Quotes About Insomnia

Ich bin sehr müde. Einen zusammenhängenden Schlaf habe ich seit Wochen nicht gehabt. Unglaubhaft, aber ich könnt jetzt einschlafen. Kann ja nichts mehr verschieben, auch den Schlaf nicht. Ungut, übermüdet in den Tod zu gehen.

I didn't want to go to sleep knowing I would just wake up in the morning.

I thought I could hear movement in the kitchen, perhaps a voice murmuring, but it was a matter of urgency that I should get to sleep before two, the hour at which the drought, the refugee camps, the dying planet and all the faults and meannesses of my character would arrive to haunt me.

How dare people sleep, how dare they lie so blankly in the dark?

To live without self-respect is to lie awake some night, beyond the reach of warm milk, Phenobarbital,

There's no animal that sleep-deprives itself like the human.

There are nights where I cannot sleep They happen all the time In these periods, I don't want to exist Wouldn't it be nice to be no one right now? When I'm lying there, I always think of two things Sex and suicide Wouldn't it be nice to be no one right now? Sometimes I lie there and hope that I'll die right then

Sleep is harder to reach and thinner, and sleeping is no longer the Drop into the black pit all oblivion until the alarm clock, no, sleep is thin and fitful and full of memories and reminders and the dark is never dark enough.

If I couldn't sleep, I could read.

I used to think that all great recordings happened at about 3 A.M.

It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.

The child that slumbers within us has become a confirmed insomniac. What is the point of growing up? Some like to let their slips and parapraxes show through, to revel in their strange behaviour: they are absolutely set on having an Unconscious.

The charm of sleepless nights is the idea that tomorrow will not come.

I shall never sleep again. But then—how shall I endure my own company?

Oh, I can't sleep, whatever - it's a huge problem. The comedian's thing is you self-medicate with alcohol and knock yourself out - but obviously, that's not a long-term strategy.

The fact that insomnia is associated with depression suggests that sleep might help us deal with emotionally stressful or otherwise disruptive events.

Because, really, what was worse than lying wide-awake in the dark, watching your life drip away, one irreplaceable minute after another?

No real reason for the lack of sleep, it's a disadvantage of rotating shifts that every so often your body clock just throws up it's hands in despair and goes to sulk behind the sofa – leaving you suffering insomnia and/or intense fatigue.

Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.

Offering advice to an angry person is like congratulating a sleeping insomniac with a slap on the back.

På natten blir det hemska mycket värre än det är.

I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.

Can't sleep 'cause all the dirt make my heart hurt

Some thoughts are too angry to sleep. They lie awake all night and become obsessions.