Quotes and Sayings About Insomnia

But [Pooh] couldn't sleep. The more he tried to sleep the more he couldn't. He tried counting Sheep, which is sometimes a good way of getting to sleep, and, as that was no good, he tried counting Heffalumps. And that was worse. Because every Heffalump that he counted was making straight for a pot of Pooh's honey, and eating it all. For some minutes he lay there miserably, but when the five hundred and eighty-seventh Heffalump was licking its jaws, and saying to itself, "Very good honey this, I don't know when I've tasted better," Pooh could bear it no longer.
-- A. A. Milne

#Sleep #Insomnia #Sheep

A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.
-- A. J. Jacobs

#Jobs #Sleep #Insomnia

Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
-- Alain de Botton

#Insomnia #Glamorous #Term

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus

#Sleep #Insomnia #People

Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia.
-- Alistair Sinclair

#Insomnia #Four #Causes

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Morning #Sleep #Insomnia

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.
-- Amy Grant

#Insomnia #Experience #Impossible

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
-- Andrew Young

#Power #Insomnia #Use

Call me a sinner, Mock me maliciously: I was your insomnia, I was your grief.
-- Anna Akhmatova

#Grief #Insomnia #Call Me

Give me bitter years of sickness, Suffocation, insomnia, fever, Take my child and my lover, And my mysterious gift of song This I pray at your liturgy After so many tormented days, So that the stormcloud over darkened Russia Might become a cloud of glorious rays.
-- Anna Akhmatova

#Song #Children #Insomnia

There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours oblivion.
-- Anne Reeve Aldrich

#Insomnia #World #Oblivion

I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays.
-- Anthony Quinn

#Sunday #Insomnia #One Day

For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of any interest to me.
-- Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#Grief #Insomnia #Men

I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.
-- Antonio Tabucchi

#Insomnia #Anaesthesia

His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours.
-- Arthur Baer

#Sleep #Insomnia #Office

People would ask me, 'Is he as funny at home as he is in the movies?' ... I would have to answer, 'Well, he can be funny. But he is also very serious. He has insomnia and if we him up early, he would bawl the hell out of me'.
-- Arthur Marx

#Home #Insomnia #People

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Sleep #Insomnia #Redemption

That's the advantage of insomnia. People who go to be early always complain that the night is too short, but for those of us who stay up all night, it can feel as long as a lifetime. You get a lot done
-- Banana Yoshimoto

#Night #Insomnia #Long

Fatigue is the best pillow.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Sleep #Insomnia #Liberty

I have no problem with my hips - I can still do the things that I used to do. I can run, I'm just not the fastest person on the field anymore.
-- Bo Jackson

#Sports #Running #Insomnia

A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a sure way to upset the stomach. Consciousness is a poison when we apply it to ourselves. Consciousness is a light directed outward. it's like the headlights on a locomotive—turn them inward and you'd have a crash.
-- Boris Pasternak

#Fall #Insomnia #Light

Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Sleep #Insomnia #Trying

I know my music is going well when I don't have insomnia.
-- Carly Rae Jepsen

#Insomnia #Music Is #Wells

When I have my moments of insomnia, youll find me on style.com.
-- Cate Blanchett

#Insomnia #Style #Moments

When I can't sleep I count the buckles on my straightjacket.
-- Cathie Linz

#Sleep #Insomnia #Buckles

I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.
-- Cesar Romero

#Insomnia #Doctors #Medical

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
-- Charles Kuralt

#Thinking #Insomnia #Ambitious

Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.
-- Charles Simic

#Night #Insomnia #Agency

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
-- Charlotte Bronte

#Dream #Sleep #Insomnia

Unfortunately, I suffer from insomnia, so my bedtime is as soon as I start to feel the least bit sleepy.
-- Cheyenne Jackson

#Insomnia #Suffering #Bedtime