Insomnia Quotes - Page 6

The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.

My attention span is all over the place, and I overthink things. I'm an insomniac.

I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.

Since seeing Max Kirsten for insomnia - I'm finally achieving a good night's sleep, its just wonderful. He's my new secret weapon!

When you're in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they're so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool.

I've been having a lot of trouble sleeping as we all should. I dunno. You don't live that long. It doesn't matter.

I take politics only medicinally, as a cure of occasional attacks of insomnia.

I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.

But no one ever is allowed in Sleepytown, unless He goes to bed in time to take the Sleepytown Express!

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.

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.

What is that one crucifixion compared to the daily kind any insomniac endures?

Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear, your head like the golden rod, and we will go sailing away from here to the beautiful Land Of Nod.

I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem.

If we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won't change the inevitable; but we will change ourselves. I know. I have tried it. I once refused to accept an inevitable situation with which I was confronted. I played the fool and railed against it, and rebelled. I turned my nights into hells of insomnia. I brought upon myself everything I didn't want. Finally, after a year of self-torture, I had to accept what I knew from the outset I couldn't possible alter.

I think the films Insomnia and Memento share all sorts of thematic concerns, such as the relationship between motivation and action, and the difficulty of reconciling your view of the story with the supposed objective view of that story.

I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.

When I can't sleep I count the buckles on my straightjacket.

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

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

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").

Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia.

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.

O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night.

So, sleep deprivation, and sometimes an insomnia, which is a little bit of a different form, but just getting a lack of sleep, can lead to a number of different decrements.