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Quotes About Insomnia

Then perhaps you shouldn't sleep. The imagination has terrifying power.
~ Dean Koontz, Brother Odd
Chris explained. Beginning on the day after Regan's birthday—and following Howard's failure to call—she had noticed a sudden and dramatic change in her daughter's behavior and disposition. Insomnia. Quarrelsome. Fits of temper. Kicked things. Threw things. Screamed. Wouldn't eat. In addition, her energy seemed abnormal. She was constantly moving, touching, turning
~ William Peter Blatty
I have not slept one wink.
~ William Shakespeare
Sleep shall neither night nor dayHang upon his pent-house lid.
~ William Shakespeare
O polish'd perturbation! golden care!That keep'st the ports of slumber open wideTo many a watchful night!
~ William Shakespeare
A disruption of the circadian cycle—the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday life—seems to be involved in many, if not most, cases of depression; this is why brutal insomnia so often occurs and is most likely why each day's pattern of distress exhibits fairly predictable alternating periods of intensity and relief.
~ William Styron
No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
~ Wislawa Szymborska
It was impossible to sleep. Anxiety stopped me from falling asleep; depression woke me up.
~ David Walliams
True dreams are those which keep you awake at night and drive you nuts during the day.
~ Debasish Mridha
It's hard to sleep when you have thirty two million quids worth of stolen jewellery hidden under the mattress.
~ Peter Houston
Tengo un cansancio infinito y, al tiempo, ninguno. Podría dormir diez días seguidos y no dormir en lo que me queda de vida. Podría quedarme dormido en esta mesa y permanecer insomne días enteros, tumbado en mi litera. Podría soñar despierto e imaginar la realidad como un sueño.
~ Javier Reverte
shook. I was used to getting a bad night's sleep, not to getting no sleep. I sat, ate, tried to hold myself together.
~ Jay Giles
Bad sleepers! This is a new insult, and I intend to take out a patent for it, being the first to have discovered that it is an excommunication in itself.
~ Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
It's four A.M.! Who goes to bed this early!?
~ Jeff Hirsch
Also, I could finally sleep. And this was the real gift, because when you cannot sleep, you cannot get yourself out of the ditch--there's not a chance.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
When you cannot sleep, you cannot get yourself out of the ditch – there's not a chance.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I couldn't sleep in my dream.
~ Alice Notley
Pourquoi a t'on inventé l'enfer alors qu'il existe l'insomnie ?
~ Amelie Nothomb
Por qué inventar el infierno cuando existe el insomnio?
~ Amelie Nothomb
I'm a light sleeper, but so long as I'm wearing earplugs, I sleep well.
~ Britt Ekland
Ambien is one of the most prescribed pills in America. A lot of people take it every night or several times a week or several times a month in order to help them sleep. I'm just not one of those people. That's the perception of me. But that's not the reality.
~ Kerry Kennedy
I bounce off four walls, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, because I only sleep those four hours a day.
~ Casper Van Dien
I buy way too many cookbooks and read food blogs at night when I can't sleep.
~ Lauren Kate
but more frequently I was finding myself sleepless and he was running out of lullabies
~ Richard Siken