Insomnia Quotes
Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.

Persons in whom a crisis takes place pass the night preceding the paroxysm uncomfortably, but the su...
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The dismal fact is that self-respect has nothing to do with the approval of others — who are, after ...
Show MoreWhat’s the kindest thing you almost did? Is your fear of insomnia stronger than your fear of what aw...
Show MoreWhen the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in wh...
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It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been ...
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...infirmity alone makes us take notice and learn, and enables us to analyse mechanisms of which oth...
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A man who, night after night, falls like a lump of lead upon his bed, and ceases to live until the m...
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Somewhere in the night ahuman being is drowning.

I am strongly of the opinion that, after the age of twenty-one, a man ought not to be out of bed and...
Show MoreOh God, midnight’s not bad, you wake and go back to sleep, one or two’s not bad, you toss but sleep ...
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Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and ...
Show MoreLord, grant us rest tonight, and if we must be wakeful, cheerful.
I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented.
Of all the things which make up our Short-Time lives, sleep is surely the best.

Pack up all my care and woe, blackbird, bye-bye

Rings and magazines; keychains and umbrellas; hats and glasses; rattles and radios. They looked like...
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That night I slept badly, thrashing about in my bed, not quite asleep and not quite awake. At times ...
Show MoreAnd that night he couldn't sleep, but lay looking out at the light June night which was full of lone...
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It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.
All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper. No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of partin...
Show MoreHe was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those...
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The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
Poor sleepers should endeavor to compose themselves. Tampering with empty space, stirring up echoes ...
Show MoreA disruption of the circadian cycle—the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our work...
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It is snowing and death bugs meas stubborn as insomnia.
Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.

And if I do fall asleep, Marla has to keep track of Tyler. Where he goes. What he does. So maybe dur...
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Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?""I give.""...
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But Mr. Hale resolved that he would not be disturbed by any such nonsensical idea; so he lay awake, ...
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What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?

During last night’s insomnia, as these thoughts came and went between my aching temples, I realised ...
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or t...
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