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Quotes About Insomnia

Por mais impiedoso e arrogante que o poder possa parecer, seus detentores são meros mamíferos que evacuam e anseiam e que sofrem de insônia e insegurança. Esses mamíferos são também necessariamente vaidosos ao extremo e muitas vezes desejam ser amados tanto quanto desejam ser temidos.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Ruthless and arrogant though power can appear, it is only ever held by mere mammals who excrete and yearn, and who suffer from insomnia and insecurity.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Like old men and like the majority of thinkers, he slept little.
~ Victor Hugo
Sleep comes more easily than it returns.
~ Victor Hugo
Quando molte sensazioni hanno agitato la giornata, quando qualcosa preoccupa la mente, ci si addormenta, sì, ma non ci si riaddormenta. Il sonno può venire, ma difficilmente può ritornare.
~ Victor Hugo
upset. Perhaps it is because you have not been sleeping
~ Kristin Hannah
Another intruder that plagues our good health is sleeplessness. Insomnia is much like constipation in that stress or nervous tension can bring it on or aggravate it until there's almost no coping with it. That's why you find sleeping pills in so many medicine cabinets next to the laxatives.
~ lalanne jack iii
The inner Min starved; she woke in the middle of the night, then lay for hours wondering what was wrong.
~ Lan Samantha Chang
When I can't sleep I count the buckles on my straightjacket.
~ Cathie Linz
Anche in questo siamo uguali. L'unica cosa che ci fa differenti è che tu, quando hai finito di parlare con loro, hai la possibilità di sentirti stanco. Puoi andare a casa e spegnere la tua mente e ogni sua malattia. Io no. Io di notte non posso dormire, perché il mio male non riposa mai." "E allora tu che cosa fai, di notte, per curare il tuo male?" "Io uccido...
~ Giorgio Faletti
Walking, working, barely breathing My thoughts, far away Heart aching, mind racing Sleep does not come easily, nor last long...
~ Peter Winstanley
unfortunate enough to bump into Justine too. She didn't look as if she'd slept much either. He
~ Jacqueline Wilson
1:52 a.m. His favorite nightcap—coffee and Benzedrine.
~ James Ellroy
Sleep is still difficult I sleep for three or four hours a day. Usually sometime in the afternoon. I walk in the cold, keep myself numb. I cry less, and less. (James Frey, pg.88)
~ James Frey
By any objective measure, the modern business of "psychopharmacology"—the use of drugs to treat everything from anxiety and insomnia to schizophrenia itself—has to be judged a failure. Few patients, if any, are cured. The most violent manifestations of mental illness can be controlled, but with what long-term consequences, no one knows.
~ James Gleick
Counting your blessings is a better cure for insomnia than counting sheep - you can fall asleep before you get through half of them.
~ Densey Clyne
If you cannot sleep, sing to your soul.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Sometimes I can't sleep at night because I'm so excited to work on sprinting the next day, because I'm such a bad sprinter.
~ Lauren Gibbs
My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.
~ Sherman Alexie
Sleep is for squares.
~ Henry Rollins
I did not sleep. I never do when I am over-happy, over-unhappy, or in bed with a strange man.
~ Edna O'Brien
It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The only cure for writer's block is insomnia.
~ Terri Guillemets
Haven't slept in so long my memory foam is starting to forget.
~ The Blonde Jon