Best 246 quotes in «insomnia quotes» category

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

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

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

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 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’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.

Insomnia is only mind over mattress.

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.

Insomnia" perhaps she's a daytime sleeper.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I used to think anxiety and insomnia drove me to success, but it was the stillness that let me be good at anything. When you extend the seconds of stillness, that's when you're able to think and learn.

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.

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

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

I use a wide selection of colours. It is impossible to produce work like mine using only the primary colours as they only mix a certain range of colour.

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 was back on track, raring to go and then the insomnia kicked in. When you don't sleep, your faculties are not as sharp as they would normally be. My memory has been affected, I'm not as mentally agile as I would be if I were sleeping properly. I can't work because to act you need to be able to learn your lines and I can't do that at the moment. Insomnia is awful. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

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.

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

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

I've had insomnia since I was a little kid and I never sleep well. Sometimes I sleep very badly and sometimes I sleep slightly badly. I get it especially when I'm on tour because you cross a lot of time zones, and I'm not very adaptable.

Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity of the world, leaving you prey to your private obsessions.