Insomnia Quotes - Page 8

• I used to think anxiety and insomnia drove me to success, but it was the stillness that let me be good at anything. When you extend the seconds of stillness, that's when you're able to think and learn.

  Russell Simmons

  Thinking, Anxiety, Able

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• TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect ("Glossina morsitans") whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American novelist ("Mendax interminabilis").

  Ambrose Bierce

  Nature, Novelists, Disease

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.226, 谷月社

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• The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.

  Storm Jameson

  Impossible, Moments

  Storm Jameson (1926). “Three kingdoms”

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• Acting might bring on emotional exhaustion, but writing tired your brains out. Writing led to depression and insomnia and walking around all day with a haggard look.

  Richard Yates

  Writing, Tired, Emotional

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• For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.

  Aristotle

  Dream, Consciousness, Lucid Dreaming

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.1144, Delphi Classics

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• The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife; and these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them, and such as it is to be of these more or less I am, and of these one and all I weave the song of myself.

  Walt Whitman

  Country, Song, Husband

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.20, NYU Press

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• I feel as though whenever I create something, my Mr. Hyde wakes up in the middle of the night and starts thrashing it. I sometimes love it the next morning, but other times it is an abomination.

  Criss Jami

  Morning, Night, Wake Up

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.91, Criss Jami

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• There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours oblivion.

  Anne Reeve Aldrich

  World, Oblivion, Hours

  Anne Reeve Aldrich (1899). “A Village Ophelia”

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• We all should choose our friends carefully. I used to think that no one could know me better than somebody else, because you're inside yourself, your body, you can't see yourself. If you think like that, you surround yourself with other people who are willing to tell you who you are, which are usually judgmental people ... we should really surround ourselves with the ones that adore us and believe in the highest of us.

  Jewel

  I Like You, Believe, Thinking

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• Throughout Asia and Europe, pearls were traditionally believed to ease a range of conditions, including eye diseases, fever, insomnia, 'female complaints', dysentery, whooping cough, measles, loss of virility, and bed-wetting ... Though nobody seems to advertise the potential for pearls to cure bed-wetting anymore.

  Victoria Finlay

  Eye, Loss, Europe

  Victoria Finlay (2006). “Jewels: A Secret History”, p.84, Ballantine Books

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• Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey in my head To work my mind, when body's work's expir'd: For then my thoughts-from far where I abide- Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee, And keep my drooping eyelids open wide, Looking on darkness which the blind do see: Save that my soul's imaginary sight Presents thy shadow to my sightless view, Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night, Makes black night beauteous and her old face new. Lo! thus, by day my limbs, by night my mind, For thee, and for myself no quiet find.

  William Shakespeare

  Tired, Night, Journey

  Sonnet 27

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• Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity of the world, leaving you prey to your private obsessions.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Light, Diversity, Leaving

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• What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights!

  Emile M. Cioran

  Night, Tunes, Enchanted

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• The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational animal when other animals are equally reasonable? But there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Sleep, Animal, Men

  "This column will change your life: Can't sleep, don't sleep" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2010.

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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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• Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in the North, and that if people marry too young the children will be female. He tells us that the blood of females is blacker than that of males; that the pig is the only animal liable to measles; that an elephant suffering from insomnia should have its shoulders rubbed with salt, olive-oil, and warm water; that women have fewer teeth than men, and so on. Nevertheless, he is considered by the great majority of philosophers a paragon of wisdom.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wisdom, Children, Winter

  Bertrand Russell (1943). “An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish: A Hilarious Catalogue of Organized and Individual Stupidity”

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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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• Whenever I’m suffering from insomnia, I just look at a picture of a Toyota Camry and I’m straight off.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Suffering, Looks, Top Gear

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• When you're in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they're so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool.

  Luke Wilson

  Eye, Bats, Actors

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

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• Since seeing Max Kirsten for insomnia - I'm finally achieving a good night's sleep, its just wonderful. He's my new secret weapon!

  Marie Helvin

  Good Night, Sleep, Secret

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• People who are contented and serene sleep well. They fall asleep easily, stay asleep, and wake refreshed. Conversely, people who are anxious, stressed, or depressed do not sleep well, and chronic insomnia is strongly associated with mood disorders. These are clear correlations, but what is cause and what is effect is not clear. Most experts agree that sleep and mood are closely related, that healthy sleep can enhance emotional well-being, while insufficient quantity or quality of sleep can adversely affect it.

  Andrew Weil

  Fall, Sleep, Emotional

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• As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

  David Parnas

  Real, Learning, Computer

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• December is the most difficult month. Medications for insomnia or depression go up during the month of December. A lot of people who experience loss feel that loss magnified in December. Everybody seems happy and you feel all alone. You're not all alone.

  Max Lucado

  Loss, People, Months

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Whoever eats anything at a wedding luncheon? They make the food out of papier mache. My salad had been used four or five times this week.

  Peter Ruric

  Wedding Day, Four, Salad

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• I originally started it to help me with anxiety & insomnia. It’s already made my life waaaaaaaaaaaaaay better & even with my stage fright. Which I used to think there was no cure for…Last night was the first night I’ve slept 8 hours naturally in my entire life. I felt the best I have in ages. It’s better than any medication or all of the other nonsense I’ve tried.

  Sky Ferreira

  Night, Thinking, Anxiety

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