Can't Sleep Quotes

• If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

  Dale Carnegie

  Happiness, Lying, Sleep

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• I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Life, Inspiring

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• I can't sleep. Too many thoughts running through my useless head.

  Simone Elkeles

  Running, Sleep, Useless

  Simone Elkeles (2013). “Leaving Paradise”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• The reasons we can't sleep at night are usually the same reasons we don't truly live during the day.

  Michael Xavier

  Sleep, Can't Sleep, Night

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• You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

  Dr. Seuss

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• Sleep is like the unicorn - it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any

  Dr. Seuss

  Sleep, Doubt, Unicorn

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• I just can't sleep tonight knowing that things ain't right.

  Justin Bieber

  Sleep, Can't Sleep, Knowing

  Song: Pray, Album: My Worlds Acoustic, 2010

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• There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

  Edward Lucas

  Sleep, Insomnia, Naps

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• I'm so tired, but I can't sleep. Standing on the edge of something much too deep.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Tired, Sleep, Insomnia

  "Song: 'I Will Remember You'". 1995.

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• I can hear my heart beating. I can hear my stomach growling. I can hear my teeth grinding and my joints creaking. My body's so noisy, I can't sleep.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Heart, Sleep, Teeth

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• I've been having a lot of trouble sleeping as we all should. I dunno. You don't live that long. It doesn't matter.

  Louis C. K.

  Life, Sleep, Insomnia

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• There is a school of thought that believes that sleep is for the night. You appear to be out to disprove them.

  Alan Ayckbourn

  Believe, Sleep, School

  Alan Ayckbourn (2015). “The Crafty Art of Playmaking”, p.68, Macmillan

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• To sleep is an act of faith.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Sleep, Can't Sleep

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• I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark

  Mary Stewart

  Pain, Sleep, Dark

  Mary Stewart (1978). “Hollow Hills”, Fawcett

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• For some people, fame kills it and becomes more important than the music or the performance. But for me fame is like rocket fuel. The more my fans like what I'm doing, the more I want to give back to them. And my passion is so strong I can't sleep - I haven'tslept for three days.

  Lady Gaga

  Strong, Passion, Sleep

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• Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

  Bill Cosby

  Fake People, Sleep, Eye

  Twitter post from Nov 05, 2009

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• I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Sleep, Years, Bed

  Decline and Fall (1928) pt. 2, ch. 3

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• A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sleep, Naps, Lectures

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.3045, e-artnow

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• When I can't sleep, I always wrap something around my neck and close my eyes and imagine myself being strangled to death. Then I can fall asleep--it feels like sinking deep underwater

  Otsuichi

  Fall, Sleep, Eye

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• When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.

  Rumi

  Love, Spiritual, Sleep

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.147, Penguin UK

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• America has become so tense and nervous it has been years since I have seen anyone sleep in church - and that is a sad situation.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Funny, Sleep, Years

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• I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

  Ned Vizzini

  Sad, Depression, Suicide

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• Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Anniversary, Marriage

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• Failure is an option. It's what you do with the failure that makes you who you are. Our failures mold us. I have failed at several things in my life. What sets some of us apart, is that when we fail, we can't sleep at night. It haunts us until we have our time at redemption.

  David Goggins

  Sleep, Night, Mold

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• It's 2 o'clock in the morning and I just can't sleep Outside the rain is pourin', I'm lonely as can be Maybe 2night'll be different than the nights before I need 2 feel someone beside me, I can't be alone no more

  Prince

  Lonely, Morning, Rain

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