Sleeplessness Quotes
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![Ernest Hemingway](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1654446435i/1455._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― A Clean Well-Lighted Place
― A Clean Well-Lighted Place
![Ray Bradbury](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1445955959i/1630._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Oh God, midnight’s not bad, you wake and go back to sleep, one or two’s not bad, you toss but sleep again. Five or six in the morning, there’s hope, for dawn’s just under the horizon. But three, now, Christ, three A.M.! Doctors say the body’s at low tide then. The soul is out. The blood moves slow. You’re the nearest to dead you’ll ever be save dying. Sleep is a patch of death, but three in the morn, full wide-eyed staring, is living death! You dream with your eyes open. God, if you had strength to rouse up, you’d slaughter your half-dreams with buckshot! But no, you lie pinned to a deep well-bottom that’s burned dry. The moon rolls by to look at you down there, with its idiot face. It’s a long way back to sunset, a far way on to dawn, so you summon all the fool things of your life, the stupid lovely things done with people known so very well who are now so very dead – And wasn’t it true, had he read somewhere, more people in hospitals die at 3 A.M. than at any other time...”
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
![Patrick deWitt](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1225095402i/1041872._UX200_CR0,12,200,200_.jpg)
“The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.”
― The Sisters Brothers
― The Sisters Brothers
![Dee Remy](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1330017599i/5320901._UY200_CR19,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Dark circles under my eyes sink deeper and deeper into my skull, in contrast to my pale skin there is an undeniable resemblance to a fresh corpse.”
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![Jenny Offill](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1566942988i/33794._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell my brain? But in the morning my daughter asks me what a cloud is and I cannot say.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
![J.L. Merrow](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1265681533i/2980235._UX200_CR0,44,200,200_.jpg)
“It's sad to fall asleep. It separates people. Even when you're sleeping together, you're all alone.”
― Pricks and Pragmatism
― Pricks and Pragmatism
![William Shakespeare](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1654446514i/947._UY200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.”
― Romeo and Juliet
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.”
― Romeo and Juliet
![Jane Austen](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651510251i/1265._UX200_CR0,4,200,200_.jpg)
“And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed with thorns and wet with tears. And lucky may she think herself, if she get another good night's rest in the course of the next three months.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
![Elizabeth Gaskell](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1223499865i/1413437._UX200_CR0,37,200,200_.jpg)
“She lay down and never stirred. To move hand or foot, or even so much as one finger, would have been an exertion beyond the powers of either volition or motion. She was so tired, so stunned, that she thought she never slept at all; her feverish thoughts passed and repassed the boundary between sleeping and waking, and kept their own miserable identity.”
― North and South
― North and South
![Anne Fadiman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1202836366i/7982.jpg)
“Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever wanted to do anything but write. The crowded city, the crowded apartment, and the crowded calendar suddenly seem spacious. Three or four hours pass in a moment; I have no idea what time it is, because I never check the clock. If I chose to listen, I could hear the swish of taxis bound for downtown bars or the soft saxophone riffs that drift from a neighbor's window, but nothing gets through. I am suspended in a sensory deprivation tank, and the very lack of sensation is delicious.”
― At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays
― At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays
![Jim Henson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1208316138i/4427._UX200_CR0,32,200,200_.jpg)
“Sometimes I have trouble falling asleep but it's not so bad
I don't worry and I don't weep. In fact I'm glad.
Because I get up off my pillow and I flip on the light.
I get down and get hip in the still of the night I stretch and I yawn and then I breathe real deep And dance myself to sleep.
I hoof around my beddie just a-tappin' my toes
Before I know what's happened I'm a-ready to doze
Got some partners I can count the boogie-woogie sheep
I dance myself to sleep.”
― It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider
I don't worry and I don't weep. In fact I'm glad.
Because I get up off my pillow and I flip on the light.
I get down and get hip in the still of the night I stretch and I yawn and then I breathe real deep And dance myself to sleep.
I hoof around my beddie just a-tappin' my toes
Before I know what's happened I'm a-ready to doze
Got some partners I can count the boogie-woogie sheep
I dance myself to sleep.”
― It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider
![Françoise Sagan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1596921136i/1357577._UX200_CR0,1,200,200_.jpg)
“Понякога се пробуждах посред нощ, с пресъхнала уста, и преди още да изплувам от съня, нещо ми пошушваше да заспя пак, да се гмурна обратно в топлината, в безсъзнателността като в единствено затишие. Но вече си казвах: „Просто съм жадна, достатъчно е да се изправя, да ида до умивалника, да пия вода и пак да заспя”. Ала щом станех, щом видех в огледалото собствения си образ, смътно осветен от уличната лампа, щом хладката вода започнеше да се стича в гърлото ми, тогава отчаянието ме завладяваше и с истинско усещане за физическа болка си лягах отново, зъзнейки. Просвах се по корем, обхванала глава в ръце, и притисках тяло о кревата, сякаш любовта ми към Люк бе горещо и смъртоносно животинче, което в бунта си бих могла да премажа между кожата си и чаршафите. И битката се разразяваше. Паметта, въображението се превръщаха в жестоки врагове. Лицето на Люк, Кан, какво е било и какво би могло да бъде. И неспир отпорът на тялото ми, което бе сънено, на разума ми, който бе отвратен. Вирвах глава, съставях уравнения:”Аз съм аз, Доминик. Обичам Люк, който не ме обича. Несподелена любов, задължителна мъка. Точка.”
― A Certain Smile
― A Certain Smile
![Hernan Diaz](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604338023i/392822._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Sleeplessness kept claiming her nights, and she used books as shields against the onslaught of her abstract terrors.”
― Trust
― Trust
![Alice Oseman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1603122242i/7789423._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Seriously, who falls asleep that quickly? Imagine being able to sleep without listening to a true crime podcast episode or immersing yourself in your imaginary dreamworld for at least an hour.”
― Loveless
― Loveless
![Haruki Murakami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1615497402i/3354._UX200_CR0,5,200,200_.jpg)
“I close my eyes, but I can’t fall asleep, my body dying for the rest while my mind’s wide awake.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
![Patricia Morrisroe](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1425680128i/176992._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Right now, our model is the culture of exhaustion. We need to be exhausted before we can fall asleep, so we keep pushing and pushing ourselves. But if a society can't rest, how can it sleep?”
― Wide Awake: What I Learned About Sleep from Doctors, Drug Companies, Dream Experts, and a Reindeer Herder in the Arctic Circle
― Wide Awake: What I Learned About Sleep from Doctors, Drug Companies, Dream Experts, and a Reindeer Herder in the Arctic Circle
![Lisa Wingate](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1708730120i/178832._UX200_CR0,10,200,200_.jpg)
“Sleep finally comes like a summer dry river, a trickle that's shallow and splits around rocks and downed branches and tree roots, dividing and dividing, till by morning it's the thin bead of gathered morning dew, dripping lazy off the army tent overhead.”
― The Book of Lost Friends
― The Book of Lost Friends
“Fog borne of fatigue, fog of early morning,
of restless middle-years sleeplessness, fog of cat
hair in my eye, of dog, dogs, fog of darkness, fog
of dreary days under a pseudo-autocracy, funk
fog of high crimes and misdemeanors, fog of my daily
compulsion toward work I do not want to do.”
― Worldly Things
of restless middle-years sleeplessness, fog of cat
hair in my eye, of dog, dogs, fog of darkness, fog
of dreary days under a pseudo-autocracy, funk
fog of high crimes and misdemeanors, fog of my daily
compulsion toward work I do not want to do.”
― Worldly Things
![Hilary Leichter](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1683647151i/17333434._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“I dozed off with my head tilted all the way forward, as if sleep were a somersault I couldn’t complete.”
― Temporary
― Temporary
![Eugène Ionesco](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1474565529i/7689._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I feel so tired, so tired . . . worn out, heavy. I’ve got indigestion
and my tummy’s all blown out. I feel sleepy all the time.”
― Amédée, ya da nasıl başından atarsın onu
and my tummy’s all blown out. I feel sleepy all the time.”
― Amédée, ya da nasıl başından atarsın onu
“From a certain age onwards, sleep never came easily to me and, the more problems kept piling up, the less I mingled with Morpheus.”
― Eleanora's Sundown
― Eleanora's Sundown
![Franz Kafka](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1615573688i/5223._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“A few days ago I resumed that 'war-service' - or, more correctly, 'manoeuvre' life, which I discovered years ago to be the most suitable for myself at certain times. Sleeping in bed in the afternoon as long as possible, then walking about for two hours, then staying awake as long as possible. But in this 'long as possible' lies the hitch. 'It isn't possible for long', not in the afternoon, not at night, and yet I'm actually wilted when I get to the office in the morning. And the real prize lies hidden in the depths of the night, in the second, third, fourth hour; but nowadays if I don't go to bed at latest around midnight, night and day and I myself are lost.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
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