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Tag Name "Insomnia" (161)

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Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
Herman Melville
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No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
Ronald Reagan
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Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
Philip K. Dick
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I guess I've been blessed with insomnia because I do a lot of my writing at night. Because I don't sleep as much as I probably should, I have that extra time to write weird stories and think odd thoughts.
Dan Chaon
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I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.
Max Walker
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I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?
Lorrie Moore
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Counting your blessings is a better cure for insomnia than counting sheep - you can fall asleep before you get through half of them.
Densey Clyne
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TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect (Glossina morsitans) whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American novelist (Mendax interminabilis).
Ambrose Bierce
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Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win.
Adam Young
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There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours oblivion.
Anne Reeve Aldrich
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
Dale Carnegie
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My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... Without the satisfaction.
Lynn Johnston
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I think, you know, it was something that I really wanted. I wanted so much to have a son or daughter. We adopted a son. And it was just the most wonderful thing. I think the only thing that was difficult for both Maury and myself were the sleepless nights.
Connie Chung
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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
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Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.
C. S. Lewis
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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
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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein
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When I can't sleep I count the buckles on my straightjacket.
Cathie Linz
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Mistresses are like books if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.
William Wycherley
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What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? Young son, it argues a distemper'd head So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed: Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.
William Shakespeare
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Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.
Miguel de Cervantes
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It was daunting at first. I did have insomnia for two weeks.
Chris Frantz
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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
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