Emile M. Cioran Quotes About Insomnia
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Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity of the world, leaving you prey to your private obsessions.
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What is that one crucifixion compared to the daily kind any insomniac endures?
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In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.
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What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights!
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The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational animal when other animals are equally reasonable? But there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot.
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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.
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Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.
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