Can't Sleep Quotes - Page 4

• Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: 'I'll go take a hot bath.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sleep, Baths, Slumps

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.12, Hamilton Books

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• I saw your name in lights last night. It's the middle of the night, and I can't sleep, thinking all my trumpeting thoughts, and I get out of bed, open the curtains, and look into the night full of stars, and you know what I saw? Your name. Like the stars joined up and spelled the word for me. Like a sign.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Stars, Sleep, Night

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• and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again that was fair fair to us and fair to love itself. we ask for no mercy or no miracles; we are strong enough to live and to die and to kill flies, attend the boxing matches, go to the racetrack, live on luck and skill, get alone, get alone often, and if you can't sleep alone be careful of the words you speak in your sleep; and ask for no mercy no miracles; and don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

  Charles Bukowski

  Strong, Sleep, Skills

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• What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

  Bob Dylan

  Sleep, Fans, Breakfast

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it.

  John Lee Hooker

  Love You, Sleep, Kissing

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• When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.

  Hans Rosling

  Sleep, Night, Thinking

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• I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him, all day I wait to see him, and when I do see him my heart turns over and I think I will faint with desire.

  Philippa Gregory

  Dream, Heart, Sleep

  Philippa Gregory (2008). “The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)”, p.436, Simon and Schuster

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• My heart is broken. It really is. All the signs are there. I can't sleep- not even burgers. Every time the phone rings, my pulse leaps... But it's never for me, it's never him.

  Meg Cabot

  Heart, Sleep, Phones

  Meg Cabot (2008). “All American Girl”, p.204, Pan Macmillan

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• Whenever I can’t sleep, I like to lie in the darkness and pretend I’ve been assassinated. I’ve found this is the best way to get comfortable. I imagine I’m in the coffin at my funeral, and people from my past are walking by my corpse and making comments about my demise.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Lying, Sleep, Past

  Chuck Klosterman (2013). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs”, p.199, Faber & Faber

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• You're love is nothing I can't fight. Can't sleep with a man who dims my shine.

  Lady Gaga

  Sleep, Fighting, Love Is

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• Do you ever do that thing where you lie in bed and you can't sleep so you end up writing out recent conversation you've had? So they look like a play?' Well you should. It's fun. I keep them. Look through them, sometimes.

  Nick Hornby

  Fun, Lying, Writing

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• Everyone's scared. So scared they can't sleep sometimes. Or eat. Or keep their weight on." "Then why bother playing?" I asked. It was a whisper, this question. "Because. You love the game. You love the people you play with. You love winning, maybe. You love that one moment when you get it right . . . I dunno. Why do you play?" "Because," I whispered, "it's who I am." Sounds like a good reason to me.

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  Sleep, Winning, Who I Am

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• I'm supposed to be a christian, but most days I don't feel like I can even presume to say that about myself any longer. I have a lot of mad left over. When I can't sleep, I think about the other people who didn't care how much pain and trouble they caused me. And I think about how good I'd feel if they died.

  Charlaine Harris

  Christian, Pain, Sleep

  Charlaine Harris (2010). “Dead in the Family: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.38, Penguin

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• We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

  William Hazlitt

  Hypocrite, Sleep, Can't Sleep

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1808, Delphi Classics

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• When you have a baby, sleep is not an option. You can't sleep. Even on vacation, you wake up at 6:30 a.m.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Baby, Dad, Sleep

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• It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out.

  Bill Watterson

  Summer, Sleep, Light

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• He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.

  Karl Kraus

  Life, Sleep, Half

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• "I can't sleep" answered the nervous one.
  "Why not?" asked the friend.
  "I am carrying so much cotton that I can't sleep thinking about. It is wearing me out. What can I do?"
  "Sell down to the sleeping point", answered the friend.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Sleep, Thinking, Why Not

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• If you can't sleep at night because of your stock market position, then you have gone too far. If this is the case, then sell your position down to the sleeping level.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Sleep, Night, Gone

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• I'm a walking zombie and I think I'm going to be like that for a while.

  Tiffani Thiessen

  Sleep, Thinking, Zombie

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• It's late at night and I can't sleep.
  Missing you just runs too deep.
  Oh I can't breathe, thinking of your smile.
  Every kiss I can't forget, this aching heart ain't broken yet.
  Oh God I wish I could make you see
  Cause I know this flame isn't dying
  So nothing can stop me from trying
  Baby you know that
  Maybe it's time for miracles
  Cause I ain't giving up on love
  You know that maybe it's time for miracles
  Cause I ain't giving up on love
  No I ain't giving up on us

  Adam Lambert

  Long Distance Relationship, Running, Thinking Of You

  Song: Time For Miracles, Album: For Your Entertainment, 2009

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• They tell you that at his age, all they do is eat, sleep, and poop. And what I've learned is they can actually do all three at the same time. Who knew?

  Josh Duhamel

  Sleep, Age, Poop

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• First thing in the morning, we're really tired, and we look at each other and we wonder, 'Are we ever going to get sleep?' And yet, it doesn't matter if you don't get sleep. It's an honor to take care of them.

  Angelina Jolie

  Morning, Tired, Sleep

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• Embrace it. Especially because of the lives we live, a lot of times other people have to care for [our kids] and you have to have that mommy time, Get your sleep!

  Jennifer Hudson

  Sleep, Kids, People

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• When I walked into the Christian section of a bookstore, the message was clear: Faith is something you do alone. Rick does not have much tolerance for people living alone. He's like Bill Clinton in that he feels everyone's pain. If Rick thinks somebody is lonely, he can't sleep at night. He wants us all to live with each other and play nice so he can get some rest. Tortured soul.

  Donald Miller

  Christian, Lonely, Pain

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.105, Thomas Nelson Inc

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