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Quotes About Sleepless

Shut up, me," Leo said aloud. "What?" Piper asked. "Nothing," he said. "Long night. I think I'm hallucinating. It's cool." Sitting in front, Leo couldn't see their faces, but he assumed from their silence that his friends were not pleased to have a sleepless, hallucinating dragon driver. "Just joking." Leo decided it might be good to change the subject.
~ Rick Riordan
so that maybe during those sleepless nights, with the drugs and the pain and the exhaustion, the line would blur between what were my memories and what were his.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I have not slept one wink.
~ William Shakespeare
A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by, One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky; I have thought of all by turns, and yet do lie Sleepless!
~ William Wordsworth
He who thought at last the books would tell him why people couldn't stay, and how their maps unraveled into ink-dissolving roads, while the sleepless boy and hall light stood watch...
~ Wyatt Prunty
In the sleepless dark, all things are possible, the worst most likely, all darkness visible
~ Ellen Kushner
I didn't move; I just waited out the night. The school was quiet around me, and I let the silence calm my heartbreak, lull me into a sleepless trance as I stared past my reflection in the dark glass, and whispered, "Happy birthday, Daddy.
~ Ally Carter
Pourquoi a t'on inventé l'enfer alors qu'il existe l'insomnie ?
~ Amelie Nothomb
We're not much of a camping family. When I was in Cub Scouts, we went camping once, and my dad snored the whole time and kept me up. It wasn't that fun.
~ Chandler Riggs
I need to sleep, he thought wearily. But not to dream.
~ Eoin Colfer
I was raised in a strict Southern household in Lexington, South Carolina, and I remember sneaking off to watch 'Pet Cemetery' as a kid. After seeing those animals reincarnate, I screamed and couldn't sleep for weeks, but watched it again and again.
~ Jessica Stroup
I am still awake
~ Jennifer Niven
I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.
~ William Wyler
The trouble with having a conscience, she said to herself, is that it never sleeps.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
He did not sleep well.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Jordan Two, on the other hand, was condemned to a state of being that made the harshest solitary confinement look like a mercy. Condemned to do nothing but think for an eternity, without sleep, and in a state of almost perfect paralysis inside a body whose every blink seemed to take hours to complete. Jordan
~ Douglas E. Richards
All ten years of my trepidations, Each and every sleepless night, I placed them all in a quiet word And I voiced it – in vain, unsure. You walked off and with order restored, My soul was empty and pure. - From "Confusion", Anna Akhmatova, Rosary
~ Anna Akhmatova
All ten years of my trepidations, Each and every sleepless night, I placed them all in a quiet word And I voiced it – in vain, unsure. You walked off and with order restored, My soul was empty and pure. ~ Confusion
~ Anna Akhmatova
Now the pillow's Hot on both sides. A second candle Dies, the ravens cry Endlessly. No sleep all night, Too late to think of sleep… How unbearably white The blind's white deep. Hello, Morning!
~ Anna Akhmatova
He was born sleepless without a talent for rest or the desire for it. --Cecelia Brady about Stahr
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
New York'u sevmeye baÅŸlam??t?m; gecelerinin o canl?, maceraya aç?k havas?; kad?nlar?n, adamlar?n,makinelerin sürekli deviniminin uykusuz gözlere verdiÄŸi doyum hoÅŸuma gidiyordu.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dias são dias, e noites São noites e não dormi... Os dias a não te ver As noites pensando em ti.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I am a terrible sleeper.
~ Matt Smith
Conscience keeps more people awake than coffee.
~ Anonymous