Insomnia Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• 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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• Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.

  Albert Camus

  New York, Islands, Iron

  Albert Camus (1987). “American journals”

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

  Emile M. Cioran

  Night, Tunes, Enchanted

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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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• 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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• I tagged a first-timer one night at fight club. That Saturday night, a young guy with an angel’s face came to his first fight club, and I tagged him for a fight. That’s the rule. If it’s your first night in fight club, you have to fight. I knew that so I tagged him because the insomnia was on again, and I was in a mood to destroy something beautiful.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Beautiful, Angel, Fighting

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.122, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things than not being able to sleep for thinking about them. It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.

  Fleur Adcock

  Betrayal, Sleep, Thinking

  Fleur Adcock (2000). “Poems 1960-2000”, Bloodaxe Books Limited

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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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• 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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• 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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• I also turn to homeopathic remedies for the treatment of indigestion, travel sickness, insomnia and hay fever just to name a few. Homeopathy offers a safe, natural alternative that causes no side effects or drug interactions.

  Cindy Crawford

  Hay Fever, Names, Drug

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• But Mr. Hale resolved that he would not be disturbed by any such nonsensical idea; so he lay awake, determining not to think about it.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Thinking, Ideas, Nonsensical

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1216, Delphi Classics

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• I needed a vacation. I needed 5 women. I needed to get the wax out of my ears. My car needed an oil change. I'd failed to file my damned income tax. One of the stems had broken off of my reading glasses. There were ants in my apartment. I needed to get my teeth cleaned. My shoes were run down at the heels. I had insomnia. My auto insurance had expired. I cut myself every time i shaved. I hadn't laughed in 6 years. I tended to worry when there was nothing to worry about. And when there was something to worry about, i got drunk.

  Charles Bukowski

  Running, Reading, Cutting

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• I'm making tapes for insomniacs to use in the future. I'm going to sell them as a kit to cure insomnia.

  Jonathan Turley

  Tape, Use, Cures

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

  Charles Kuralt

  Thinking, Ambitious, Succeed

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• Unfortunately, I suffer from insomnia, so my bedtime is as soon as I start to feel the least bit sleepy.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Suffering, Bedtime, Sleepy

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• I have no problem with my hips - I can still do the things that I used to do. I can run, I'm just not the fastest person on the field anymore.

  Bo Jackson

  Sports, Running, Fields

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