Animal Quote by Emile M. Cioran

It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality

— Gilles Deleuze

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

— Marcel Proust

Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not…

— Samuel Johnson

“Most animals sleep in a hole in the ground or hanging from a tree. Man alone has made for himself an elaborate resting place.…

— James Rozoff

Human beings are the only species that deliberately deprive themselves of sleep for no apparent gain. Many people walk through their lives in an…

— Matthew Walker

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

— Leonard Cohen

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

— Plato

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.

— Anonymous

“With regard to sleep and waking, we must consider what they are: whether they are peculiar to soul or to body, or common to…

— Aristotle

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