and a sleepless refinement of device to inflict the extremest anguish on an enemy, these things are evil; and, although venial in a slave are not to be forgiven in a tyrant; although
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#68. I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known to few, and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually, and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold.
Howard Lindsay
#69. Before I ever start a job that I'm really excited about, I usually have some sleepless nights or weeks or months. But that anticipation for a person like me ... I don't do so well with a lot of time off.
Lily Rabe
#70. Parker Haas, crying Omaha, and his sleepless Rose.
Charlie Huston
#71. He saw the tension of the face, the speed of the walk, the drunken exhilaration of the body, drunk on the energy of sleepless nights, the proud lift of the head, the clear, steady, ruthless eyes, the eyes of a man who drove himself without pity toward that which he wanted.
Ayn Rand
#72. Poems can get
sleepless too
and become
the loneliest thing
in the universe.
Sanober Khan
#73. 'Sleepless' was a script that had been written by three or four other writers before me, and it never really worked, but it had this amazing ending on the top of the Empire State Building that just worked, no matter what came before it.
Nora Ephron
#74. Her eyes were a rich dark brown that were so deep, they reminded me of my sleepless nights, awake, staring into complete darkness. I felt compelled to look deeper, searching for something inside her, but her soul was covered and her eyes would not show me.
Cristina Martin
#75. And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed with thorns and wet with tears. And lucky may she think herself, if she get another good night's rest in the course of the next three months.
Jane Austen
#76. No one should judge what I've done with my life, not unless they've been in my shoes every horrible day and every sleepless night.
Michael Jackson
#77. Leaning into the wall as if all of the hunger of looking would find the secret of her sleepless unease there.
Ray Bradbury
#78. I'm rather a practical person. I just get on and focus on what I have to do. I just don't get sleepless or suffer from the jitters.
Anna Maxwell Martin
#79. I feel the heaviness of nightmares
even though I am awake.
How weary I am, how sleepless
and hopeless - there is no escape
from the torment
of wishes.
Margarita Engle
#80. ...these sleepless nights, when oddly enough my concentration was high, fueled perhaps by the effort to ignore the all-engrossing threat of bombs and rockets.
Azar Nafisi
#81. Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words exceeds them, but because weariness is the foe of volatility. Oft times insults that would pierce the wakeful simply thud against the sleepless and fatigued.
R. Scott Bakker
#82. Fate will make things right in the end, though only after the work has been done, the tears have been shed and the sleepless nights have been endured.
Nadia Hashimi
#83. Success is not a distant dream,it is a reality for those who sweat to achieve it,enjoy sleepless nights, take calculative steps through the day,and with self introspection keeps it humble with a smile.Then success gets loud with the achiever's mouth shut,while the world celebrates one's victory.
Henrietta Newton Martin
#84. She didn't uncover my eyes until we were in her oversized bathroom. I stared at the long counter, covered in all the paraphernalia of a beauty salon, and began to feel my sleepless night. Is this really necessary? I'm going to look plain next to him no matter what.
Stephenie Meyer
#85. The mind that is full of God is empty of anxiety. Are you troubled, restless, sleepless? Then think of God more!
Max Lucado
#86. Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite.
John Keats
#87. Sleepless nights?
Either you are in love or you are on a mission. For some.... it's the same.
Shikha Kaul
#88. What sets a man writhing sleepless in bed at night is not having injured his fellow so much as having been wrong; the mere injury he can efface by destroying the victim and the witness but the mistake is his and that is one of his cats which he always prefers to choke to death with butter.
William Faulkner
#89. I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.
Werner Herzog
#90. In the long, sleepless watches of the night, A gentle face the face of one long dead Looks at me from the wall, where round its head The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#91. In this sleepless night, as the darkness advances, look up at the sky and somehow remember that somewhere in this wide world, there are always people who love you, and people who need you. Because every person can't go on living alone.
Ai Yazawa
#92. He could imagine the college rejection letters now.
'After learning that one kiss and a sleepless night led you to fail a test, we have decided you are no longer a fit for our institution.
Brigid Kemmerer
#93. I didn't move; I just waited out the night. The school was quiet around me, and I let the silence calm my heartbreak, lull me into a sleepless trance as I stared past my reflection in the dark glass, and whispered, "Happy birthday, Daddy.
Ally Carter
#94. A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns, Bring dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights To him who wears the regal diadem
John Milton
#95. Long is the night for the sleepless. Long is the road for the weary. Long is samsara (the cycle of continued rebirth) for the foolish, who have not recognised the true teaching.
Gautama Buddha
#96. How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all.
W.G. Sebald
#97. Make your life an inspiring story meant to be read in bed during a sleepless night of despair.
Debasish Mridha
#98. My body weeps to live
when you make me believe
that someday I will be dead
soul sleepless in graveyard's bed
Munia Khan
#99. He had sleepless eyes, his mouth a little swollen, the deeply tanned skin somehow burnished. Kestrel thought that she, too, must look like this: polished by desire, the way a river stone holds a luster from having been made so smooth.
Marie Rutkoski
#100. Was it possible to fall for someone you'd met only once and communicated with only through phone, chat, and text? I had sleepless nights wondering, and every time I thought about it, the answer was yes, yes, yes! And I refused to think of it as infatuation.
Claire Betita De Guzman
