Insomnia Quotes - Page 10

• 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

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• That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

  Aldous Huxley

  Blessed, Sleep, Blessing

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• I think the films Insomnia and Memento share all sorts of thematic concerns, such as the relationship between motivation and action, and the difficulty of reconciling your view of the story with the supposed objective view of that story.

  Christopher Nolan

  Motivation, Thinking, Action

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have insomnia, and it's hard for me to sit still for a long time. My mind is always "tick, tick, tick."

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Long, Mind, Tick

  Interview With Karman Kregloe, www.newnownext.com. July 8, 2007.

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• I've had insomnia since I was a little kid and I never sleep well. Sometimes I sleep very badly and sometimes I sleep slightly badly. I get it especially when I'm on tour because you cross a lot of time zones, and I'm not very adaptable.

  Moby

  Sleep, Kids, Time Zones

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• While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their insomnia.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Sleep, Ethical, Ends

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• 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

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• War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

  George Orwell

  Peace, War, Intelligent

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• Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.

  Jose Marti

  Ideas, Rolling, May

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• 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

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• 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

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• I'm kind of an insomniac and watch TV late at night.

  Monica Keena

  Night, Watches, Tvs

  "Style & Substance: Monica Keena". Interview with Farrah Weinstein, nypost.com. September 17, 2000.

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• I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death.

  Nas

  Cousin, Rap, Sleep

  Song: The Message, Album: It Was Written, 1996

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• I felt very bad and could not sleep until 1am. Maybe he could coach me defence.

  Tamim Iqbal

  Sleep, Defence, Coaches

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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”

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

  Heraclitus

  Sleep, Goes On, Harmony

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• You lack the season of all natures, sleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Macbeth Theme, Seasons

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

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• 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

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• 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

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

  Grace Napolitano

  Past, President, Records

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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