Quotes by Insomnia Time, motion and wine cause sleep. Ovid wineinsomniasleep I am strongly of the opinion that, after the age of twenty-one, a man ought not to be out of bed and awake at four in the morning. The hour breeds thought. At twenty-one, life being all future, it may be examined with impunity. But, at thirty, having become an uncomfortable mixture of future and past, it is a thing to be looked at only when the sun is high and the world full of warmth and optimism. P. G. Wodehouse insomniamorningpast Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity, Ovid soulinsomniasleep The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know. Patrick deWitt lonelyinsomniaspring The mania started with insomnia and not eating and being driven, driven to find an apartment, driven to see everybody, driven to do New York, driven to never shut up. Patty Duke shut-upnew-yorkinsomnia Whoever eats anything at a wedding luncheon? They make the food out of papier mache. My salad had been used four or five times this week. Peter Ruric wedding-dayfourinsomnia Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night. Philip K. Dick good-nightinsomniadepression 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. Philip Sidney insomniasleeppeace 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. Plutarch dreaminsomniasleep The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets. Poppy Z. Brite insomniasleepnight 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. Puff Daddy insomniasleepnight I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to come to. And I don't know how I got here. It's a strange place. It's a place where a little harmless dreaming and then some sleepy, early-morning talk has led me into considerations of death and annihilation. Raymond Carver dreaminsomniamorning Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught the rhythm of them once and for all, in your sleep at night. The city, of course, can wreck it. So much insomnia. So many rhythms collide. The salesgirl, the landlord, the guests, the bystanders, sixteen varieties of social circumstance in a day. Everyone has the power to call your whole life into question here. Too many people have access to your state of mind. Some people are indifferent to dislike, even relish it. Hardly anyone I know. Renata Adler love-youinsomniasleep 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. Richard Baker mooninsomniapeople Acting might bring on emotional exhaustion, but writing tired your brains out. Writing led to depression and insomnia and walking around all day with a haggard look. Richard Yates tiredinsomniawriting Sometimes I sit up late with my thoughts, reluctant to fall asleep and leave my thoughts alone by themselves. Robert Breault insomniasleepfall No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting. Ronald Reagan matterinsomniatime 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. Russell Simmons anxietyinsomniathinking I don't know if you've ever had insomnia, but it's a really terrible feeling when it's days and weeks on end. It was kind of awful. Ryan Reynolds awfulfeelingsinsomnia 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. Samuel Taylor Coleridge queensinsomniasleep«1234567891011»
