Best 246 quotes in «insomnia quotes» category

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

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 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.

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

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.

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

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.

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'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.

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

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

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.

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

Insomnia is only mind over mattress.

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 prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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

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...

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.