Quotes About Insomnia

There was a certain bitter humor to lying awake wishing for something one cannot have, after lying awake not so long ago wishing for the opposite thing that one had just lost. Not a very useful sort of adaptability, this, she thought.

Tell me how you talk for a minute without using the letter A." Delfuenso said, "You were asleep." McQueen said, "I haven't slept for seven months." Reacher said, "Easy. Just start counting. One, two, three, four, five, six. And so on. You don't hit a letter A until you get to a hundred and one. You can even do it real fast and still get nowhere near ninety-nine inside a minute.

Do you know who is up at four in the morning? Dairy farmers. Paperboys. Lunatics.

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

Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence.

He did not sleep well.

Difficulties with concentration are correlated with sleep impairment, especially insomnia, arising from hypervigilance. The insomniac person is always on alert, which increases his or her stress-hormone levels and heart rate, and turns on the sympathetic nervous system. One of the roles of histamine, released in response to stress, is to ensure that you're wide-awake. These processes make relaxation and sleep difficult.

How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.

I havent slept in days. And me and my latest girl agreed to go our separate ways.

My life has been regulated by insomnia.

It was an elegant trap, one which had claimed the sanity of many libriomancers over the years. As you exhausted yourself physically and mentally, your judgment eroded as well, leading you to make mistakes when you could least afford them. Sleep was the best cure. Naturally, insomnia was a common side effect of magic use.

I sit on hard chairs — soft ones spread the hips. Unlike Oscar Levant, who said he never stood when he could sit and never sat when he could lie down, I stand and walk as much as I can. I don't think any of us walk enough, especially those of us who have desk work to do. When the work is done, the day is gone, and we take the shortest (sitting-down) route home. A walk before bedtime is the best cure for insomnia as well as a way of getting a little more exercise.

Edward spends every night reaching for unconsciousness as if it were a rock in the middle of a river, while a fierce current pulls him away. His fingertips sometimes

O, insomnia, you've come to me anew! And your expression is, like always, frozen. Tell me, beauty, tell me, outlaw - you, Don't you like the songs I've chosen?  

Insomnia is when both sides of the pillow feel hot

I cannot close my eyes, fear stands over me instead of sleep.

She married the prince and all went well except for the fear — the fear of sleep. Briar Rose was an insomniac... She could not nap or lie in sleep without the court chemist mixing her some knock-out drops and never in the prince's presence.

It is snowing and death bugs me as stubborn as insomnia.

Sleep without pills? impossible. take pills! death? have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.

Light is a profound degrader of our sleep.

The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.

I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.

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

He was born sleepless, without a talent for rest or the desire for it.