Insomnia Quotes - page 2

Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality. (Mignon McLaughlin)

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

Charles Simic

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

Anna Akhmatova

They have read your novel... and they said only one thing, that, unfortunately, it is not finished. So I wanted to show you your hero. He has been sitting here for about two thousand years, sleeping, but, when the moon is full, he is tormented, as you see, by insomnia. And it torments not only him, but his faithful guardian, the dog. If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it. The only thing that brave creature ever feared was thunderstorms. But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one who is loved.

Mikhail Bulgakov

It is tempting to think of this form of insomnia, the inability to fall asleep, as a disease of agency and control: the inability to relinquish high self-reflexive consciousness for the vulnerable, ignorant regions of slumber in which we know not what we do.

Siri Hustvedt

Sleep resistance, bouts of insomnia, nightmares, night terrors, crawling into bed with parents in the middle of the night - all these are so common among children, it seems fair to call them 'normal.'

Siri Hustvedt

Insomnia: A contagious disease often transmitted from babies to parents.

Shannon Fife

Under the midnight sun, despair acquires the intensity of sex, insomnia the vehemence of art.

James K. Morrow

His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours.

Arthur Baer

I know my music is going well when I don't have insomnia.

Carly Rae Jepsen

I sometimes suffer from insomnia, and one of the first times it ever happened, I was like, 'I don't know what to do with myself,' so I started writing a song, and by morning, it was finished. It was about how I couldn't sleep... I was 14. (Eliot Paulina Sumner)

I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?

Lorrie Moore

It's funny because before I joined the cast of 'Heroes,' I was an insomniac. I have suffered from insomnia for, like, so long. Now that I'm on the show, seriously - I sleep like a baby. I'm so tired all the time.

Dana Davis

If a woman gets insomnia, you never know where you're going to find her furniture the next morning. It's primal. We have so little we can control, but we can perfect the way our room looks.

Nicole Holofcener

I've had insomnia since I was five years old. I just don't require much sleep. I'm never tired.

Nile Rodgers

I sometimes suffer from insomnia. And when I can't fall asleep, I play what I call the alphabet game.

Roz Chast

I think Vegas is the answer for pregnant people because of insomnia. It's open all the time and you go down and play your silly slots.

Selma Blair

Some struggle with medical issues - like insomnia - that make sleep hard. But for many of us, the quantity and quality of sleep come down to a matter of choice. Still, only a few enterprising economists have looked closely at this, and generally, those have assumed that we choose our hours of sleep optimally.

Sendhil Mullainathan

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

Clifton Fadiman

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

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)

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.

Sean Combs

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

A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a sure way to upset the stomach. Consciousness is a poison when we apply it to ourselves. Consciousness is a light directed outward. it's like the headlights on a locomotive-turn them inward and you'd have a crash.

Boris Pasternak

Insomnia is a very prevalent issue. It's a women's health issue, and I chose to talk about it because so many people have experienced it to varying degrees. For me, I'm doing great now, but it took a lot of work to figure out how to get back to sleep. I had to change some of my habits. I developed some pretty bad sleep ritual habits.

Jenny Lewis

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