Quotes by Insomnia But Mr. Hale resolved that he would not be disturbed by any such nonsensical idea; so he lay awake, determining not to think about it. Elizabeth Gaskell insomniaideasthinking Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up. Ellen Goodman good-morninginsomniasleep 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. Ella Wheeler Wilcox landinsomniabeautiful I only sleep with people I love, which is why I have insomnia. Emilie Autumn insomniasleeppeople 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. Emily Lloyd insomniasleepmemories What is that one crucifixion compared to the daily kind any insomniac endures? Emile M. Cioran endurekindinsomnia The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational animal when other animals are equally reasonable? But there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot. Emile M. Cioran insomniasleepanimal What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights! Emile M. Cioran tunesinsomnianight 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. Emile M. Cioran diversitylightinsomnia In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time. Emile M. Cioran insomniasleeptime 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. Emile M. Cioran parentinsomnianight Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture. Emile M. Cioran tortureparadiseinsomnia The Sixth Sense is not a good white film. Insomnia is not a good white film. They're just good films. So why we can't we have good films that happen to have black people, or Asian, or Latino, or any other minority group in them? Eriq La Salle whiteinsomniapeople He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it. Ernest Hemingway insomniasleeplying While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their insomnia. Evgeny Morozov ethicalinsomniasleep The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to. F. Scott Fitzgerald insomniasleeptrying There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things than not being able to sleep for thinking about them. It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse. Fleur Adcock betrayalinsomniasleep It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations. F. Scott Fitzgerald insomniasleepmen The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. Gaston Bachelard soulinsomniasleep I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night! Gerard Manley Hopkins darkinsomnianight«1234567891011»
