Quotes About Insomnia

When I was a kid, I used to love playing football so much that I genuinely wouldn't be able to fall asleep at night.

Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I'm concerned that this will affect the quality. I might have a Scotch to keep me going, but I like to be as awake and as alert as possible.

I don't have a night stand. If I read at night in bed or too close to sleep-time, I lie awake thinking in the dark for hours.

I can't usually sleep if I'm listening to music. It seems to fire up my mind, and I keep engaging with it to see what it's doing.

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.

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.

I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?

Everything is disproportionate in the middle of the night.

My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.

When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord.

You do the best you can, but you don't want to start worrying about your lack of sleep, because it's been found that worrying about lack of sleep is one of the big causes of insomnia

In the middle 1800s, North American doctors frequently diagnosed their patients with a condition they labeled "neurasthenia." It was a catch-all term that described occasional fatigue, insomnia, depression, and achy muscles — in other words, the symptoms of life.

I was through with sleep. I didn't like what it brought me.

Your dreams may seem impossible to someone with insomnia.

I'm kind of an insomniac and watch TV late at night.

It takes me hours to get to sleep. I just lie there waiting, constantly thinking. I used to make lists, but it became addictive.

I get maybe four hours of sleep a night. I'm a little bit crazy.

The most common time I write lyrics is the middle of the night.

I'm one of those people who doesn't understand how it was that I went to bed at 3 o'clock in the morning or what I was doing. Like, I looked at 'Bon Appetit' magazine for three hours for things I'm never going to cook. Or I'm just on Pinterest for no logical reason.

In my own experience as a C.E.O., I would find myself laying awake at 3 A.M. asking questions about my business, and there weren't management books out there that could help me.

I don't sleep at night at all. Making movies is a marathon. I'm a good 100-yard-dash guy.

In the dark the mind runs on like a devouring machine, the only thing awake in the universe.

He tried to read his way into sleep but only grew more wakeful. He read science and poetry. He liked spare poems sited minutely in white space, ranks of alphabetic strokes burnt into paper. Poems made him conscious of his breathing. A poem bared the moment to things he was not normally prepared to notice.