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Quotes About Insomnia

Needless to say they were usually sleep-deprived.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Although I accepted her thanks graciously and felt good about it in the moment, I had trouble sleeping that night. To this day, I still can't understand why.
~ Neal Shusterman
Some nights I knew that if I slept I would die.
~ Charles Bukowski
too often, the only escape is sleep
~ Charles Bukowski
I have lost my rhythm. I can't sleep. I can't eat. I have been robbed of my filth.
~ Charles Bukowski
I'm not a morning person, I just do my best worrying when I should be asleep.
~ Charles Stross
I'm a bed monster.
~ Natalie Dormer
Days were tough to pass. So, I used to work out in the mornings and sleep during the day. I turned day into night, night into day.
~ Yuzvendra Chahal
Margaret was not dreaming nor was she quite asleep, although the moon looking at her face believed she was. She was experiencing the thing insomniacs dread-- not being awake but the ticky-tacky thoughts that fill in the space where sleep ought to be. Rags and swatches; draincloths and crumpled paper napkins. Old griefs and embarrassments; jealousies and offense. Just common ignoble scraps not deep enough for dreaming and not light enough to dismiss.
~ Toni Morrison
Staring in the darkness, trying to sleep. My body was aching with tiredness. My limbs were numb. My sightless eyes were crazed with light/ I was dying of oblivion, but it wouldn't come. I didn't think I've ever sleep again.
~ Kevin Brooks
I'm going to get even, I swear I will. Mark my words, I'm a pregnant cranky woman with insomnia. I have time to plot my revenge.
~ Kim Gruenenfelder
I'm an insomniac lately. It's one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship]
~ Kristin Hannah
No sé cuántas horas estuve sin dormir, con los ojos abiertos y resecos recogiendo todos los dolores que pululaban, vivos como gusanos, en las entrañas de la casa.
~ Carmen Laforet
I scroll through my own stories in my phone, the ones I write when I can't sleep, when I think about her, about what the fuck happened, when I make like Alvy Singer and try to correct it all with my imagination.
~ Caroline Kepnes
It's not the content of out dreams that gives our second heart its dark color; it's the thoughts that go through our heads in those wakeful moments when sleep won't come. And those are the things we never tell anyone at all.
~ Carolyn Parkhurst
It's not the content of our dreams that gives our second heart its dark color; it's the thoughts that go through our heads in those wakeful moments when sleep won't come. And those are the things we never tell anyone at all.
~ Carolyn Parkhurst
I have never been much at nonverbal communication. Additionally, I don't have much of an attention span, and what I lack in patience I make up for in ambivalence and an inability to sleep.
~ Carrie Fisher
When a man can't sleep, he won't let anybody else sleep either. If he doesn't go off to dreamland the moment his head hits the pillow, he gets frightfully annoyed and won't stay in bed.
~ Carter Dickson
I need to sleep, but fear to dream.
~ George R.R. Martin
Ko u Sarajevu provodi no? budan u krevetu, taj može da ?uje glasove sarajevske no?i.
~ Ivo Andri?
Marissa could not get comfortable in her bed. No matter which way she turned or where she put the pillows, she was irritated. Somehow, her mattress had been filled with rocks, and her sheets had turned into sandpaper
~ J.R. Ward
I just won't sleep, I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.
~ Jack Kerouac
I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.
~ Jack Kerouac
The song 'Tyler Durden' is about the movie 'Fight Club,' so obviously, it's not a personal experience, but I love that song. It's my favorite song.
~ Madison Beer