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Quotes About Sleepless

Disequilibrium is often instigated by the will to power, a sleepless drive in the human personality to control others, to force them to do what one wants, or not to do what one opposes.
~ Ron Suskind
The man was allergic to sleep.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Life doesn't get more real than having a newborn at home.
~ Eric Church
Then at night, we could hardly sleep. This
~ Fred Gipson
Secrets of the past! Who does not wish to keep the past locked in a cage like a ferocious beast? The rich are sleepless for fear of thieves. The respectable have to guard their reputations in the same way.
~ Munshi Premchand
My children have stolen my dreams in a very literal sense. I've lost months in the minutes and hours that Sabine and Zoey have needed me at night, their thin, butterfly-beating hearts pushed against me in the darkness.
~ Alexi Zentner
Je ne sais pourquoi Mon cÅ"ur est inquiet ; Il m'empêche de dormir ; Demain, C'est le printemps !
~ Ry?kan
The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life.
~ Vera Brittain
I remember I played Birmingham and I'd been awake for about a week and I was walking about like a raving lunatic.
~ Gerry Cinnamon
I'm the bad guy on the rest of Jennifer Love Hewitt's 'The Client List,' I'm the bad guy in Renny Harlin's 'Hercules 3D,' and I'm a movie star - finally - on Showtime's new series 'Ray Donovan.' But most importantly, I'm about to be a daddy, so I'm expecting some 'Dark Circles' for real.
~ Johnathon Schaech
We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
~ Maj Sjowall
like when you wake up at night, and the only sounds you hear are the sounds inside your head.
~ Mark Haddon
I'm too exhausted to sleep
~ Ellen Datlow
In the sleepless dark, all things are possible, the worst most likely, all darkness visible. There he lay, as near as comfort, as far as the other side of death, silent and far away in sleep.
~ Ellen Kushner
If there is so much discomfort and ambiguity in lucidity, it is because lucidity is the result of the poor use to which we have put our sleepless nights.
~ Emil M. Cioran
After a sleepless night, the people in the street seem automatons. No one seems to breathe, to walk. Each looks as if he is worked by clockwork: nothing spontaneous; mechanical smiles, spectral gesticulations. Yourself a specter, how would you see others as alive?
~ Emil M. Cioran
If it comes to that, retorted Frederica, with spirit, I am continually shocked by the things you don't scruple to say to me, cousin! You are quite abominable! He sighed. Alas, I know it! The reflection gives me sleepless nights.
~ Georgette Heyer
God forgive us, mother, we are hunting the wrong man! I have not slept any all night. I am now awaiting, at dawn
~ Mark Twain
So here is the thing about being involved in a catastrophic, life-changing event. You think it's just the catastrophic life-changing event that you're going to have to deal with: the flashbacks, the sleepless nights, the endless running over events in your head, asking yourself if you had done the right thing, said the things you should have said, whether you could have changed things, you had done it even a degree differently.
~ Jojo Moyes
So here is the thing about being involved in a catastrophic, life-changing event. You think it's just the catastrophic life-changing event that you're going to have to deal with: the flashbacks, the sleepless nights, the endless running over events in your head, asking yourself if you had done the right thing, said the things you should have said, whether you could have changed things, had you done it even a degree differently.
~ Jojo Moyes
Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.
~ Jon Stewart
A foolish man is all night awake, pondering over everything; he than grows tired; and when morning comes, all is lament as before.
~ Benjamin Thorpe
I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.
~ Jimmy Carter
He lies ever upon his hoard, his heart jealous and mean. Never believe he has nodded because his eyes have closed. The dragon never sleeps.
~ Glen Cook