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“O Sleep, O Gentle Sleep, Natures Soft Nurse, How Have I Frightend Thee, That Thou No More Wilt Weigh my Eye-Lids Down And Steep My Senses In Forgetfulness?” ― William Shakespeare “sleep is such a luxury, which i cant afford.” ― Robin Sikarwar “In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.” ― Colette “The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.” ― Poppy Z. Brite “Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.” ― Gregory Maguire, A Lion Among Men “I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.” ― David Benioff, City of Thieves “I think insomnia is a sign that a person is interesting.” ― Avery Sawyer, Notes to Self “I felt very bad and could not sleep until 1am. Maybe he could coach me defence.” ― Tamim Iqbal “I only sleep with people I love, which is why I have insomnia.” ― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls “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 “The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.” ― Leonard Cohen “He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the night when the insomniac longs for a third side after trying the two he has.” ― Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin “When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord.” ― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night “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 “It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.” ― Tracy Chevalier “It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped.” ― Kim Stanley Robinson, Icehenge “I feel as though whenever I create something, my Mr. Hyde wakes up in the middle of the night and starts thrashing it. I sometimes love it the next morning, but other times it is an abomination.” ― Criss Jami “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, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories “I fix the cramped, lined pages with my curious stare. How do you come to exist?” ― Kiera Woodhull, Chaos of the Mind “Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to settle, to join the collective nod. The insomniac brain is a sort of conspiracy theorist as well, believing too much in its own paranoiac importance--as though if it were to blink, then doze, the world might be overrun by some encroaching calamity, which its obsessive musings are somehow fending off.” ― Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn “That's the advantage of insomnia. People who go to be early always complain that the night is too short, but for those of us who stay up all night, it can feel as long as a lifetime. You get a lot done” ― Banana Yoshimoto, N.P. |
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