Insomniac Quotes

• I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.

  Pete Wentz

  Night, Mind, Night Shift

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• I either eat too much or starve myself. Sleep for 14 hours or have insomniac nights. Fall in love very hard or hate passionately. I don't know what grey is. I never did.

  Anais Nin

  Falling In Love, Hate, Sleep

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• 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

  Believe, Insomnia, Race

  FaceBook post by Jonathan Lethem from Jul 01, 2016

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• Oh, insomnia! Ah, well, I know a good cure for it... Get plenty of sleep.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Humorous, Sleep

  "Fictional character: The Great Man". "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break", www.imdb.com. October 10, 1941.

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• As a seasoned insomniac, I knew sometimes the way to beat sleeplessness was to outwit it: to pretend you didn't care about sleeping. Then sometimes sleep became piqued, like a rejected lover, and crept up to try to seduce you.

  Erica Jong

  Sleep, Trying, Bed

  Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.379, Open Road Media

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• Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?" "I give." "You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.

  David Foster Wallace

  Dog, Night, Giving

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• Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?

  David Foster Wallace

  Pain, Agnostic, Infinite Jest

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.39, Hachette UK

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

  Leonard Cohen

  Sleep, Insomnia, World

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

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• Insomniac is an impassioned work-an inspired amalgam of academic and first-hand research, memoir, analysis, and the kind of obsessive brooding we associate with the insomniac state. Much here is fascinating, and much is upsetting; here is a cri de coeur from a lifetime insomniac that is sure to appeal to the vast army of fellow insomniacs the world over.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Army, Hands, Upset

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• Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence.

  Alberto Manguel

  Reading, Excellence, Occupation

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “A Reading Diary”, p.194, Vintage Canada

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• Choices are like connecting highways. They all take you to the same place. Some just take longer to get there.

  Ione Skye

  Choices, Highways, Connecting

  "Fictional character: Frankie". "Dream for an Insomniac", www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• Any highway . . . they all take you to the same place, don't they?

  Jodi Picoult

  Highways

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality

  Gilles Deleuze

  Monsters, Slumber, Reason

  Gilles Deleuze, FeÌl?ix Guattari (2004). “Anti-Oedipus”, p.122, A&C Black

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• I stumbled into this format for 'Last Call with Carson Daly' that I really like, inspired by cable and Dave Attell's 'Insomniac.' I love being out on the street.

  Carson Daly

  Love Is, Lasts, Inspired

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• I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.

  Patti Smith

  Children, Nice, Night

  "The Private World of Patti Smith". Interview with Joan Juliet Buck, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 30, 2015.

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• I'm a bit of an insomniac. I'm always thinking. I've got a lot of ideas for lyrics and shows. I have a notepad by the side of the bed and voice recorders around the house.

  Kid Rock

  Thinking, Ideas, Voice

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• With reference to the younger generation..."If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not to go straight from the classroom to the cubicle to the coffin, it doesn't mean they're lazy. It means they're sane."

  Anna Quindlen

  Mean, Lazy, Cubicles

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• I have met guys who work the overnight shift at 7-11, selling Slurpees and Camels to insomniacs who have more introspection than a lot of people in the mainstream media.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Media, People, Guy

  Interview with Jed Babbin, humanevents.com. February 2, 2009.

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• I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.

  A. J. McLean

  Night, Listening, Bed

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• My name is Sherman J. Alexie Jr., and I am an insomniac.

  Sherman Alexie

  Names

  "Now" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. October 4, 2002.

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• My attention span is all over the place, and I overthink things. I'm an insomniac.

  Selena Gomez

  Attention, Attention Span

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• For every poet it is always morning in the world; history a forgotten, insomniac night. The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world in spite of history.

  Derek Walcott

  Morning, Falling In Love, Fate

  Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.79, Macmillan

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• I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed to have a middle-of-the-night edition for the insomniac reading.

  Rick Moody

  Reading, Night, Cycling

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Insomniacs tend to fall into two general categories - those who give up and those who don't. I don't. I refuse to admit defeat by turning on the light. I will not try to read or watch a movie, thank you. Productivity is a crutch of the weak.

  Sloane Crosley

  Thank You, Giving Up, Fall

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• Olivia Newton-John - Australia's gift to insomniacs. It's nothing but the blonde singing the bland.

  Minnie Riperton

  Australia Day, Singing, Blonde

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