Insomnia Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.”
– Jessamyn West

“Some people who take sleep aids may actually have a serious sleep disorder that the sleeping pills could be masking. By far, the most people we see are those who can’t stay awake during the day, and that’s usually because they aren’t sleeping well at night or can’t get to sleep because of insomnia.”
– John Ancy

“Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.”
– John Bunyan

“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”
– John Steinbeck

“Without enough sleep, we all become tall two-year-olds.”
– JoJo Jensen

“Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.”
– Jon Stewart

“Insomnia is a variant of Tourette’s–the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to settle, to join the collective nod. The insomniac brain is a sort of conspiracy theorist as well, believing too much in its own paranoiac importance–as though if it were to blink, then doze, the world might be overrun by some encroaching calamity, which its obsessive musings are somehow fending off.”
– Jonathan Lethem

“I’m making tapes for insomniacs to use in the future. I’m going to sell them as a kit to cure insomnia.”
– Jonathan Turley

“Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.”
– Joseph Wood Krutch

“Insomnia is an indication, not a chaos. It’s like ache. You’re not going to provide a patient ache medicine without figuring out what’s reasoning the pain.”
– Judith Owens

“When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn’t believe what a racket they make in my room.”
– Karl Kraus

“Insomnia

I cannot get to sleep tonight.
I toss and turn and flop.
I try to count some fluffy sheep
while o’er a fence they hop.
I try to think of pleasant dreams
of places really cool.
I don’t know why I cannot sleep -
I slept just fine at school.”
– Kathy Kenney-Marshall

“It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped.”
– Kim Stanley Robinson

“People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.”
– Leo J. Burke

“The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.”
– Leonard Cohen

“A well spent day brings happy sleep.”
– Leonardo da Vinci

“He gets into the habit of thinking so passionately at night that he begins to be persecuted by insomnia.”
– Louis de Bernières

“When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord.”
– Louis-Ferdinand Céline

“Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night… without the satisfaction.”
– Lynn Johnston

“There should be a ‘How to sleep at night’ and ‘How to wake up in the morning’ courses for insomniacs.”
– M.J. Christine

“I’m anal retentive. I’m a workaholic. I have insomnia. And I’m a control freak. That’s why I’m not married. Who could stand me?”
– Madonna

“A man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.”
– Marcel Proust

“There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.”
– Marie de Rabutin-Chantal

“I’m so exhausted and yet I feel like I’ll never sleep again.”
– Maya Banks

“I’m kind of an insomniac and watch TV late at night.”
– Monica Keena

“I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death.”
– Nasir Jones

“I’ve had insomnia since I was five years old. I just don’t require much sleep. I’m never tired.”
– Nile Rodgers

“Know what the best thing about insomnia is? That I get to stay up all night figuring it out.”
– Olivia Munn

“I am strongly of the opinion that, after the age of twenty-one, a man ought not to be out of bed and awake at four in the morning. The hour breeds thought. At twenty-one, life being all future, it may be examined with impunity. But, at thirty, having become an uncomfortable mixture of future and past, it is a thing to be looked at only when the sun is high and the world full of warmth and optimism.”
– P.G. Wodehouse

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