I Can't Sleep Quotes - Page 2

• Why are you lying awake, thinking that you're a terrible person? To keep my mind occupied when I can't sleep. Some people count sheep. I self-loathe.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Lying, Sleep, Thinking

  Rainbow Rowell (2011). “Attachments”, p.199, Hachette UK

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• When I can't sleep I count the buckles on my straightjacket.

  Cathie Linz

  Sleep, Insomnia, Buckles

  Cathie Linz (2006). “Bad Girls Don't”, p.192, Penguin

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• When I can't sleep, I don't count sheep. I count lovers.
  And by the time I reach 38 or 39, I'm asleep.

  Miriam Hopkins

  Sleep, Sheep, Lovers

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• I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sleep, Eye, Night

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• O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Insomnia, Nurse

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 5

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• We are all individuals. I can't eat for you and you can't eat for me. I can't sleep for you and you can sleep for me. We are absolutely all individuals. When our purpose is fulfilled, it feels beautiful. That is, to me, the feeling of fulfillment.

  Prem Rawat

  Beautiful, Sleep, Feelings

  Speech in Miami, Florida, April 05, 1979.

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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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• I can't sleep with you tonight, baby, my head's all messed up, you've no idea. It's somewhere else and it's full of voices and songs and bad things.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Depression, Song, Baby

  Hanif Kureishi (2009). “The Buddha of Suburbia”, p.164, Faber & Faber

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• When I was meeting people in L.A., guys always thought if they paid for dinner, they deserved a blow job. But generally, I'll say this - and I'll say it proudly - I can't sleep with someone if I don't have a connection with them.

  Katy Perry

  Jobs, Sleep, Blow

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.

  Hans Rosling

  Sleep, Night, Thinking

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• I'm supposed to be a christian, but most days I don't feel like I can even presume to say that about myself any longer. I have a lot of mad left over. When I can't sleep, I think about the other people who didn't care how much pain and trouble they caused me. And I think about how good I'd feel if they died.

  Charlaine Harris

  Christian, Pain, Sleep

  Charlaine Harris (2010). “Dead in the Family: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.38, Penguin

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• I can't sleep,I can't but when all else fails I just breath.

  Pamela Moore

  Sleep, Failing, Breaths

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• Sometimes if I can't sleep and I am up in the night, I will start researching things - it could be an image I've seen, or a book I am reading.

  Georgina Chapman

  Reading, Book, Sleep

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• When I read the script sometimes, it's like 'Christ! Enough!' I can't sleep at night sometimes. There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Sleep, Night, Hammers

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

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• I've been a sinner and a saint. If you've been a saint all your life, it's pretty easy to sleep at night. If you've been a sinner, you're just as comfortable in it. I've walked both sides of the fence, and there are times I can't sleep and I wake the engineer up and get it out of me. But it usually doesn't pour all the way out. I have to come back and have the conversation that you usually try not to have with yourself. That's how it gets resolved.

  Killer Mike

  Sleep, Night, Trying

  Source: www.complex.com

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• It's late at night and I can't sleep.
  Missing you just runs too deep.
  Oh I can't breathe, thinking of your smile.
  Every kiss I can't forget, this aching heart ain't broken yet.
  Oh God I wish I could make you see
  Cause I know this flame isn't dying
  So nothing can stop me from trying
  Baby you know that
  Maybe it's time for miracles
  Cause I ain't giving up on love
  You know that maybe it's time for miracles
  Cause I ain't giving up on love
  No I ain't giving up on us

  Adam Lambert

  Long Distance Relationship, Running, Thinking Of You

  Song: Time For Miracles, Album: For Your Entertainment, 2009

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• I can't sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Sleep, Night, Nocturnal

  Source: greendayminority.tumblr.com

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• I feel like I get really energetic and hyper. If I do well in a show, I can't sleep afterwards. If I don't do well, I get kinda drained. I think because it's like a battle on stage.

  Charlyne Yi

  Sleep, Thinking, Battle

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. March 1, 2010.

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• I don't sleep. I wait. I sleep in cars and on couches. I sleep when I can, but when I can't sleep, I just don't, so I figure there's a higher calling keeping me on point that night.

  Charlie Sheen

  Sleep, Night, Car

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• I can't sleep without the TV on. It doesn't matter where it is. I don't like silence. My ears ring from loud music.

  Marilyn Manson

  Sleep, Silence, Ears

  "This much I know: Marilyn Manson". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2012.

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• I've never told anyone this before, but I'm an obsessive-compulsive. I go back to my hotel room every evening and put the coat hangers back in order and open my bag and rearrange it. It takes a lot of my time, but if I don't do it I can't sleep.

  Freida Pinto

  Sleep, Order, Coats

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• I have physical problems with listening to reggae. It's weird, I don't know why. It doesn't fit the way my heart pounds, and I feel very bad when I hear it. I have a neighbor--she's a waitress who comes home every night at four in the morning and she plays reggae very loud. I hate that. I can't sleep and I can't wake up either to that music.

  Nina Persson

  Morning, Hate, Sleep

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• I get my most creative energy after a show, so I love to go back to the hotel and compose new material. I generally do it in a rush. I have to get it out, otherwise I can't sleep.

  Jason Mraz

  Sleep, Creative, Energy

  Source: www.student-weekly.com

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• I can't sleep. There's always somebody not getting treatment. I can't stand that.

  Paul Farmer

  Sleep, Treatment, I Can

  "Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World". Book by Tracy Kidder, 2004.

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• Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: 'I'll go take a hot bath.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sleep, Baths, Slumps

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.12, Hamilton Books

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