Insomnia Quotes - Page 3

A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.

What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights!

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

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

But [Pooh] couldn't sleep. The more he tried to sleep the more he couldn't. He tried counting Sheep, which is sometimes a good way of getting to sleep, and, as that was no good, he tried counting Heffalumps. And that was worse. Because every Heffalump that he counted was making straight for a pot of Pooh's honey, and eating it all. For some minutes he lay there miserably, but when the five hundred and eighty-seventh Heffalump was licking its jaws, and saying to itself, "Very good honey this, I don't know when I've tasted better," Pooh could bear it no longer.

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.

My work has to do with a defense against fervor. People are always in a rush. To do what? To do nothing! There is a kind of fervor that is completely meaningless. This drawing is a call for meditation.... I am an insomniac, so for me the state of being asleep is paradise. It is a paradise I can never reach. But I still try to conquer the insomnia, and to a large extent I have done it; it is conquerable. My drawings are a kind of rocking or stroking and an attempt at finding peace. Peaceful rhythm. Like rocking a baby to sleep.

When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room.

What hath night to do with sleep?

Another intruder that plagues our good health is sleeplessness. Insomnia is much like constipation in that stress or nervous tension can bring it on or aggravate it until there's almost no coping with it. That's why you find sleeping pills in so many medicine cabinets next to the laxatives.

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.

Yeah. And Savitar predates him. He has presided over this council since the very beginning, and notice, Savitar looks about thirty. We don’t know what he is, but he ain’t one of us and he ain’t human. And trust me, you don’t want to mess with him. (Paris) Thank you for that highly unamusing summation. Next time I have insomnia, I know who to call. In the meantime, little lioness who would probably like to live another year, don’t interrupt me again. I don’t like it and I tend to kill the things I don’t like. (Savitar)

Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.

Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.

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

Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest.

Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine!

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

When they [people with insomnia] start worrying about not sleeping, I'll say, "Say the mantra to myself; if I don't sleep tonight, I'll likely sleep tomorrow, and if not tomorrow then definitely the third" because our body has a way of naturally catching up.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.