Quotes About Insomnia

You swallow a bottle of sleeping pills but they don't work.

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.

Sometimes in dreams there are visions of the past. For that reason Alice Prentice had always welcomed sleep, but she suffered an insomniac's dread of the time just before sleeping, the act of falling asleep itself, the perilous twilight of semi-awareness when the mind must struggle for coherence, when a siren or a cry in the street is the very sound of terror and the ticking of the clock is a steady reminder of death.

Sleep was like sex. The less you had, the more you craved it

Except he'd been wrong about that. There was a monster in the lake. It had grabbed Hassan by the ankles, dragged him to the murky bottom. I was that monster. That was the night I became an insomniac.

geceleri yata?a uzan?r ama uyuyamazd?m. nefret edecek birsürü ?ey gelirdi akl?ma, ama sonunda yine kendimden nefret ederdim.

It's not so hard to figure out why I'm not sleeping. What I can't figure out is why everybody else is sleeping.

If you're having trouble sleeping at night, don't count the sheep; talk to the shepherd.

Certain kinds of knowledge rob people of their sleep.

Whenever his eyes happen to graze Mindy's, she senses shame on her behalf: because of her prettiness; because she sleeps with Lou; because she keeps telling herself this trip constitutes anthropological research into group dynamics and ethnographic enclaves, when really what she's after is luxury, adventure, and a break from her four insomniac roommates.

You should try getting some sleep." Sloane frowned. "Giraffes only sleep four and a half hours a day." -Sloane

I'm always amazed by people and their sleep. I wouldn't ever sleep if I didn't have to.

I feel sorry for everyone in this town who's sleeping.

The paradoxical situation with a vast number of people today is that they are half asleep when awake, and half awake when asleep, or when they want to sleep.

her insomnia likely had roots in her fear of losing control.

bear the deep conviction that if, at the beginning of this century, the Orient does not manage to wake up, the West soon will not be able to sleep any more.

but nothing feels as bad as the booing inside your own head during those ten minutes before you fall asleep.

He also stayed awake all night many times in the neon-lit insomnia of cities where the all-nighter is culturally certified and commercially mandated. But the all-nighter of the bohemian heroes was something else: it was spiritual work, the night shift; they stayed awake so the demons that haunt the world wouldn't get them in their sleep.

I'll get into a pattern where I start sleeping only between 12 and 3.30, and go for weeks like that.

Many of depression's symptoms - exhaustion, insomnia, nausea, headaches, weight loss, weight gain - are physical ailments.

I keep very weird hours. I never know when I'm going to get an idea.

I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos.

I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

The insomnia just perpetuates. I have one bad night, then I get it in my head that I can't sleep. I've been trying these meditation tapes - there are a couple on Spotify - and they're meant to calm you. But they don't seem to work.