Quotes About Sleeplessness

All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.

His tiredness hurt so much it kept him awake.

I sometimes suffer from insomnia, and one of the first times it ever happened, I was like, 'I don't know what to do with myself,' so I started writing a song, and by morning, it was finished. It was about how I couldn't sleep... I was 14.

I can't sleep, because I'm afraid I'll start dreaming...

Sleep evaded him like an old friend who owed him money.

Jerott, his face frowning with sleeplessness, was looking at Richard, this powerful man with the brilliant grey eyes who had not contemplated bereavement with stoicism but was rebelling, as Sybilla was not rebelling, against what he had found.

The time was already creeping up on three o'clock. Faith had been awake since three this morning. All she could think about right now was walking through her front door, taking off her bra and reading escalator fatality stories until it was dark enough to go to bed.

I was struggling man. I had a stomach ache. I was throwing up, I was just feeling bad. I couldn't sleep.

Because I cannot sleep I make music at night.

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

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.

My first dunk ever was in middle school. We were playing, me and my church friends, and I dunked it, and I swear I could not sleep that night.

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

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.

Every time the telephone rings, my stomach constricts. Long after the euphoria from meth is no longer attainable—Tennessee Williams described the equivalent with alcohol in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: "I never again could get the click"—addicts are agitated and confused, and most stop eating and sleeping. Parents of addicts don't sleep, either.

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.

the drug companies had to get an indication for bipolar disorder and then they had to advertise a conception of bipolar disorder so broad as to be unrecognizable. Antipsychotics were soon being prescribed promiscuously, even by primary care physicians, to patients with garden-variety anxiety, sleeplessness, and irritability.

Por qué inventar el infierno cuando existe el insomnio?

What keeps me up at night? Waking up to a scoop at another newspaper or on TV. I'm probably competitive, almost too much so. I will stay up till the Web sites at night roll over. And if they don't roll over, I'll stay up until it's done. I'll wake up at the crack of dawn, or in the middle of the night even, just to go and check and see.

The night is forever. I can't sleep. The clear moon is so bright, so bright. I almost think I hear a voice call me, and to the empty sky say, Yes?

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

I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

I apparently didn't believe in sleep, either, because I didn't get much of it that night.

You've been lying awake at three o'clock too long, said Barney, shaking her. That's all that's the matter with you. Love you! Oh, don't I love you!