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Quotes About Insomnia

I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.
~ Tracy Chapman
It was three o'clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
If he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?
~ Eddie Vedder
I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.
~ A. J. McLean
Because I cannot sleep I make music at night.
~ Rumi
I can't sleep without the TV on. It doesn't matter where it is. I don't like silence. My ears ring from loud music.
~ Marilyn Manson
While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
~ Alexander Pope, The Dunciad
Insomnia is the act of pushing through sleep to achieve the art of insane creativity.
~ Todd Stocker
If you cannot sleep, put the sacred energy to use. You can pray, read and write.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
He had to take sleep by surprise. Preparing for bed simply alerted insomnia, brought all the busy thoughts, the renegade remorses and guilts and recriminations.
~ William Browning Spencer
I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed. I was born an insomniac and that's the way I'll die, wasting thousands of hours along the way longing for unconsciousness,
~ David Benioff
I was born an insomniac and that's the way I'll die, wasting thousands of hours along the way longing for unconsciousness.
~ David Benioff
I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed. I was born an insomniac and that's the way I'll die, wasting thousands of hours along the way longing for unconsciousness, longing for a rubber mallet to crack me in the head, not so hard, not hard enough to do any damage, just a good whack to put me down for the night.
~ David Benioff
I was born an insomniac and that's the way I'll die, wasting thousands of hours along the way longing for unconsciousness, longing for a rubber mallet to crack me in the head, not so hard, not hard enough to do any damage, just a good whack to put me down for the night.
~ David Benioff
Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?" "I give." "You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.
~ David Foster Wallace
Some nights I sleep like a baby. Other nights it's, Oh God, I just came up with a bomb shot.
~ Michael Bay
Thank God for sleep! And when you cannot sleep, still thank Him that you live to lie awake.
~ William Arthur Dunkerley
I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.
~ Patti Smith
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
~ Dale Carnegie
I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long.
~ Mitch Hedberg
If you can't sleep, count sheep. Don't count endangered animals. You will run out.
~ Mitch Hedberg
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are a subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who has suffered from insomnia.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch