quotations about insomnia
Insomnia has this romantic way of making the moon feel like perfect company.
SABRINA BENAIM
Depression & Other Magic Tricks
I think insomnia is a sign that a person is interesting.
AVERY SAWYER
Notes to Self
INSOMNIA = 1:51 A.M. + ETERNITY + 1:52 A.M. + ETERNITY + 1:53 A.M. + ETERNITY
ANONYMOUS
Good sleepers are asleep most of the time they are in bed. As a result, the bed becomes a strong cue for sleep. Insomniacs, however, are awake, usually tense and frustrated, for about one-third of the time that they are in bed. Consequently, the bed becomes a strong cue for wakefulness and frustration. In fact, because some insomniacs are awake in their bed more than they are asleep, the bed becomes a stronger cue for wakefulness than sleep!
GREGG D. JACOBS
Say Good Night to Insomnia
The night is long and insomnia drags out memories
That whirl downstream
LUDWIG ZELLER
"Body of Insomnia"
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
A Clean Well Lighted Place
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH
The Twelve Seasons
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.
When I was a child, I suffered from insomnia. Summer nights, my parents permitted me to sit by the lake; I took the dog for company. Did I say "suffered"? That was my parents' way of explaining tastes that seemed to them inexplicable: better "suffered" than "preferred to live with the dog."
LOUISE GLUCK
"Prism"
Doom is nigh. I am in acute distress, desperately trying to coax sleep, opening my eyes every few seconds to check their faded gleam, and imagining paradise as a place where a sleepless neighbor reads an endless book by the light of an eternal candle.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Speak, Memory
I only sleep with people I love, which is why I have insomnia.
EMILIE AUTUMN
The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls