Quotes about Insomnia

For six years, from age nineteen until I turned twenty-five, I did not sleep uninterrupted through a single night. . . . I felt lucky to get my shoes on the right feet. . . . I moved forward only, thinking each morning anew that we were leaving the worst behind.

When you're in bed and unable to sleep, the best thing to do is to go back to your breathing.

You have kept my eyes from closing; I am too troubled to speak.

When I lie down I think: ‘When will I get up?’ But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.

That night sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the Book of Records, the Chronicles, to be brought in and read to him.

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

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.

And Sleep will not lie down, but walks Wild-eyed and cries to Time.

There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service to my side are useless as wounded pride, and much more painful.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

As for me, sleep was a country I no longer visited, despite my incantation. When I did, I wished for my waking life, the hours when I didn't see the nightmare images of all that had happened and all I had become.

Without question, I wake every night five times.