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Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest.
Call me a sinner, Mock me maliciously: I was your insomnia, I was your grief.
Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.
I take politics only medicinally, as a cure of occasional attacks of insomnia.
Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.
I felt very bad and could not sleep until 1am. Maybe he could coach me defence.
There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours oblivion.
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.
I'm so tired, but I can't sleep. Standing on the edge of something much too deep.
I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.
For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.
Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.
No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.
My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.
Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
I am convinced that during bouts of insomnia, I have sometimes slept without knowing it.
I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.
Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.
Know what the best thing about insomnia is? That I get to stay up all night figuring it out.
Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.
I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?
Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
I've had insomnia since I was five years old. I just don't require much sleep. I'm never tired.
President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record.
Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia.
There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons.
For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night's rest.
I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night!
I've lived with insomnia for many years, but I'm making it a priority to address my sleep problems.
The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.
When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
I sometimes suffer from insomnia. And when I can't fall asleep, I play what I call the alphabet game.
Whenever I’m suffering from insomnia, I just look at a picture of a Toyota Camry and I’m straight off.
I'm making tapes for insomniacs to use in the future. I'm going to sell them as a kit to cure insomnia.
But no one ever is allowed in Sleepytown, unless He goes to bed in time to take the Sleepytown Express!
He gets into the habit of thinking so passionately at night that he begins to be persecuted by insomnia.
Unfortunately, I suffer from insomnia, so my bedtime is as soon as I start to feel the least bit sleepy.
I have insomnia, and it's hard for me to sit still for a long time. My mind is always "tick, tick, tick."
My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night.
The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord.
When you're in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they're so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool.