Insomnia Quotes - Page 6

• Insomnia is only mind over mattress.

  Jane Ace

  Sleep, Mind, Mattresses

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• Sleep comes more easily than it returns.

  Victor Hugo

  Sleep, Return

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.779, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I'm so exhausted and yet I feel like I'll never sleep again.

  Maya Banks

  Sleep, Exhausted, Feels

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• In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Time, Sleep, Rivals

  "Drawn and Quartered". Book by Emil Cioran, 1983.

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• I was proud of working 18 hours a day and sleeping three hours a night. It's something now that has turned into a problem for me: not being able to sleep... having insomnia.

  Puff Daddy

  Sleep, Night, Three

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• Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Men, Brain

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1853). “The Works of William Shakespeare: Comprising His Dramatic and Poetical Works, Complete”, p.235

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• Call me a sinner, Mock me maliciously: I was your insomnia, I was your grief.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Grief, Call Me, Mock

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• I guess I've been blessed with insomnia because I do a lot of my writing at night. Because I don't sleep as much as I probably should, I have that extra time to write weird stories and think odd thoughts.

  Dan Chaon

  Blessed, Writing, Sleep

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

  Herman Melville

  Time, Men, Age

  1851 Moby Dick, ch.29.

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• Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Adversity, Sleep, Wake Up

  "Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau". Book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1782.

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• I take politics only medicinally, as a cure of occasional attacks of insomnia.

  Kenneth Hare

  Cures, Occasional

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• Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Science, Dreamer, Demand

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• Counting your blessings is a better cure for insomnia than counting sheep - you can fall asleep before you get through half of them.

  Densey Clyne

  Wisdom, Fall, Blessing

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• Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

  Andrew Young

  Power, Use, Morality

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• It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

  Tracy Chevalier

  Inspiring, Book, Reading

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• He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Lying, Sleep, Bed

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Lines, Trouble, Written

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• Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.

  Charles Simic

  Night, Agency, Advertising

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• My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.

  Dan Blocker

  Daddy, Littles, Wagons

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• Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

  John Heywood

  Inspirational, Hope, Heart

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.461

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• Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.

  John Ciardi

  Business, Sleep, Bed

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• You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady.

  H. G. Wells

  Long, Mind, Done

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.3207, Delphi Classics

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• Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear, your head like the golden rod, and we will go sailing away from here to the beautiful Land Of Nod.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Beautiful, Land, Sailing

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.723, Delphi Classics

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• A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Jobs, Sleep, Sheep

  A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

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• People would ask me, 'Is he as funny at home as he is in the movies?' ... I would have to answer, 'Well, he can be funny. But he is also very serious. He has insomnia and if we him up early, he would bawl the hell out of me'.

  Arthur Marx

  Home, Up Early, People

  "The one, the only Groucho on PBS" by Paul Vercammen, www.cnn.com. March 13, 2001.

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