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Sometimes I sit up late with my thoughts, reluctant to fall asleep and leave my thoughts alone by themselves.
I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... Without the satisfaction.
I've been having a lot of trouble sleeping as we all should. I dunno. You don't live that long. It doesn't matter.
So there's a few different ways that we treat insomnia. The first thing that we always do is we look at the cause.
There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.
Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound.
It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity, Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify, Weary bodies refresh and mollify.
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.
I did a Norwegian film called 'Insomnia' that was remade and that was a good remake by a good director, so I'm honoured.
Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Many of depression's symptoms - exhaustion, insomnia, nausea, headaches, weight loss, weight gain - are physical ailments.
Insomnia never comes to a man who has to get up exactly at six o'clock. Insomnia troubles only those who can sleep any time.
For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.
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.
Since seeing Max Kirsten for insomnia - I'm finally achieving a good night's sleep, its just wonderful. He's my new secret weapon!
I don't know if you've ever had insomnia, but it's a really terrible feeling when it's days and weeks on end. It was kind of awful.
I was 13 when I had my first bout of insomnia. My family was in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the summer, and day never really became night.
I think Vegas is the answer for pregnant people because of insomnia. It's open all the time and you go down and play your silly slots.
Whoever eats anything at a wedding luncheon? They make the food out of papier mache. My salad had been used four or five times this week.
While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their insomnia.
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.
Meditation gives you back one or two sleep cycles every time you do it. Do it every day and it goes quite a long way towards helping insomnia.
I have no problem with my hips - I can still do the things that I used to do. I can run, I'm just not the fastest person on the field anymore.
A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.
In general, there are patients with insomnia who - many patients with insomnia will actually over report the lack of sleep that they are getting.
When you're gripped by anxiety, worry, insomnia, or panic, make yourself shiver, quiver, tremble, and shudder. It seems silly, but it really works.
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
Part of how easily we go to sleep is genetic: many sleep disturbances, ranging from insomnia to circadian disruption, have a large genetic component.
The fact that insomnia is associated with depression suggests that sleep might help us deal with emotionally stressful or otherwise disruptive events.
I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays.
And if I do fall asleep, Marla has to keep track of Tyler. Where he goes. What he does. So maybe during the day, I can rush around and undo the damage.
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.
Insomnia is an indication, not a chaos. Its like ache. Youre not going to provide a patient ache medicine without figuring out whats reasoning the pain.
All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper. No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of parting with consciousness is unspeakably repulsive to me.
He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.
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.
Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul.
If you're a traveling artist, you probably experience insomnia at some point. You need things to be the right temperature, the right light... it's essential.
In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.
The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.