I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.
I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?
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.
Counting your blessings is a better cure for insomnia than counting sheep - you can fall asleep before you get through half of them.
That's the advantage of insomnia. People who go to be early always complain that the night is too short, but for those of us who stay up all night, it can feel as long as a lifetime. You get a lot done
For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of any interest to me.
Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
Sometimes I sit up late with my thoughts, reluctant to fall asleep and leave my thoughts alone by themselves.
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things than not being able to sleep for thinking about them. It is 5 a. m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.
President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record.
Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine!
My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.
For six months I couldn't sleep. With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.
I have such bad insomnia and sometimes with insomnia, you can sort of relax and read a book, but anyone who has insomnia knows that other times, it generates incredible anxiety.
O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.
Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.
Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.
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.