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Quotes About Insomnia

I try not to take sleep medication.
~ Michael Rosbash
I'm an owl; I'm up. I probably go to sleep during the time when most people wake up. The first half of the day, you might not catch me.
~ Jeremih
I've always been a night owl.
~ Blake Lively
I'm suffering from the worst anxiety. I wake up reeling from panic at 4 A.M.
~ Whitney Wolfe Herd
Walking, working, barely breathing My thoughts, far away Heart aching, mind racing Sleep does not come easily, nor last long....
~ Peter Winstanley
We now understand that women and men are not "crazy" or "defective" when, in response to trauma, they develop post-traumatic symptoms, including insomnia, flashbacks, phobias, panic attacks, anxiety, depression, dissociation, a numbed toughness, amnesia, shame, guilt, self-loathing, self-mutilation, and social withdrawal.
~ Phyllis Chesler
I myself have suffered periodically from hearing voices at night when I'm trying to sleep.
~ Elizabeth George
All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.
~ Julian Barnes
I'm a bat. All my greatest, creative ideas come at night. So I hardly ever sleep.
~ Jessica White
I'm a bit of an insomniac. I'm always thinking. I've got a lot of ideas for lyrics and shows. I have a notepad by the side of the bed and voice recorders around the house.
~ Kid Rock
His tiredness hurt so much it kept him awake.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Did you manufacture any Z's?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Temí que no quedara una sola cosa capaz de sorprenderme, temí que no me abandonara jamás la impresión de volver. Felizmente, al cabo de unas noches de insomnio me trabajó otra vez el olvido.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Ebrio de insomnio y de vertiginosa dialéctica
~ Jorge Luís Borges
How the hell is he supposed to sleep when his brain is running a nonstop festival of horror films. First
~ Ã…sa Larsson
Mais vous venez de dire : « La douleur diminue, les souvenirs s'estompent. » L'insomniaque lève les yeux sur Lucas : — Diminuer, s'estomper, je l'ai dit, oui, mais non pas disparaître.
~ Ágota Kristóf
Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win.
~ Adam Young
sleep comes hard. I'd rather lie awake and read.
~ Adrienne Rich
My sets are not peaceful. It's a beautiful catastrophe. I am running around like a headless chicken. I don't sleep because I am writing. It's manic.
~ Michaela Coel
Your real dream is not the dream you see in sleep. Your real dream is the one that does not allow you to sleep.
~ Prof.Salam Al Shereida
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
I've realised I need a gnawing, nagging, anxious doubt when I wake at 4 A.M.
~ Catherine Tate
Without question, I wake every night five times.
~ George Clooney
I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.
~ Marilyn Monroe