Quotes About Insomnia

I get a little restless. Who doesn't?' 'Toss and turn?' 'Toss,' I said. 'Good.' 'Good.

This was why she could not sleep. She could not say the day was over. She had no sense that any day was ever over.

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.

Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... without the satisfaction.

It's no good. I've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour, and I can't. Writing here is a sort of drug. It's the only thing I look forward to. This afternoon I read what I wrote... And it seemed vivid. I know it seems vivid because my imagination fills in all the bits another person wouldn't understand. I mean, it's vanity. But it seems a sort of magic... And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did

return trips, to this day...are simply invitations to dull trances or leaden slumber

Acting might bring on emotional exhaustion, but writing tired your brains out. Writing led to depression and insomnia and walking around all day with a haggard look.

Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence.

Getting really fed up of not being able to sleep properly. Either wake up and can't get back to sleep or I get really vivid dreams.

I am shattered but so fed up with not being able to sleep due to being ridiculously uncomfortable that I'm staying up as long as possible.

Después hicieron acto de presencia las lágrimas, y se derramaron, y las constelaciones se pusieron a girar sobre nosotros, y la luna empezó a trazar su fatigoso curso. Yacimos acongojados e insomnes mientras transcurrían las horas.

To begin cooking duck at one in the morning is one of the finest acts of madness that can be undertaken by a human being who is not mad.

Do dead people like music? I hope they listen to mine if they do, in their coffins, in the cold underworld, between the mind and the body in an insomniac wall of sleep.

Lider du av sömnlöshet eller jet-lag? - Ingetdera, jag låg och tänkte.

The prevention and treatment of unhealthy sleep habits in infants and young children is important, because if those habits are uncorrected, they will persist. There is no automatic correction. Children do not simply outgrow these problems. Adult sleep specialists commonly see incurable adult insomniacs, chronically disabled from sleepiness and dependent on sleeping pills, who correctly describe themselves as never sleeping well as children.

strife. Family conflict at ages 7–15 years predicts insomnia at age 18, and marital strife at age 9 months predicts a child's sleep problems at 4½ years.

A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.

A man who, night after night, falls like a lump of lead upon his bed, and ceases to live until the moment when he wakes and rises, will such a man ever dream of making, I do not say great discoveries, but even minute observations upon sleep? He barely knows that he does sleep. A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness. A memory without fault is not a very powerful incentive to studying the phenomena of memory.

What hath the night to do with sleep?

I ain't sleepin'. I got too much to puzzle with.

Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.

Every single night I'm nervous.

I need to sleep, but fear to dream.

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.