Quotes About Insomnia

Thinking, thinking—a wheel I cannot stop; pure want of sleep it is that turns it.

Trust = telling someone about the things that make you sleepless.

How many more nights and weird mornings can this terrible shit go on? How long can the body and the brain tolerate this doom-struck craziness? This grinding of teeth, this pouring of sweat, this pounding of blood in the temples… small blue veins gone amok in front of the ears, sixty and seventy hours with no sleep.

Csakhogy egy ilyen város mindig kitermeli az álmatlanjait; maga is álmatlan szervezÅ'dés, örökké éneklÅ' vezetékekkel; sok millió lakója között mindig akadnak olyanok, akik kifelé bámulnak az ablakon; nem pedig alszanak, mint szoktak. És minden éjjel mások. Hogy most éppen Å', és nem más, az merÅ' véletlen.

This was insomniac memory, not a dream. Frowning with concern, she took his free hand in hers and began to lead him across the room.

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.

I couldn't sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.

My mother doesn't need much sleep. At any hour of the night, you'd wake up, and she'd be reading. She'd read five, six books a week. When we went on sailing trips, she'd bring a suitcaseful for the week. Even then, her office would have to send more.

Sleep is a curse. A curse I must live with.

I hate it when my foot falls asleep during the day, because that means it's going to be up all night.

Did you sleep well?" "No, I made a couple of mistakes.

I hate it when my leg falls asleep. I know that means it's going to be up all night.

After what I seen today, I'll never sleep again.

I get my most creative sort of energy after a show. So I love to go back to the hotel and compose new material. Generally in a rush, exactly. I have to get it out somehow, otherwise I can't sleep, you know.

Though sleep was dearly needed, it was not welcomed, for even in sleep I was tormented.

What happens is my mind starts to go in circles, thinking and thinking, and then I can't sleep. And once a couple of days go by, if you haven't slept, you start to get sick. You can't eat. You start to cry. It just feeds on itself.

You can lie awake at night and think; the quality of insomnia depends entirely on what you decide to think of. Can you decide to think? - Yes, you can.

I have slept so many times you might think I would really be awake by now

WHEN I FIRST CAME to the Sahara I was afraid of the night. For some, night means more work, for others dissipation, for still others insomnia, boredom. For me now it's quite different. Night is first of all rest, real rest. At sunset a great serenity sets in, as though nature were obeying a sudden sign from God.

No tenía sueño, ni ganas de tentarlo.

I've never been one for naps. What I go for is insomnia elevated to an art form. I'll catch up on sleep when I die.

Miért nevezik inszomniának, mikor valójában a lelkiismeretrÅ'l beszelnek?

The worst thing about sleepless nights was the feeling of running in a hamster cage, at least mentally. The same thoughts, over and over . . .

When you're in bed and unable to sleep, the best thing to do is to go back to your breathing.