Insomnia famous quotes
07-14-2025
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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 -
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 -
Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
-- Alain de Botton -
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus -
Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia.
-- Alistair Sinclair -
There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.
-- Amy Grant -
Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
-- Andrew Young -
Call me a sinner, Mock me maliciously: I was your insomnia, I was your grief.
-- Anna Akhmatova -
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 -
There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours oblivion.
-- Anne Reeve Aldrich -
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 -
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 -
His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours.
-- Arthur Baer -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.
-- C. S. Lewis -
I know my music is going well when I don't have insomnia.
-- Carly Rae Jepsen -
When I have my moments of insomnia, youll find me on style.com.
-- Cate Blanchett -
When I can't sleep I count the buckles on my straightjacket.
-- Cathie Linz -
I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.
-- Cesar Romero -
I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
-- Charles Kuralt -
Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.
-- Charles Simic -
Unfortunately, I suffer from insomnia, so my bedtime is as soon as I start to feel the least bit sleepy.
-- Cheyenne Jackson -
It was daunting at first. I did have insomnia for two weeks.
-- Chris Frantz -
Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
I also turn to homeopathic remedies for the treatment of indigestion, travel sickness, insomnia and hay fever just to name a few. Homeopathy offers a safe, natural alternative that causes no side effects or drug interactions.
-- Cindy Crawford -
Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
-- Clifton Fadiman -
I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.
-- David Benioff -
Counting your blessings is a better cure for insomnia than counting sheep - you can fall asleep before you get through half of them.
-- Densey Clyne -
I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem.
-- Don Winslow -
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
-- Edward Lucas -
Insomnia" perhaps she's a daytime sleeper.
-- Elizabeth Bishop -
Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
-- Ellen Goodman -
I only sleep with people I love, which is why I have insomnia.
-- Emilie Autumn -
The Sixth Sense is not a good white film. Insomnia is not a good white film. They're just good films. So why we can't we have good films that happen to have black people, or Asian, or Latino, or any other minority group in them?
-- Eriq La Salle -
The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things than not being able to sleep for thinking about them. It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.
-- Fleur Adcock -
I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night!
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins -
President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record.
-- Grace Napolitano -
Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.
-- Gregory Maguire -
I think the most common cause of insomnia is simple; its loneliness.
-- Heath Ledger -
There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons.
-- Henry Channon -
Another intruder that plagues our good health is sleeplessness. Insomnia is much like constipation in that stress or nervous tension can bring it on or aggravate it until there's almost no coping with it. That's why you find sleeping pills in so many medicine cabinets next to the laxatives.
-- Jack LaLanne -
But no one ever is allowed in Sleepytown, unless He goes to bed in time to take the Sleepytown Express!
-- James J. Montague -
Whenever I’m suffering from insomnia, I just look at a picture of a Toyota Camry and I’m straight off.
-- Jeremy Clarkson -
I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.
-- Jerome K. Jerome -
It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.
-- Jim Bishop -
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, to join the collective nod. The insomniac brain is a sort of conspiracy theorist as well, believing too much in its own paranoiac importance--as though if it were to blink, then doze, the world might be overrun by some encroaching calamity, which its obsessive musings are somehow fending off.
-- Jonathan Lethem -
I'm making tapes for insomniacs to use in the future. I'm going to sell them as a kit to cure insomnia.
-- Jonathan Turley -
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
-- Jose Marti -
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
-- Joseph Wood Krutch -
When you're gripped by anxiety, worry, insomnia, or panic, make yourself shiver, quiver, tremble, and shudder. It seems silly, but it really works.
-- Jude Bijou -
For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night's rest.
-- Judith Guest -
Insomnia is an indication, not a chaos. Its like ache. Youre not going to provide a patient ache medicine without figuring out whats reasoning the pain.
-- Judith Owen -
I take politics only medicinally, as a cure of occasional attacks of insomnia.
-- Kenneth Hare -
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
-- Leonard Cohen -
I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?
-- Lorrie Moore -
He gets into the habit of thinking so passionately at night that he begins to be persecuted by insomnia.
-- Louis de Bernieres -
When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord.
-- Louis-Ferdinand Celine -
My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.
-- Louis-Ferdinand Celine -
My work has to do with a defense against fervor. People are always in a rush. To do what? To do nothing! There is a kind of fervor that is completely meaningless. This drawing is a call for meditation.... I am an insomniac, so for me the state of being asleep is paradise. It is a paradise I can never reach. But I still try to conquer the insomnia, and to a large extent I have done it; it is conquerable. My drawings are a kind of rocking or stroking and an attempt at finding peace. Peaceful rhythm. Like rocking a baby to sleep.
-- Louise Bourgeois -
Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... Without the satisfaction.
-- Lynn Johnston -
There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.
-- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne -
Since seeing Max Kirsten for insomnia - I'm finally achieving a good night's sleep, its just wonderful. He's my new secret weapon!
-- Marie Helvin -
I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past.
-- Mario Lemieux -
When I dance with him, one of my great loves, he is absolutely human, and when he turns to dip me or I step on his foot because we are both leading, I know that one of us will die first and the other will suffer. The slow dance of what’s to come and the slow dance of insomnia pouring across the floor like bath water.
-- Matthew Dickman -
There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act. We surrender to sleep, but in the way that the master entrusts himself to the slave who serves him.
-- Maurice Blanchot -
December is the most difficult month. Medications for insomnia or depression go up during the month of December. A lot of people who experience loss feel that loss magnified in December. Everybody seems happy and you feel all alone. You're not all alone.
-- Max Lucado -
I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.
-- Max Walker -
I'm so exhausted and yet I feel like I'll never sleep again.
-- Maya Banks -
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.
-- Mignon McLaughlin -
I'm kind of an insomniac and watch TV late at night.
-- Monica Keena -
I've had insomnia since I was five years old. I just don't require much sleep. I'm never tired.
-- Nile Rodgers -
Know what the best thing about insomnia is? That I get to stay up all night figuring it out.
-- Olivia Munn -
The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.
-- Patrick deWitt -
The mania started with insomnia and not eating and being driven, driven to find an apartment, driven to see everybody, driven to do New York, driven to never shut up.
-- Patty Duke -
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
-- Philip K. Dick -
Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low.
-- Philip Sidney -
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
-- Plutarch -
The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.
-- Poppy Z. Brite -
I was proud of working 18 hours a day and sleeping three hours a night. It's something now that has turned into a problem for me: not being able to sleep... having insomnia.
-- Puff Daddy -
Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to come to. And I don't know how I got here. It's a strange place. It's a place where a little harmless dreaming and then some sleepy, early-morning talk has led me into considerations of death and annihilation.
-- Raymond Carver
