Quotes About Insomnia

I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist.

I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.

I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.

Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind.

My wife told me to stop impersonating a flamingo. I had to put my foot down.

Dear sleep, I know we had problems when I was younger ... but I love you now.

The man who stops advertising to save money is the man who stops the clock to save time.

I'm not addicted to reading. I can quit as soon as I finish the next chapter.

A teenager is someone who is well prepared for a zombie attack but not ready for tomorrow's math test.

My only hobby is laziness, which naturally rules out all others.

Work is for people who don't know how to fish.

INSOMNIA = 1:51 A.M. + ETERNITY + 1:52 A.M. + ETERNITY + 1:53 A.M. + ETERNITY

feels like i'm 'seething' with the inability to sleep…

As anyone who has struggled with insomnia knows, trying to force sleep is at best a hopeless business. Slumber is unimpressed by suitors.

Just because as human beings, what we can't have is what we reply in our head over and over again before we go to sleep.

My attention span is all over the place, and I overthink things. I'm an insomniac.

I hadn't slept in 20 years. I would sleep a couple hours a night, and I went from specialist to specialist and they could never find out why.

Not long ago, in response to a spell of insomnia, I learned some of the principles of meditation, to empty my mind piece by piece. It was like the old game of jacks - cautiously lifting each jack clear of its neighbor until only the empty background remained.

Do you have difficulty sleeping?" "Sometimes not. When I do it's bad, though. I lie there thinking about how everything I've done is a failure, death and failure, and there's no hope for me except being homeless, because I'm never going to be able to hold a job because everyone else is so much smarter.

It is five in the morning. I have woken up without any alarm. I have woken up because the thoughts are so loud, and none of them mean me well.

The reason I know I'm different to other people is I'm awake in the night, like all mythical creatures.

He was always on the verge of sleep, a middle area that provided no rest.

I get restless of the night.

When sleep eludes you, embrace wakefulness, he told himself, and read until dawn.