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Quotes About Sleeplessness

No one can predict which of life's vexations insomnia will favour.
~ Ian Mcewan
I couldn't sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.
~ Mordechai Vanunu
And then he wakes up. Sweating. Panting. Always the same. The worst part is not the sleeplessness. The worst part is the general darkness the dream leaves over him, a gray film that clouds over the day. Even his happy moments feel encased, like holes jabbed in a hard sheet of ice.
~ Mitch Albom
It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness
~ Thomas Hardy
Sleeplessness creates a vicious negative spiral with bipolar, causing sleeplessness and sleeplessness contributing to bipolar. Sleep management is important in trying to hinder the progression of bipolar disorder.
~ Candida Fink
I didn't want to dream of you anymore, so I quit sleeping.
~ Efdal Korkmaz
Unable to sleep for the third night in a row, he continued to dwell obsessively on the circumstances of the ship's sinking. He could not get the creature out of his mind.
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
Ko u Sarajevu provodi no? budan u krevetu, taj može da ?uje glasove sarajevske no?i.
~ Ivo Andri?
A new age is approaching, and its advent might make us pray to go back to the days of the trenches. Once the Worldwaker goes off, we will never be able to sleep again.
~ Dean F. Wilson, Worldwaker
When sleep eludes you, embrace wakefulness, he told himself, and read until dawn.
~ Christopher Fowler
Another intruder that plagues our good health is sleeplessness. Insomnia is much like constipation in that stress or nervous tension can bring it on or aggravate it until there's almost no coping with it. That's why you find sleeping pills in so many medicine cabinets next to the laxatives.
~ lalanne jack iii
My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.
~ Sherman Alexie
It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Do you ever do that thing where you lie in bed and you can't sleep so you end up writing out recent conversation you've had? So they look like a play?' Well you should. It's fun. I keep them. Look through them, sometimes.
~ Nick Hornby
Lonely people are always up in the middle of the night.
~ Nicole Krauss
sleep all day. Haven't been sleeping well
~ Nora Roberts
With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
For six months I couldn't sleep. With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Es lo que ocurre en los casos de insomnio. Todo es muy lejano: la copia de la copia de una copia. No puedes tocar nada y nada puede tocarte. El insomnio te distancia de todo.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I miss you when you're not around,' he said. 'I can't sleep when you're not next to me, and I worry a lot about what you're up to.
~ Victoria Laurie
The fear of sleeplessness12 results in a hyper-
~ Viktor E. Frankl
The fear of sleeplessness12 results in a hyper-intention to fall asleep, which, in turn, incapacitates the patient to do so. To overcome this particular fear, I usually advise the patient not to try to sleep but rather to try to do just the opposite, that is, to stay awake as long as possible.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Sleeplessness comes when our thoughts outweigh the night.
~ Terri Guillemets
Only the insomniac looks on with open eyes, like a cadaver who forgot to die.
~ Gyula Krúdy