Quotes About Insomnia

sometimes I'm just up the whole night wishing I weren't. (I do recommend prayer at such times, because often they mean something is in need of resolving.

Insomnia, then, is not just a state of sleeplessness, a matter of negatives. It involves the active pursuit of sleep. It is a state of longing.

In insomnia we encounter the very heart of love's darkness: the essential otherness of the beloved.

Like travel, insomnia is an uprooting experience. You are torn out of sleep like a plant from its native soil, then shaken down so that any clinging vestige of slumber falls away, naked confusion exposed like nerve endings. Sleep, in its turn, is a matter of gravity. It pulls you down, beds you in the earth, burrows you in. In sleep you connect back to the bedrock that provides nourishment and restorative rest.

I began to experience, over the course of the next three months, full-blown insomnia. I'm not talking about the romantic kind, not the sweet sleeplessness one has when one is in love, anxiously awaiting the morn so one can rendezvous with a lover in an illicit gazebo. No, this was the torturous, clammy kind, when one's pillow slowly takes on the properties of a block of wood and one's sheets, the air of the Everglades.

Abdul owned only one cassette tape: Judy Collins's Greatest Hits. I tried sleeping. I tried shutting it out, but, in the end, the soulless trilling and warbling of 'Both Sides Now' slowly ground me down to a state of near-hysterical desperation.

I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions. The more doubts they have the better. People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic—they aren't robots. I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia. I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives.

It was as if I were a little girl again, afraid of shadows in the stucco walls of our hallway; they looked like monsters—were monsters, to me in my rigid insomniac sentinel. But you can never tell with shadows. You have to be vigilant, always, because maybe you're crazy, but maybe you're right.

I never yet knew anyone who could not fall asleep with Richardson being read aloud to him.

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.

I take sleeping-pills, but in vain; for I dream. Often in my dream I faint with distress.

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

What hath night to do with sleep?

I'm too exhausted to sleep

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.

What is that one crucifixion compared to the daily kind any insomniac endures?

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture…

Characteristic of sickness to stay awake when everything sleeps, when everything is at rest, even the sick man.

Exist? o mare, o infinit? leg?tur? între insomnie ÅŸi disperare.

Ce idee la NuÅ£u s?-ÅŸi cumpere televizor! Asta e iadul. Alt sfat: nu citi în pat. Eu m-am obiÅŸnuit s? fac o plimbare în fiecare sear?, cu un ceas înainte de culcare. In sfîrÅŸit: ia cît mai puÅ£ine somnifere. Eu am abuzat de ele la tinereÅ£e ÅŸi ?sta a fost dezastrul vieÅ£ii mele.

His poorly constituted blood has allowed the infiltration of uncertainties, approximations, problems; his wavering vitality, the intrusion of question marks and exclamation points. How define the virus which, eroding his somnolence, has stunned him with insomnia among the universal siesta?

Qu'est-ce qu'une crucifixion unique, auprès de celle, quotidienne, qu'endure l'insomniaque?

If there is so much discomfort and ambiguity in lucidity, it is because lucidity is the result of the poor use to which we have put our sleepless nights.

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?