Insomnia Quotes

When they [people with insomnia] start worrying about not sleeping, I'll say, "Say the mantra to myself; if I don't sleep tonight,…

— Shelby Harris

For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night's rest.

— Judith Guest

“Right now I can't even control my own imagination as it grips my hair and drags me into the dark”

— Tahereh Mafi

Unfortunately, I suffer from insomnia, so my bedtime is as soon as I start to feel the least bit sleepy.

— Cheyenne Jackson

I'm so tired, but I can't sleep. Standing on the edge of something much too deep.

— Sarah McLachlan

My life has been regulated by insomnia.

— Louise Bourgeois

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

— Edmund Vance Cooke

The mania started with insomnia and not eating and being driven, driven to find an apartment, driven to see everybody, driven to…

— Patty Duke

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

— William Shakespeare

We try not using medications initially, and we use something called behavioral therapy for insomnia. This changes behaviors people do in bed,…

— Shelby Harris

Its at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold…

— Brian Aldiss

I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to…

— Raymond Carver

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I never heard of one who…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

“The monsters were never under my bed. Because the monsters were inside my head. I fear no monsters, for no monsters I…

— Nikita Gill

I used to think anxiety and insomnia drove me to success, but it was the stillness that let me be good at…

— Russell Simmons

And if I do fall asleep, Marla has to keep track of Tyler. Where he goes. What he does. So maybe during…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I stay up late every night and realize that it was a bad idea every morning...

— Anonymous

O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, 1710. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids…

— William Shakespeare

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

— Carly Rae Jepsen

I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?

— Lorrie Moore

Sleep comes more easily than it returns.

— Victor Hugo

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

— Jerome K. Jerome

“When the black thing was at its worst, when the illicit cocktails and the ten-mile runs stopped working, I would feel numb…

— Alice Jamieson

“When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep and you're never really awake.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack.”

— Dorothy Parker