Insomnia Quotes - Page 7

• December is the most difficult month. Medications for insomnia or depression go up during the month of December. A lot of people who experience loss feel that loss magnified in December. Everybody seems happy and you feel all alone. You're not all alone.

  Max Lucado

  Loss, People, Months

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I use a wide selection of colours. It is impossible to produce work like mine using only the primary colours as they only mix a certain range of colour.

  John Dyer

  Use, Impossible, Certain

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• Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

  Jessamyn West

  Sleep, Desert, Vegetation

  Jessamyn West (1986). “Woman Said Yes: Encounters with Life and Death”, Harcourt on Demand

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• I feel as though whenever I create something, my Mr. Hyde wakes up in the middle of the night and starts thrashing it. I sometimes love it the next morning, but other times it is an abomination.

  Criss Jami

  Morning, Night, Wake Up

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.91, Criss Jami

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• There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours oblivion.

  Anne Reeve Aldrich

  World, Oblivion, Hours

  Anne Reeve Aldrich (1899). “A Village Ophelia”

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• We all should choose our friends carefully. I used to think that no one could know me better than somebody else, because you're inside yourself, your body, you can't see yourself. If you think like that, you surround yourself with other people who are willing to tell you who you are, which are usually judgmental people ... we should really surround ourselves with the ones that adore us and believe in the highest of us.

  Jewel

  I Like You, Believe, Thinking

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• For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of any interest to me.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Grief, Men, Years

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• Throughout Asia and Europe, pearls were traditionally believed to ease a range of conditions, including eye diseases, fever, insomnia, 'female complaints', dysentery, whooping cough, measles, loss of virility, and bed-wetting ... Though nobody seems to advertise the potential for pearls to cure bed-wetting anymore.

  Victoria Finlay

  Eye, Loss, Europe

  Victoria Finlay (2006). “Jewels: A Secret History”, p.84, Ballantine Books

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• 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.

  Jack LaLanne

  Stress, Sleep, Medicine

  Jack Lalanne (1995). “Revitalize Your Life After Fifty”, Hastings House Pub

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• Give me bitter years of sickness, Suffocation, insomnia, fever, Take my child and my lover, And my mysterious gift of song This I pray at your liturgy After so many tormented days, So that the stormcloud over darkened Russia Might become a cloud of glorious rays.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Song, Children, Clouds

  Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (1993). “A stranger to heaven and earth: poems of Anna Akhmatova”, Shambhala Pubns

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• That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia.

  James Joyce

  Suffering, Reader, Ideals

  'Finnegans Wake' (1939) pt. 1, p. 120

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• TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect ("Glossina morsitans") whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American novelist ("Mendax interminabilis").

  Ambrose Bierce

  Nature, Novelists, Disease

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.226, 谷月社

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• Insomnia never comes to a man who has to get up exactly at six o'clock. Insomnia troubles only those who can sleep any time.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Sleep, Men, Six

  The Philistine, 'In Re Muldoon'

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• I don't get insomnia, but I do get the odd night when I can't unwind.

  Delia Smith

  Night, Odd, Unwind

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Whoever eats anything at a wedding luncheon? They make the food out of papier mache. My salad had been used four or five times this week.

  Peter Ruric

  Wedding Day, Four, Salad

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• I originally started it to help me with anxiety & insomnia. It’s already made my life waaaaaaaaaaaaaay better & even with my stage fright. Which I used to think there was no cure for…Last night was the first night I’ve slept 8 hours naturally in my entire life. I felt the best I have in ages. It’s better than any medication or all of the other nonsense I’ve tried.

  Sky Ferreira

  Night, Thinking, Anxiety

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• Some patients are still having insomnia, but it's seems worse to them than actually it is. So, if they say they're sleep deprived, they haven't slept at all in three days; if we actually take them into a lab, most of the time we actually do see they're sleeping on and off here and there.

  Shelby Harris

  Sleep, Here And There, Three

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught the rhythm of them once and for all, in your sleep at night. The city, of course, can wreck it. So much insomnia. So many rhythms collide. The salesgirl, the landlord, the guests, the bystanders, sixteen varieties of social circumstance in a day. Everyone has the power to call your whole life into question here. Too many people have access to your state of mind. Some people are indifferent to dislike, even relish it. Hardly anyone I know.

  Renata Adler

  Love You, Sleep, Night

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.7, New York Review of Books

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• In general, there are patients with insomnia who - many patients with insomnia will actually over report the lack of sleep that they are getting.

  Shelby Harris

  Sleep, Patient, Reports

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I think the most common cause of insomnia is simple; its loneliness.

  Heath Ledger

  Loneliness, Simple, Thinking

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• Well, the actual function of the brain, not so sure yet. There's a lot of different theories about it, but when you talk about psychologically in your brain, a lot of people with insomnia, though not all, report that they can't turn their minds off.

  Shelby Harris

  People, Brain, Mind

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Although drugs are immoral and must be kept from the young, thousands of schools pressure parents to give the drug Ritalin to any lively child who may, sensibly, show signs of boredom in his classroom. Ritalin renders the child docile if not comatose. Side effects? "Stunted growth, facial tics, agitation and aggression, insomnia, appetite loss, headaches, stomach pains and seizures." Marijuana would be far less harmful.

  Gore Vidal

  Children, Pain, School

  "The Last Empire" by Gore Vidal, www.nytimes.com. November 1998.

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• I used to think anxiety and insomnia drove me to success, but it was the stillness that let me be good at anything. When you extend the seconds of stillness, that's when you're able to think and learn.

  Russell Simmons

  Thinking, Anxiety, Able

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• So, sleep deprivation, and sometimes an insomnia, which is a little bit of a different form, but just getting a lack of sleep, can lead to a number of different decrements.

  Shelby Harris

  Sleep, Numbers, Different

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I was back on track, raring to go and then the insomnia kicked in. When you don't sleep, your faculties are not as sharp as they would normally be. My memory has been affected, I'm not as mentally agile as I would be if I were sleeping properly. I can't work because to act you need to be able to learn your lines and I can't do that at the moment. Insomnia is awful. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

  Emily Lloyd

  Memories, Sleep, Worst Enemy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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