Quotes About Insomnia

I heard that Stephen King doesn't sleep well, ... so I gues that he doesn't sleep well from his imagination. If I had the same imagination I won't sleep too!

I ain't sleeping. I'm just taking a good look at the insides of my eyelids.

My friend says she's smart. She reads a book to fall asleep.

I followed shortly after, but even a long, hot shower didn't bring on the sleep I'd really hoped for. Quite simply, I had too much on my mind. So much that it raced from one problem to another, in a vicious cycle that had me tossing and turning in between small bouts of sleep with vivid, strange dreams. I awakened feeling more tired than I had when I'd gone to bed, and that was saying a lot given the day I'd had before.

The hollows around her eyes were darkly glamorous, her mouth sullen: she had the beauty of an insomniac.

es egoísta el insomnio.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

Estado peligroso de fatiga, insomnio y palpitaciones cardíacas. Me siento muerta, mejor dicho, un peso muerto, algo enormemente pesado, no mi cuerpo sino esto que se llama yo. Hasta cuando me llaman por mi nombre, hasta cuando dicen Alejandra, me siento caer sin fuerzas para sobrellevar mi nombre y con muchas menos fuerzas, aún, para responder a la llamada.

I cannot sleep a wink.

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

It's such a waste, sleep. You're just lying there.

Sleep is a waste of time.

I would prefer to stay up and watch the stars than sleep.

Insomniacs tend to fall into two general categories - those who give up and those who don't. I don't. I refuse to admit defeat by turning on the light. I will not try to read or watch a movie, thank you. Productivity is a crutch of the weak.

It's hard to sleep with both eyes closed in this business. It's a lot more mental than people think.

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'm not very good at going to sleep, and that's probably my worst problem. I don't need much more than seven and a half hours, but I probably get six. I take all my problems to bed with me and fret. I can't switch off.

I have the inability to stop thinking and switch off from work at night, which causes a lot of sleeplessness.

Cómo conciliar el sueño cuando lo mejor sería morirse.

I had slept nothing all night, making ghosts for myself, filling my mind with them and giving myself pale frights. All the ghosts had a different punishment for me, some of them shocking indeed.

Decreased sleep is both a symptom of mania and a cause, but I didn't know that at the time, and it probably would not have made any difference to me if I had.

Angst. Fear. Stark, gut-twisting terror. It didn't make for an easy sleep.

She knew she was not going to sleep, as surely as she knew she was not going to fly out of the window.

I would love to have the power to stop waking at 3 a.m. every night to check my e-mail.