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In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Insomniac is an impassioned work-an inspired amalgam of academic and first-hand research, memoir, analysis, and the kind of obsessive brooding we associate with the…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to settle,…

— Jonathan Lethem

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

— Leonard Cohen

Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.

— Alain de Botton

Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and…

— Emile M. Cioran

“Insomnia can, when it goes on for weeks, be hell. But in smaller doses -- a night here and there -- it doesn't always…

— Alain de Botton

“The insomnia I am talking about results from a mild state of possession, harmless to those around you, who sometimes even fail to notice…

— Anonymous

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

— Marcel Proust

So there's a few different ways that we treat insomnia. The first thing that we always do is we look at the cause.

— Shelby Harris

Because of my experience in Desert Storm I have permanent Insomnia but don't get me wrong I love sleep I can never get enough…

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Insomniacs will be familiar with that disastrous moment as you lie there in the dark, with your eyes shut, when you think, 'What does…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell