Insomnia Quotes - Page 3

• Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Good Night, Dream, Art

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.92, Penguin

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• There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Sleep, Night, Hours In The Day

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• On some nights, he has nowhere to sleep, on others he suffers from insomnia. "That's just how it is," thinks the warrior. "I was the one who chose to walk this path."

  Paulo Coelho

  Sleep, Warrior, Night

  "The Manual of the Warrior of Light". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1997.

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• Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine!

  Wallace Shawn

  Sleep, Bedtime, Poor

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• I know my music is going well when I don't have insomnia.

  Carly Rae Jepsen

  Music Is, Wells, Knows

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• Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Sleep, Joy

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.64, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity,
  Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify,
  Weary bodies refresh and mollify.

  Ovid

  Sleep, Soul, Body

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• Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sleep, Eye, Night

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.471, Library of America

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• The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Morning, Sleep, Night

  "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

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• Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.

  John Bunyan

  Sweet, Sleep, Men

  'The Pilgrim's Progress' (1678) pt. 1.

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• 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

  Peace, Sleep, Men

  'Astrophel and Stella' (1591) sonnet 39

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• When I can't sleep I count the buckles on my straightjacket.

  Cathie Linz

  Sleep, Buckles, I Can

  Cathie Linz (2006). “Bad Girls Don't”, p.192, Penguin

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• I'm so tired, but I can't sleep. Standing on the edge of something much too deep.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Tired, Sleep, Standing On The Edge

  "Song: 'I Will Remember You'". 1995.

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• Its at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull. I dont know if anyone has ever pointed out that great attraction of insomnia before, but it is so; the night seems to release a little more of our vast backward inheritance of instincts and feelings; as with the dawn, a little honey is allowed to ooze between the lips of the sandwich, a little of the stuff of dreams to drip into the waking mind.

  Brian Aldiss

  Love, Dream, Sleep

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• Time, motion and wine cause sleep.

  Ovid

  Wine, Sleep, Causes

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• It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Sports, Baseball

  "Stay Sought-After by Connecting Better in Conversation" by Kare Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2014.

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• Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more!
  Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep,
  Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care,
  The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,
  Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
  Chief nourisher in life's feast...

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Sleep, Voice

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 36

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

  Amy Grant

  Experience, Impossible, Mature

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• But no one ever is allowed in Sleepytown, unless He goes to bed in time to take the Sleepytown Express!

  James J. Montague

  Bed, Tooth Fairy

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• When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.

  Rumi

  Love, Spiritual, Sleep

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.147, Penguin UK

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• It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Time, Law, Progress

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• If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Inspirational, Business, Science

  In New Yorker 9 Aug. 1969

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• I've had insomnia since I was five years old. I just don't require much sleep. I'm never tired.

  Nile Rodgers

  Tired, Sleep, Years

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• If feeling anxious about anything Dr Bachs night time rescue remedy is great. Sometimes a bath before bed helps. Burning Lavender or Clary Sage in the room before retiring. Try not to work on my computer very late and then bed straight after. Getting enough exercise definitely helps sleep.

  Rachel Ryan

  Sleep, Exercise, Night

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• I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem.

  Don Winslow

  Morning, Wicked, Problem

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