Experience Quote by David Hepworth

It is tempting to think of this form of insomnia, the inability to fall asleep, as a disease of agency and control: the inability…

— Siri Hustvedt

Sometimes it's called passing out and sometimes it's just pretending to be asleep

— Sherman Alexie

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

— Alain de Botton

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

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

It's interesting how sleepwalking in a certain way becomes an accumulation of your outside stimuli that's actually there and what's happening in your brain.

— Mike Birbiglia

“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

This is the sleep: being absent, being not present to the present moment, being somewhere else.

— Anonymous

That feeling when you can't fall asleep and you decide to stay up all night and then end up falling asleep 20 minutes before…

— Akbar Cullen

And once again I found myself wondering, as I drifted off to stunned and unbelieving sleep:How do these terrible things always happen to me?

— Jeff Lindsay

Insomnia" perhaps she's a daytime sleeper.

— Elizabeth Bishop

There's an actual physiological thing that happens to me on tour. There's that moment where I sit in my seat and click the seatbelt,…

— Ira Kaplan