Insomnia Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• There are some patients who just have insomnia and they've had it since they were a kid and we don't quite know why. So when we look at the cause, we definitely want to treat whatever else is going on, but insomnia often because it becomes its own diagnosis and that requires its own treatment.

  Shelby Harris

  Kids, Want, Diagnosis

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.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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• Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught the rhythm of them once and for all, in your sleep at night. The city, of course, can wreck it. So much insomnia. So many rhythms collide. The salesgirl, the landlord, the guests, the bystanders, sixteen varieties of social circumstance in a day. Everyone has the power to call your whole life into question here. Too many people have access to your state of mind. Some people are indifferent to dislike, even relish it. Hardly anyone I know.

  Renata Adler

  Love You, Sleep, Night

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.7, New York Review of Books

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• I think the most common cause of insomnia is simple; its loneliness.

  Heath Ledger

  Loneliness, Simple, Thinking

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• Although drugs are immoral and must be kept from the young, thousands of schools pressure parents to give the drug Ritalin to any lively child who may, sensibly, show signs of boredom in his classroom. Ritalin renders the child docile if not comatose. Side effects? "Stunted growth, facial tics, agitation and aggression, insomnia, appetite loss, headaches, stomach pains and seizures." Marijuana would be far less harmful.

  Gore Vidal

  Children, Pain, School

  "The Last Empire" by Gore Vidal, www.nytimes.com. November 1998.

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• 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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• We try not using medications initially, and we use something called behavioral therapy for insomnia. This changes behaviors people do in bed, none of the tossing and turning.

  Shelby Harris

  People, Trying, Bed

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I don't know if you've ever had insomnia, but it's a really terrible feeling when it's days and weeks on end. It was kind of awful.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Feelings, Awful, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• 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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• For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of any interest to me.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Grief, Men, Years

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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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• A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

  Emily Bronte

  Running, Work, Sleep

  Emily Bronte “Wuthering Heights”, Lulu.com

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  Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

  Philip K. Dick

  Depression, Good Night, Middle Of The Night

  Philip K. Dick (1990). “The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick: The minority report”

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• I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.

  Werner Herzog

  Night, Reviews, Sleepless Nights

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• And if I do fall asleep, Marla has to keep track of Tyler. Where he goes. What he does. So maybe during the day, I can rush around and undo the damage.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fall, Track, Doe

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• I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

  Charles Kuralt

  Thinking, Ambitious, Succeed

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• 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

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• 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

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