Can-t-sleep Quote by Chuck Klosterman

Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead.

— John Banville

I like to kill people in my dreams, so when I fall asleep be sure not to come too close.

— Cao Cao

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

— Mason Cooley

When you notice light seeping into your coffin, it's hard to go on pretending that you're still dead.

— John Burdett

When my birth parents were murdered, I stayed outdoors all night with the bodies. Years later in America, around fourteen, my psychiatrist explained to…

— Kola Boof

Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk…

— Franz Kafka

When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.

— Anonymous

I must not fall asleep in the middle of my life. Out of the blankness that surrounds me I must pluck the incident after…

— J. M. Coetzee

I don't sleep. All night long I'm wide awake, thinking, Secrets, secrets, secrets. There are secrets in my past no one needs to know.…

— Julie Anne Peters

I do not sleep; I wish to meet my death awake.

— Maria Theresa

What you hope for Is that at some point of the pointless journey, Indoors or out, and when you least expect it, Right in…

— Richard Wilbur

I've been at the funerals of a lot of people in my neighborhood. Sometimes when I sit back and relax, I think about that…

— Carmelo Anthony