Insomnia Quote by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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

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

— Leonard Cohen

“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 gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

— Clifton Fadiman

Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and…

— Emile M. Cioran

So there's a few different ways that we treat insomnia. The first thing that we always do is we look at the cause.

— Shelby Harris

The scary thing about having insomnia is not the hours lost for sleeping but the re-run of thoughts you've been trying to forget.

— Anonymous

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

— Marcel Proust

“Insomnia can, when it goes on for weeks, be hell. But in smaller doses -- a night here and there -- it doesn't always…

— Alain de Botton