Insomnia Quotes - Page 2

Fatigue is the best pillow.

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

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

That's the advantage of insomnia. People who go to be early always complain that the night is too short, but for those of us who stay up all night, it can feel as long as a lifetime. You get a lot done

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.

Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.

The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.

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

Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.

You lack the season of all natures, sleep.

O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.

The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.

Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast...

I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.

The mania started with insomnia and not eating and being driven, driven to find an apartment, driven to see everybody, driven to do New York, driven to never shut up.

Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.

Laugh and the world laughs with you!

I only sleep with people I love, which is why I have insomnia.

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.

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.

There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act. We surrender to sleep, but in the way that the master entrusts himself to the slave who serves him.

Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to settle, to join the collective nod. The insomniac brain is a sort of conspiracy theorist as well, believing too much in its own paranoiac importance--as though if it were to blink, then doze, the world might be overrun by some encroaching calamity, which its obsessive musings are somehow fending off.

In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.

The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.