Best 246 quotes in «insomnia quotes» category

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

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.

All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper. No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of parting with consciousness is unspeakably repulsive to me.

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.

Another intruder that plagues our good health is sleeplessness. Insomnia is much like constipation in that stress or nervous tension can bring it on or aggravate it until there's almost no coping with it. That's why you find sleeping pills in so many medicine cabinets next to the laxatives.

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.

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

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

Fatigue is the best pillow.

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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 kind of an insomniac and watch TV late at night.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.