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Quotes About Insomnia

Insomnia is the wish to be immortal, granted by an ass.
~ Kathryn Davis
I could lay here and read all night. I am not able to fall asleep without reading. You have the time when your brain has nothing to do so it rambles. I fool my brain out of that by making it read until it shuts off. I just think it is best to do something right up until you fall asleep.
~ Kaye Gibbons
It's not the sort of night for bed, anyhow.
~ Kenneth Grahame
I tried to lure sleep to me, but she slowly shook her raven tresses and would not come back.
~ Kenneth Oppel
He knew he wouldn't sleep. Couldn't. The things Larry had told him swirled around the dark ceiling, darting in and out of his consciousness. He hoped strands of what he knew would somehow miraculously connect and he'd sit bolt upright with an epiphany and suddenly know the connections as well as the answers. Didn't happen.
~ C.J. Box
I try to sleep myself, but my occupied mind is holding my tired body hostage.
~ Camron Wright
Sleeplessness creates a vicious negative spiral with bipolar, causing sleeplessness and sleeplessness contributing to bipolar. Sleep management is important in trying to hinder the progression of bipolar disorder.
~ Candida Fink
There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.
~ Iris Murdoch
Oh, hell! I can't sleep!" "Neither can I! But I might as well try—as a matter of principle."   Twelve hours later, sleep was still just that—a matter of principle, unattainable in practice.
~ Isaac Asimov
I tried and tried to sleep, lulled by the movement, the purring of the motor, and the snores of the other passengers, but it's never been easy for me to sleep, and much less now, when I still have residues of the wild life running through my veins.
~ Isabel Allende
La tristeza se manifestaba en las noches en vela, la ropa oscura, el deseo de vivir en una cueva de anacoreta y la ausencia de inspiración.
~ Isabel Allende
I've had insomnia since I was a little kid and I never sleep well. Sometimes I sleep very badly and sometimes I sleep slightly badly. I get it especially when I'm on tour because you cross a lot of time zones, and I'm not very adaptable.
~ Moby
If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill.
~ Ethel Merman
When I'm awake, I don't want to go to sleep. I don't want the hassle of turning the light off, putting my head down and then all the thoughts. I don't want al those thoughts... thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts and I'm: 'I don't want this'. I have to knock myself out to go to sleep.
~ Robbie Williams
TV is my sleeping pill.
~ David Janssen
I will make myself sick on films, just because you want everything to be right. I can't sleep if something hasn't been done or is out of place.
~ Sandra Bullock
No soy una persona de trato fácil en las mejores circunstancias, pero soy todavía peor cuando no duermo.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Por qué no duermes un poco? -me dice. Porque no puedo soportar las pesadillas, no sin ti, pienso.
~ Suzanne Collins
My slumbers are filled with disturbing
~ Suzanne Collins
My slumbers are filled with disturbing dreams.
~ Suzanne Collins
He doesn't like to sleep when it's dark out.
~ Suzanne Collins
Maybe he just sees me as I really am. I have to get some sleep.
~ Suzanne Collins
Most people imagine music playing in their heads, but some hallucinate music; some cannot sleep because of the soundtrack in their mind.
~ Floyd Skloot
I didn't want to dream of you anymore, so I quit sleeping.
~ Efdal Korkmaz