Sleeplessness Quotes

14 quotes by 14 authors

I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety,… — Frederic Chopin
Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows,… — Hippocrates
As a seasoned insomniac, I knew sometimes the way to beat sleeplessness was to outwit it: to pretend you didn't care about sleeping. Then sometimes… — Erica Jong
Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear… — Bram Stoker
If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is! — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against oneâ€™s own body... On the battlefield,… — George Orwell
Care keeps his watch in every old manâ€™s eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie. — William Shakespeare
It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness, — Thomas Hardy
Don't buy society's definition of success. Because it's not working for anyone. It's not working for women, it's not working for men, it's not working… — Arianna Huffington
The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release. — Emil Cioran
Watch over your child, as it struggles for breath on the outermost verge of life, or see your wife follow the child to that outermost… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants. — Jessamyn West
In a house without a back door I was looking for a fire escape, and I've been ripping up the floorboards just trying to get… — Aaron Marsh

Who Wrote These Sleeplessness Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 14 Sleeplessness Quotes as follows: