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.

I did a Norwegian film called 'Insomnia' that was remade and that was a good remake by a good director, so I'm honoured.

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.

It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbour's as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

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

And Cindi came up with a new trick to use if she was having trouble falling asleep: "Counting backward from 300 by threes—it works like magic and you never get below 250." On the few occasions when I feel too wired to sleep, my panacea is a hot bath with my favorite bath salts.

Insomnia never comes to a man who has to get up exactly at six o'clock. Insomnia troubles only those who can sleep any time.

How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.

The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.

He was born sleepless without a talent for rest or the desire for it. --Cecelia Brady about Stahr

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.

'Sleepless' was the first thing that came out and really gained a lot of traction online.