Best Insomnia Thoughts
245 Insomnia quotes by 191 unique authors
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There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that,…
— Maurice Blanchot
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When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias!…
— Rumi
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It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.
— Tracy Chevalier
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The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and…
— Oprah Winfrey
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The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.
— Poppy Z. Brite
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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…
— Ernest Hemingway
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What hath night to do with sleep?
— John Milton
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My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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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, to…
— Jonathan Lethem
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I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up…
— David Benioff
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A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a sure way to…
— Boris Pasternak
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For six months I couldn't sleep. With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.
— Charles Simic
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Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep, - the innocent sleep; Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of…
— William Shakespeare
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With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I am strongly of the opinion that, after the age of twenty-one, a man ought not to be out of bed and awake at four…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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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 come to. And…
— Raymond Carver
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I only sleep with people I love, which is why I have insomnia.
— Emilie Autumn
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Yeah. And Savitar predates him. He has presided over this council since the very beginning, and notice, Savitar looks about thirty. We don’t know what…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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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.
— Jerome K. Jerome
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Why can I never go back to bed? Who's is the voice ringing in my head? Where is the sense in these desperate dreams? Why…
— Emilie Autumn
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O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, 1710. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep…
— William Shakespeare
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That's the advantage of insomnia. People who go to be early always complain that the night is too short, but for those of us who…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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When I dance with him, one of my great loves, he is absolutely human, and when he turns to dip me or I step on…
— Matthew Dickman
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But [Pooh] couldn't sleep. The more he tried to sleep the more he couldn't. He tried counting Sheep, which is sometimes a good way of…
— A A Milne
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