Insomnia Quotes - Page 10

• I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.

  Cesar Romero

  Doctors, Medical, Tranquility

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  Dream, Sleep, Reflection

  5 Copy quote

• The midnight disease is a kind of emotional insomnia; at ever conscious moment its victim—even if he or she writes at dawn, or in the middle of the afternoon—feels like a person lying in a sweltering bedroom, with the window thrown open, looking up at a sky filled with stars and airplanes, listening to the narrative of a rattling blind, an ambulance, a fly trapped in a Coke bottle, while all around him the neighbours soundly sleep.

  Michael Chabon

  Stars, Lying, Writing

  12 Copy quote

• He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the night when the insomniac longs for a third side after trying the two he has.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Sleep, Night, Two

  4 Copy quote

• Things happen or they don't happen, that's all. Nothing is accomplished by sweat and struggle. Nearly everything which we call life is just insomnia, an agony because we've lost the habit of falling asleep. We don't know how to let go. We're like a Jack-in-the-box perched on top of a spring and the more we struggle the harder it is to get back in the box.

  Henry Miller

  Letting Go, Spring, Struggle

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can't touch anything and nothing can touch you.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Distance, Far Away, Copies

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.21, Random House

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.

  Patrick deWitt

  Lonely, Spring, Men

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.35, Granta Books

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• When Ronan thought of Gansey, he thought of moving into Monmouth Manufacturing, of nights spent in companionable insomnia, of a summer searching for a king, of Gansey asking the Gray Man for his life. Brothers.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Summer, Brother, Kings

  9 Copy quote

• Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Good Night, Lying, Anger

  "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater". Book by Thomas De Quincey, 1821.

  60 Copy quote

  Show source

• For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.

  Richard Baker

  Moon, People, Sunrise

  48 Copy quote

• For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night's rest.

  Judith Guest

  Good Night, Mean, Bed

  10 Copy quote

• I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Dream, Sleep, Accomplishment

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Queens, Sleep, Heaven

  'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) pt. 5

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.

  Heraclitus

  Sleep, Goes On, Harmony

  10 Copy quote

• You lack the season of all natures, sleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Macbeth Theme, Seasons

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 141

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? Young son, it argues a distemper'd head So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed: Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie; But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Lying, Sleep

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.1019, Bloomsbury Publishing

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Sleep, Night

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

  56 Copy quote

  Show source

• What is that one crucifixion compared to the daily kind any insomniac endures?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Kind, Endure, Crucifixion

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• A disruption of the circadian cycle—the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday life—seems to be involved in many, if not most, cases of depression; this is why brutal insomnia so often occurs and is most likely why each day’s pattern of distress exhibits fairly predictable alternating periods of intensity and relief.

  William Styron

  Patterns, Relief, Each Day

  William Styron (2010). “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness”, p.16, Open Road Media

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.

  Jim Bishop

  Mother, Father, Impossible

  4 Copy quote

• President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record.

  Grace Napolitano

  Past, President, Records

  8 Copy quote

• The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.

  Sue Grafton

  Taken, Character, Years

  7 Copy quote

• I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays.

  Anthony Quinn

  Sunday, One Day, Bankers

  11 Copy quote

• I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past.

  Mario Lemieux

  Sports, Wine, Past

  10 Copy quote

• When you're gripped by anxiety, worry, insomnia, or panic, make yourself shiver, quiver, tremble, and shudder. It seems silly, but it really works.

  Jude Bijou

  Silly, Worry, Anxiety

  4 Copy quote