Best 246 quotes in «insomnia quotes» category

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 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.

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

Insomnia" perhaps she's a daytime sleeper.

Insomnia is only mind over mattress.

I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

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

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

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

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 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 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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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...

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

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.

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

Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.

Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... Without the satisfaction.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul.

On some nights, he has nowhere to sleep, on others he suffers from insomnia. "That's just how it is," thinks the warrior. "I was the one who chose to walk this path.

O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night.

O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?

O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse.

O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, 1710. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?

People would ask me, 'Is he as funny at home as he is in the movies?' ... I would have to answer, 'Well, he can be funny. But he is also very serious. He has insomnia and if we him up early, he would bawl the hell out of me'.

President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.