Insomnia Quotes

Insomnia Quote of the day

I think the most common cause of insomnia is simple; its loneliness.

Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars.

I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.

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.

I'm so tired, but I can't sleep. Standing on the edge of something much too deep.

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

The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.

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.

I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.

Oh, insomnia! Ah, well, I know a good cure for it... Get plenty of sleep.

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

There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons.

There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.

Call me a sinner, Mock me maliciously: I was your insomnia, I was your grief.

O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse.

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

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.

Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.

Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.

You lack the season of all natures, sleep.

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

Laugh and the world laughs with you!

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

I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.

I have no problem with my hips - I can still do the things that I used to do. I can run, I'm just not the fastest person on the field anymore.

The mania started with insomnia and not eating and being driven, driven to find an apartment, driven to see everybody, driven to do New York, driven to never shut up.

The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.

Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.

O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights!

His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours.

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

The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room.

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

Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest.

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.

Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.