Insomnia Quotes - Page 8

• Certain kinds of knowledge rob people of their sleep.

  Haruki Murakami

  Sleep, People, Kind

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.410, Random House

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• I sometimes suffer from insomnia and one of the first times it ever happened I was like, "I don't know what to do with myself," so I started writing a song and by morning it was finished. It was about how I couldn't sleep... I was 14.

  Eliot Paulina Sumner

  Song, Morning, Writing

  "The Self-Aware Solo Artist". Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2015.

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• Ruthless and arrogant though power can appear, it is only ever held by mere mammals who excrete and yearn, and who suffer from insomnia and insecurity. These mammals are also necessarily vain in the ­extreme, and often wish to be liked almost as much as they desire to be feared.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Power, Insecurity, Suffering

  Christopher Hitchens (2001). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• 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

  Dream, Morning, Strange Places

  Raymond Carver (2015). “Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories”, p.391, Vintage

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

  Andrew Young

  Power, Use, Morality

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• When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

  Simone Weil

  Lying, Doors, Grace

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• I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.

  Max Walker

  Brain, Half, Want

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

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• I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

  Mark Twain

  Taken, Sleep, Exercise

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Good Night, Dream

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 4, sc. 1, l. 148

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• No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

  Ronald Reagan

  Time, Matter, Cabinets

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Sleep, Sheep, Honey

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• Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

  John Heywood

  Inspirational, Hope, Heart

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.461

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• Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.

  John Ciardi

  Business, Sleep, Bed

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• You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady.

  H. G. Wells

  Long, Mind, Done

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.3207, Delphi Classics

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• Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear, your head like the golden rod, and we will go sailing away from here to the beautiful Land Of Nod.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Beautiful, Land, Sailing

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.723, Delphi Classics

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• It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

  Tracy Chevalier

  Inspiring, Book, Reading

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• At first, I could lie about my lack of sleep and she'd fall for it, but she started suspecting insomnia when I began seeing purple elephants in the air vents at the office. I knew I shouldn't have asked her about them. I thought maybe she'd redecorated.

  Darynda Jones

  Lying, Fall, Sleep

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.11, Macmillan

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• Yeah. And Savitar predates him. He has presided over this council since the very beginning, and notice, Savitar looks about thirty. We don’t know what he is, but he ain’t one of us and he ain’t human. And trust me, you don’t want to mess with him. (Paris) Thank you for that highly unamusing summation. Next time I have insomnia, I know who to call. In the meantime, little lioness who would probably like to live another year, don’t interrupt me again. I don’t like it and I tend to kill the things I don’t like. (Savitar)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Years, Paris, Lioness

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• 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

  Sleep, Men, Sight

  Jerome K. Jerome, Geoffrey Harvey (2008). “Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel”, p.34, Oxford University Press

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• 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

  Feet, Water, Great Love

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• I am strongly of the opinion that, after the age of twenty-one, a man ought not to be out of bed and awake at four in the morning. The hour breeds thought. At twenty-one, life being all future, it may be examined with impunity. But, at thirty, having become an uncomfortable mixture of future and past, it is a thing to be looked at only when the sun is high and the world full of warmth and optimism.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Morning, Past, Men

  P. G. Wodehouse (2011). “The Little Nugget”, p.40, The Floating Press

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• When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Sleep, Impossible, Get Away

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• Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

  Gregory Maguire

  Sleep, Wake Up, Waking

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• Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win.

  Adam Young

  Book, Reading, Winning

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

  Charles Simic

  Night, Agency, Advertising

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