Top Insomnia Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Insomnia quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Matthew Dickman
When I dance with him, one of my great loves, he is absolutely human, and when he turns to dip me or I step on his foot because we are both leading, I know that one of us will die first and the other will suffer. The slow dance of what’s to come and the slow dance of insomnia pouring across the floor like bath water.
- Matthew Dickman
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Image of James J. Montague
But no one ever is allowed in Sleepytown, unless He goes to bed in time to take the Sleepytown Express!
- James J. Montague
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Image of Jeremy Clarkson
Whenever I’m suffering from insomnia, I just look at a picture of a Toyota Camry and I’m straight off.
- Jeremy Clarkson
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Image of Alistair Sinclair
Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia.
- Alistair Sinclair
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Image of Kenneth Hare
I take politics only medicinally, as a cure of occasional attacks of insomnia.
- Kenneth Hare
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Image of Jonathan Turley
I'm making tapes for insomniacs to use in the future. I'm going to sell them as a kit to cure insomnia.
- Jonathan Turley
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Image of Peter Ruric
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
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Image of John Dyer
I use a wide selection of colours. It is impossible to produce work like mine using only the primary colours as they only mix a certain range of colour.
- John Dyer
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Image of Chris Frantz
It was daunting at first. I did have insomnia for two weeks.
- Chris Frantz
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Image of Anne Reeve Aldrich
There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours oblivion.
- Anne Reeve Aldrich
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Image of Shelby Harris
So there's a few different ways that we treat insomnia. The first thing that we always do is we look at the cause.
- Shelby Harris
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Image of Shelby Harris
We try not using medications initially, and we use something called behavioral therapy for insomnia. This changes behaviors people do in bed, none of the tossing and turning.
- Shelby Harris
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Image of Lorrie Moore
I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?
- Lorrie Moore
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Image of William Styron
A disruption of the circadian cycle—the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday life—seems to be involved in many, if not most, cases of depression; this is why brutal insomnia so often occurs and is most likely why each day’s pattern of distress exhibits fairly predictable alternating periods of intensity and relief.
- William Styron
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Image of Chuck Palahniuk
With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep.
- Chuck Palahniuk
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Image of Russell Simmons
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
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Image of H. G. Wells
You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady.
- H. G. Wells
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Image of Cate Blanchett
When I have my moments of insomnia, youll find me on style.com.
- Cate Blanchett
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Image of Elizabeth Bishop
Insomnia" perhaps she's a daytime sleeper.
- Elizabeth Bishop
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Image of Vladimir Nabokov
All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper. No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of parting with consciousness is unspeakably repulsive to me.
- Vladimir Nabokov
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Image of Ryan Reynolds
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
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Image of Emile M. Cioran
Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity of the world, leaving you prey to your private obsessions.
- Emile M. Cioran
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Image of Louis-Ferdinand Celine
My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.
- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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Image of Emile M. Cioran
What is that one crucifixion compared to the daily kind any insomniac endures?
- Emile M. Cioran
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Image of Cindy Crawford
I also turn to homeopathic remedies for the treatment of indigestion, travel sickness, insomnia and hay fever just to name a few. Homeopathy offers a safe, natural alternative that causes no side effects or drug interactions.
- Cindy Crawford
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Image of Elizabeth Gaskell
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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Image of James Joyce
That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia.
- James Joyce
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Image of Cheyenne Jackson
I have insomnia, and it's hard for me to sit still for a long time. My mind is always "tick, tick, tick."
- Cheyenne Jackson
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Image of Sherrilyn Kenyon
Yeah. And Savitar predates him. He has presided over this council since the very beginning, and notice, Savitar looks about thirty. We don’t know what he is, but he ain’t one of us and he ain’t human. And trust me, you don’t want to mess with him. (Paris) Thank you for that highly unamusing summation. Next time I have insomnia, I know who to call. In the meantime, little lioness who would probably like to live another year, don’t interrupt me again. I don’t like it and I tend to kill the things I don’t like. (Savitar)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Image of Barbara Kingsolver
Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.
- Barbara Kingsolver
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Image of Shelby Harris
Well, the actual function of the brain, not so sure yet. There's a lot of different theories about it, but when you talk about psychologically in your brain, a lot of people with insomnia, though not all, report that they can't turn their minds off.
- Shelby Harris
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