All those impressions become somehow simultaneous in her mind, as if they had all been written on top of each other. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.In her 2008 book The Years, the French writer Annie Ernaux evokes the feeling experienced by a woman waking up in mid-afternoon after a post-coital snooze with her lover, and experiencing the return of many other moments in her life, from childhood on, when she similarly found herself waking from afternoon slumber. “Nighttime is really the best time to work. “A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.”― Marcel Proustĩ2. “How do people go to sleep? I’m afraid I’ve lost the knack.” ― Dorothy Parker Quotes About Insomnia “When I feel well and in a good humor, or when I am taking a drive or walking after a good meal, or in the night when I cannot sleep, thoughts crowd into my mind as easily as you could wish.” ― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozartĩ0.
“Do you know that awesome feeling when you get into bed, fall right asleep, stay asleep all night and wake up feeling refreshed? Me neither.” - UnknownĨ9. “His impatience for sleep often frightened that very sleep away.” ― Hugh HoweyĨ8. The more I’m awake, the more I see, and the harder to sleep.” ― Donna Lynn HopeĨ7. “Sleep is like the tide only this time the moon doesn’t bring it in.” ― I Need You CasĨ6. I’ve come to talk with you again.” ― Paul SimonĨ5. “On the nights I can’t sleep, like that one, like so many recently, I wish I could just turn my mind off like a lamp.” ― Iain ReidĨ4. “If you really want to mess someone up, you sleep deprive them.” ― Steven Mageeħ9. It is a state of longing.” ― Marina Benjaminħ8. “Insomnia, then, is not just a state of sleeplessness, a matter of negatives. “Insomnia is the act of pushing through sleep to achieve the art of insane creativity.” ― Todd Stockerħ7. The light stays on.” ― Barbara Kingsolverħ6. ‘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. More time for reading, writing and walking. But nothing was happening.” ― Ottessa Moshfeghħ4. It was like sitting in a cinema after the lights go down, waiting for the previews to begin. “My brain has too many tabs open.” - Unknownħ3. The other wants to know if penguins have knees.” - Unknownħ2. “Three out of four voices in my head want to sleep. “Insomnia is only mind over mattress.” - Jane Aceħ1. “Sleeplessness comes when my thoughts outweigh the night.” - Terri GuillemetsĤ2. Like, that takes me 4 hours, 600 position changes, and a sacrifice to the sleep gods.” - Unknown Inspiring Insomnia QuotesĤ1. “I hate people who can go to sleep as soon as they close their eyes. “Nothing is louder than overthinking after midnight.” - UnknownĤ0. In the morning, I can’t wake up.” - Unknownģ9. “The worst things: to be in bed and sleep not, to want for one who comes not, to try to please and please not.” - Proverbsģ8. “It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.” - Karen Russellģ7. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.” - Sylvia Plathģ6. “I wonder why I don’t go to bed and go to sleep. “It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.” - Baltasar Gracianģ5. “The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4 a.m. “When you have insomnia, you’re never really asleep, and you’re never really awake.” - Chuck PalahniukĢ9. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.” - David BenioffĢ8. “I’ve always envied people who sleep easily. “Don’t fight with the pillow but lay down your head and kick every worriment out of the bed.” - Edmund Vance CookeĢ7. You have the misery of having partied all night… without the satisfaction.” - Lynn JohnstonĢ6. “Error 404 sleep not found.” - UnknownĢ5. “My day starts backwards … I wake up tired and go to bed wide awake.” - UnknownĢ4. “His insomnia was so bad he couldn’t sleep during office hours.” - Arthur BaerĢ3.
“The scary thing about having insomnia is not the hours lost for sleeping but the re-run of thoughts you’ve been trying to forget.” - UnknownĢ2.