Quotes About Insomnia

All night his mind seemed to skip over the surface of sleep like a stone upon water, never quite breaking the skin. As

insomniac dread that send us prowling the halls to mull over every missed field goal, botched kiss, and embarrassing pratfall of our lives

My guess is, they couldn't sleep, and they had the kind of generous nature that reckons insomnia isn't something you hoard all for yourself, you share it with your friends and loved ones.

After a second pint, I entered a pocket of time in which life seemed good, secure, not threatened by the past or "things to come." I knew I had been living on a kind of sine curve, a rolling wave of ups and downs, now hopeful now doomed, now asleep now insomniac, now cocksure now deeply uncertain. If such a roller coaster of moods and dispositions had taken its toll on me, I thought, imagine what it must have been like for

When I finally lie down, I find sleep elusive. The same thoughts that trouble me during the day are only compounded by the stillness of night.

Midlife and midcareer are when we often start to see the effects of having stockpiled emotion for too long. The body is holding down the emotional fort, and as a result, we can experience many symptoms including anxiety, depression, burnout, insomnia, and physical pain.

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

Things happen or they don't happen, that's all. Nothing is accomplished by sweat and struggle. Nearly everything which we call life is just insomnia, an agony because we've lost the habit of falling asleep. We don't know how to let go. We're like a Jack-in-the-box perched on top of a spring and the more we struggle the harder it is to get back in the box.

Life was a perpetual black fuck about a fixed pole of insomnia.

Las cosas ocurren o no ocurren, y nada más. Nada se realiza mediante el sudor y los esfuerzos. Casi todo lo que llamamos vida es simplemente insomnio, una agonía porque hemos perdido las costumbre de quedarnos dormidos. No sabemos dejarnos llevar. Somos como un muñeco de una caja de sorpresas colocado sobre un resorte y cuanto más esfuerzos hacemos más difícil es volver a la caja.

I still fall asleep with the TV on, because I'm used to falling asleep with people yelling 'Action!' and 'Cut!'

There are whole months at a time when my head is so full of ideas that I wake in the middle of the night and lie in the dark telling myself stories. There are also long, dark nights when I just know I'll never write another word: I'm finished, empty, a husk... Oh dear, yes, twitch, yawn, how I've suffered insomnia for my art.

I don't get to sleep when I'm in New York. Really. I'm living on adrenaline.

I don't sleep very well when I travel. And as a result, I tend to be awake in cities when everyone else is asleep.

If you're a traveling artist, you probably experience insomnia at some point. You need things to be the right temperature, the right light... it's essential.

So I just live with my insomnia. I do crossword puzzles, or wander out to the music room and fool around on the piano, or read. Those late hours when the world is completely still, when the only sound is the rustle of the air in the vents and the wind visiting the trees outside, when the darkness is tucked tight around the house and you feel as life itself the movements of your own consciousness-these are wonderful hours to read. There is no interruption.

I hate it when my foot falls asleep during the day 'cause that means it's gonna be up all night.

The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.

The only time I have problems is when I sleep.

I don't sleep as much as normal people do.

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.

I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.

I am cursed with the inability to sleep on planes - ever.

I can be out very, very late at night because I don't require that much sleep.