Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
I've always envied people who sleep easily. 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.
Throughout Asia and Europe, pearls were traditionally believed to ease a range of conditions, including eye diseases, fever, insomnia, 'female complaints', dysentery, whooping cough, measles, loss of virility, and bed-wetting. . . Though nobody seems to advertise the potential for pearls to cure bed-wetting anymore.
When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room.
We try not using medications initially, and we use something called behavioral therapy for insomnia. This changes behaviors people do in bed, none of the tossing and turning.
For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.
What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights!
He gets into the habit of thinking so passionately at night that he begins to be persecuted by insomnia.
Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.
Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear, your head like the golden rod, and we will go sailing away from here to the beautiful Land Of Nod.
His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours.
For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night's rest.
I've had insomnia since I was five years old. I just don't require much sleep. I'm never tired.
Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.
Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.
There are some patients who just have insomnia and they've had it since they were a kid and we don't quite know why. So when we look at the cause, we definitely want to treat whatever else is going on, but insomnia often because it becomes its own diagnosis and that requires its own treatment.
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
