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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 ...

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What’s the kindest thing you almost did? Is your fear of insomnia stronger than your fear of what aw...

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When 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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Marcel ProustSodom and Gomorrah

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...

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Oh 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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Ray BradburySomething Wicked This Way Comes

Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and ...

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Lord, grant us rest tonight, and if we must be wakeful, cheerful.

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Robert BoltA Man for All Seasons

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 ...

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And that night he couldn't sleep, but lay looking out at the light June night which was full of lone...

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Tove JanssonFinn Family Moomintroll

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...

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He 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 ...

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Walter de la MareGreat Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

A disruption of the circadian cycle—the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our work...

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William StyronDarkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

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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