Darkness Quote by Emile M. Cioran

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

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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

— Anonymous

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

— Anonymous

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

— Alain de Botton

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

— Marcel Proust

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

— Leonard Cohen

My life has been regulated by insomnia.

— Louise Bourgeois

Insomniacs tend to fall into two general categories - those who give up and those who don't. I don't. I refuse to admit defeat…

— Sloane Crosley

Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.

— Jon Stewart

I have patches of insomnia, and I'm fascinated by the otherness of the world at night. The stillness. Daytime preoccupations fall away, standards change,…

— Morag Joss