Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antonio Tabucchi

I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

Barbara Kingsolver

Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.

Alain de Botton

Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.

Elizabeth Bishop

Insomnia" perhaps she's a daytime sleeper.

Delia Smith

I don't get insomnia, but I do get the odd night when I can't unwind.

Chuck Palahniuk

With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep.

Jeremy Clarkson

Whenever I’m suffering from insomnia, I just look at a picture of a Toyota Camry and I’m straight off.

H. G. Wells

You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady.