Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cheyenne Jackson

Unfortunately, I suffer from insomnia, so my bedtime is as soon as I start to feel the least bit sleepy.

Cesar Romero

I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.

Charles Kuralt

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

Antonio Tabucchi

I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

Chris Frantz

It was daunting at first. I did have insomnia for two weeks.

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.

Elizabeth Bishop

Insomnia" perhaps she's a daytime sleeper.

Alain de Botton

Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.

Chuck Palahniuk

With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep.

Amy Grant

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

Delia Smith

I don't get insomnia, but I do get the odd night when I can't unwind.

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.

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.

Jose Marti

Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.

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.

Louis de Bernieres

He gets into the habit of thinking so passionately at night that he begins to be persecuted by insomnia.

Emile M. Cioran

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

Emile M. Cioran

What is that one crucifixion compared to the daily kind any insomniac endures?

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.

Eriq La Salle

The Sixth Sense is not a good white film. Insomnia is not a good white film. They're just good films. So why we can't we have good films that happen to have black people, or Asian, or Latino, or any other minority group in them?

Cate Blanchett

When I have my moments of insomnia, youll find me on style.com.

Jeremy Clarkson

Whenever I’m suffering from insomnia, I just look at a picture of a Toyota Camry and I’m straight off.

Carly Rae Jepsen

I know my music is going well when I don't have insomnia.

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.

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.

Jodi Picoult

Any highway . . . they all take you to the same place, don't they?

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.

Lorrie Moore

I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?

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)

Max Walker

I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.

James Joyce

That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia.

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.

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.