If we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won't change the inevitable; but we will change ourselves. I know. I have tried it. I once refused to accept an inevitable situation with which I was confronted. I played the fool and railed against it, and rebelled. I turned my nights into hells of insomnia. I brought upon myself everything I didn't want. Finally, after a year of self-torture, I had to accept what I knew from the outset I couldn't possible alter.
When you're gripped by anxiety, worry, insomnia, or panic, make yourself shiver, quiver, tremble, and shudder. It seems silly, but it really works.
I am strongly of the opinion that, after the age of twenty-one, a man ought not to be out of bed and awake at four in the morning. The hour breeds thought. At twenty-one, life being all future, it may be examined with impunity. But, at thirty, having become an uncomfortable mixture of future and past, it is a thing to be looked at only when the sun is high and the world full of warmth and optimism.
The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.
You lack the season of all natures, sleep.
Counting your blessings is a better cure for insomnia than counting sheep - you can fall asleep before you get through half of them.
With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep.
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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.
Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
In general, there are patients with insomnia who - many patients with insomnia will actually over report the lack of sleep that they are getting.
O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse.
In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.
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.
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.
There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act. We surrender to sleep, but in the way that the master entrusts himself to the slave who serves him.
Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.
December is the most difficult month. Medications for insomnia or depression go up during the month of December. A lot of people who experience loss feel that loss magnified in December. Everybody seems happy and you feel all alone. You're not all alone.