Quotes about Insomnia

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

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

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

The fear of sleeplessness12 results in a hyper-intention to fall asleep, which, in turn, incapacitates the patient to do so. To overcome this particular fear, I usually advise the patient not to try to sleep but rather to try to do just the opposite, that is, to stay awake as long as possible.

I find the nights long, for I sleep but little, and think much.

Even as an adult, as I tried to sleep, my mind was conditioned to stay in a constant state of arousal, prepared for attack.

But his dread was the nights when he could not sleep. Then it was awful indeed, when annihilation pressed in on him on every side. Then it was ghastly, to exist without having any life: lifeless, in the night, to exist.

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

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

I tried and tried to sleep, lulled by the movement, the purring of the motor, and the snores of the other passengers, but it's never been easy for me to sleep, and much less now, when I still have residues of the wild life running through my veins.

This election is about you, your hopes, your dreams, your fears, and what wakes you up at 3 a.m.

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.