Best 246 quotes in «insomnia quotes» category

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

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.

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.

I don't get insomnia, but I do get the odd night when I can't unwind.

Counting your blessings is a better cure for insomnia than counting sheep - you can fall asleep before you get through half of them.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.

For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of any interest to me.

How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.

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.

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

December is the most difficult month. Medications for insomnia or depression go up during the month of December. A lot of people who experience loss feel that loss magnified in December. Everybody seems happy and you feel all alone. You're not all alone.

Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.

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.

His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours.

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.

I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past.

If we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won't change the inevitable; but we will change ourselves. I know. I have tried it. I once refused to accept an inevitable situation with which I was confronted. I played the fool and railed against it, and rebelled. I turned my nights into hells of insomnia. I brought upon myself everything I didn't want. Finally, after a year of self-torture, I had to accept what I knew from the outset I couldn't possible alter.

I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

I have insomnia, and it's hard for me to sit still for a long time. My mind is always "tick, tick, tick.

I'm kind of an insomniac and watch TV late at night.

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

I'm making tapes for insomniacs to use in the future. I'm going to sell them as a kit to cure insomnia.

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.

In general, there are patients with insomnia who - many patients with insomnia will actually over report the lack of sleep that they are getting.

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

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

Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.

Insomnia never comes to a man who has to get up exactly at six o'clock. Insomnia troubles only those who can sleep any time.

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

Insomnia is an indication, not a chaos. Its like ache. Youre not going to provide a patient ache medicine without figuring out whats reasoning the pain.

Insomnia" perhaps she's a daytime sleeper.

Insomnia is only mind over mattress.

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

In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.

I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

I originally started it to help me with anxiety & insomnia. It’s already made my life waaaaaaaaaaaaaay better & even with my stage fright. Which I used to think there was no cure for…Last night was the first night I’ve slept 8 hours naturally in my entire life. I felt the best I have in ages. It’s better than any medication or all of the other nonsense I’ve tried.

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

I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays.

It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

I think the films Insomnia and Memento share all sorts of thematic concerns, such as the relationship between motivation and action, and the difficulty of reconciling your view of the story with the supposed objective view of that story.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

I've been having a lot of trouble sleeping as we all should. I dunno. You don't live that long. It doesn't matter.

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

I was proud of working 18 hours a day and sleeping three hours a night. It's something now that has turned into a problem for me: not being able to sleep... having insomnia.

Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.

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...

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

It was daunting at first. I did have insomnia for two weeks.