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Quotes About Insomnia

Nick: "Don't you think maybe a drink would help you to sleep?" Nora: "No, thanks." Nick: "Maybe it would if I took one.
~ Dashiell Hammett
Sleep evaded him like an old friend who owed him money.
~ James Newman
Nothing is lonelier or more disorienting than insomnia
~ Donna Tartt
How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack.
~ Dorothy Parker
I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking.
~ Dorothy Parker
Don't blame you, said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later.
~ Douglas Adams
He continued to lie there, like someone lying awake at four o'clock in the morning, unable to put his mind to rest, but unable to find anything to do with it.
~ Douglas Adams
Now I lay me down to sleep, Try to count electric sheep. Sweet dream wishes you can keep, How I hate the night.
~ Douglas Adams
Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven billion sheep before falling asleep again a second later.
~ Douglas Adams
NO PUEDO DORMIR
~ Douglas Preston
Sometimes you get to the point of being so tired it's impossible to sleep.
~ Alan Russell
After Rilo Kiley broke up and a few really intense personal things happened, I completely melted down. It nearly destroyed me. I had such severe insomnia that, at one point, I didn't sleep for five straight nights.
~ Jenny Lewis
Those five Rogers Cup matches were physically tough, and there were late nights, up until 2 or 3 A.M. - how could I fall to sleep after beating some of my heroes?
~ Denis Shapovalov
It's funny: I can never sleep between shows; I think it's because I don't like to switch the motor off. I'll probably have some chicken or pasta, though never the two together, and maybe go out for a quick wander around.
~ Richard McCabe
I couldn't sleep for nights on end, as my brain felt like there were thoughts colliding within it; I obsessed over small details, from saving pennies and polishing each one of them to washing my clothing over and over in the washing machine.
~ Andy Behrman
More insomniacs!' cried the doctor. 'Come in, come in".
~ Rachel Hartman
Something was causing me not to be able to sleep, and then after a while your brain doesn't want to turn off and go to sleep. And so it was constant battle with that. But as soon as I had the neck surgery, I started sleeping again.
~ William Regal
Do you think too long a period of nightlessness," mused Sandra, "could drive you insane, the way they say sleeplessness can?
~ Julia Glass
I've tried counting sheep like everyone recommends, but what tends to happen is that my brain thinks it's seen the same sheep twice and that messes up my count, and when I think there's no more sheep to count, another three will come running along and startle me. Or just as I think I've finished counting, an elephant comes running in. By this point I'm wide awake.
~ Karl Pilkington
For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of any interest to me.
~ Antonella Gambotto-Burke
I'm very much a night person. Morning is a thing I only experience because I have to.
~ Patrick Stump
When you walk up five flights of stairs at four in the morning, there's definitely a hooker involved.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.
~ Namie Amuro
It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning.
~ Charles Bukowski