Insomnia Quotes

• Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

  Anthony Burgess

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Anthony Burgess (1986). “Homage to QWERT YUIOP: essays”, Vintage

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• 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

  Sleep, Skulls, Feet

  David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.25, Penguin

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• Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Wise, Money

  Benjamin Franklin (1821). “Essays and Letters”, p.80

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

  Leonard Cohen

  Sleep, World, Lasts

  Leonard Cohen (2003). “The Favorite Game: A Novel”, Vintage Books

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• The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Sleep, Night, Secret

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  Sleep is the best meditation.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Sleep, Trying, World

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• Know what the best thing about insomnia is? That I get to stay up all night figuring it out.

  Olivia Munn

  Night, Figuring It, Best Things

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• Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Perseverance, Motivation, Fear

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• Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Light, Doors, People

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• Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.

  Alain de Botton

  Pain, Injury, Glamorous

  Twitter post from Sep 18, 2012

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• A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Dream, Sleep, Restless Mind

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “The Professor: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.32, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, 1710. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Nurse, Down And

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• Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

  Albert Camus

  Sleep, People, Statistics

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• Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Paradise, Torture, Lucidity

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• Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.

  Jon Stewart

  Inspiration

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• It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

  John Steinbeck

  Life, Good Morning, Adversity

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.180, Penguin

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• Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Dream, Sleep, Thinking

  Clifton Fadiman (1957). “Any Number Can Play”, Cleveland : World Publishing Company

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• What hath night to do with sleep?

  John Milton

  Sleep, Night

  'Comus' (1637) l. 122

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• Love without conversation is impossible.

  Mortimer Adler

  Love, Impossible, Conversation

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• If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

  Dale Carnegie

  Happiness, Lying, Sleep

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• Insomnia is an increasing problem. I've become swayed that sleep disorders are conceivably the most unnoticed, ignored, underrated reason of health as well as performance problems in the place of work.

  Sean Sullivan

  Sleep, Ignored, Problem

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• Sometimes I sit up late with my thoughts, reluctant to fall asleep and leave my thoughts alone by themselves.

  Robert Breault

  Fall, Sleep, Sometimes

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• For six months I couldn't sleep. With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Real, Sleep, Six Months

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• Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sleep

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