Quotes About Insomnia

And Cindi came up with a new trick to use if she was having trouble falling asleep: "Counting backward from 300 by threes—it works like magic and you never get below 250." On the few occasions when I feel too wired to sleep, my panacea is a hot bath with my favorite bath salts.

I discovered I was infected with a terrible suspicion of myself and my inability to stay still, my dreadful insomnia of place.

When I'm in L.A., I kind of go crazy in the middle of the night when it's, like, completely quiet.

It's hard to fall asleep after a game. I often go to sleep at 4 A. M. because I'm thinking about the game and my mind is racing.

It's simply that older adults don't seem to be able to generate sleep efficiently, and that's why they're not getting it.

Todavía no eres libre, todavía buscas la libertad. Tu búsqueda te ha vuelto insomne y te ha desvelado demasiado. Quieres subir a la altura libre, tu alma tiene sed de estrellas. Pero también tus malos instintos tienen sed de libertad. Tus perros salvajes quieren libertad; ladran de placer en su cueva cuando tu espíritu se propone abrir todas las prisiones72.

Everyone else reached the Shores of Sleep, but I remained oceans away.

But sleep was busy elsewhere

I gathered them on my stomach and waited for sleep. But sleep was busy elsewhere.

I'm a very deep thinker, and I find it very hard to switch off at night, so I usually have to put on an episode of 'Friends' or listen to some music before bed.

I have major sleeping problems. I'd rather be up thinking about things than actually sleeping.

Night is the mother of thoughts.

I have a really hard time falling asleep. I have a lot of thoughts running through my head.

Why not?" I said. "The night is young." I was lying. The night was old and chilly, with a slow heartbeat. The tires whined like starved cats on the fog-sprinkled black-top. The neons along the Strip glared with insomnia.

Sleep deprivation has been shown to impair the processing of glucose, which produces immediate consequences for self-control—and, over the long term, a higher risk of diabetes.

When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.

Just before I fell asleep, I had a moment of panic ...

When I can't sleep, I don't count sheep. I count lovers. And by the time I reach 38 or 39, I'm asleep.

I don't sleep much. It takes me a long time to fall asleep. I'm a bit of an insomniac but, when I fall asleep, I don't ever want to wake up.

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

She slept deeply, but as usual, she did not dream. It had been months; none of them was dreaming anymore. [p. 227]

He tried to sleep, but his head was filled with the faces of lunatics, their palsied hands, their shattered eyes.

He'd tried to sleep, too, but that was an elusive bitch who had no use for him tonight.

Because, really, what was worse than lying wide-awake in the dark, watching your life drip away, one irreplaceable minute after another?