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  • Very often, gleams of light come in a few minutes' sleeplessness, in a second perhaps; you must fix them. To entrust them to the relaxed brain is like writing on water; there is every chance that on the morrow there will be no slightest trace left of any happening.

    Writing   Light   Water  
  • Today's competitiveness, so much imposed from without, is exhausting, not exhilarating; is unending-a part of one's social life, one's solitude, one's sleep, one's sleeplessness.

  • As a seasoned insomniac, I knew sometimes the way to beat sleeplessness was to outwit it: to pretend you didn't care about sleeping. Then sometimes sleep became piqued, like a rejected lover, and crept up to try to seduce you.

    Sleep   Trying   Bed  
    Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.379, Open Road Media
  • You lack the season of all natures, sleep.

    'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 141
  • Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self.

    Men   Self   Mind  
    Robert Louis Stevenson (2010). “Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde”, p.118, Bibliolis Books
  • It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.

    Thomas Hardy (2016). “FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.69, e-artnow
  • Sleep is like the unicorn - it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any

    Sleep   Doubt   Unicorn  
  • I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety, dreams - or sleeplessness - melancholy, indifference - desire for life, and the next instant, desire for death; some kind of sweet peace, some kind of numbness, absent-mindedness.

    Life   Dream   Sweet  
    Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.166, Courier Corporation
  • Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.

    Lying   Sleep   Eye  
    William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Plays”, p.37
  • It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body... On the battlefield, in the torture chamber, on a sinking ship, the issues that you are fighting for are always forgotten, because the body swells up until it fills the universe, and even when you are not paralysed by fright or screaming with pain, life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth.

    George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Nineteen eighty-four”
  • Oh love, rose made wet by mermaids and foams, fire that dances and climbs up the invisible stairs and awakens the blood in the tunnel of sleeplessness.

    Love   Fire   Tunnels  
  • Don't buy society’s definition of success. Because it’s not working for anyone. It’s not working for women, it's not working for men, it's not working for polar bears, it's not working for the cicadas that are apparently about to emerge and swarm us. It’s only truly working for those who make pharmaceuticals for stress, sleeplessness and high blood pressure.

    Arianna Huffington's Commencement Address at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, www.smith.edu. May 19, 2013.
  • If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!

    Sleep   Loss   Suffering  
  • Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

    Sleep   Insomnia   Desert  
    Jessamyn West (1986). “Woman Said Yes: Encounters with Life and Death”, Harcourt on Demand
  • When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.

    Love   Spiritual   Sleep  
    Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.147, Penguin UK
  • Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?

    Sex   Loss   Despair  
    "Why Not Me?". Book by Al Franken, www.cnn.com. January 12, 1999.
  • The mind that is full of God is empty of anxiety. Are you troubled, restless, sleepless? Then think of God more!

    Thinking   Anxiety   Mind  
    Twitter post from May 04, 2015
  • Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

    Good Night   Dream   Art  
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.92, Penguin
  • Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.

    Dream   Sweet   Pain  
    Bram Stoker (2015). “Classic Horror Collection: Dracula, Frankenstein, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Jekyll and Hyde, & The Island of Dr. Moreau”, p.134, Xist Publishing
  • lonely people are always up in the middle of the night.

    Lonely   Night   People  
    Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.148, W. W. Norton & Company
  • Emotionally, grief is a mixture of raw feelings such as sorrow, anguish, anger, regret, longing, fear, and deprivation. Grief may be experienced physically as exhaustion, emptiness, tension, sleeplessness, or loss of appetite.

    Regret   Grief   Loss  
    Judy Tatelbaum (2009). “The Courage to Grieve: The Classic Guide to Creative Living, Recovery, and Growth Through Grief”, p.7, Harper Collins
  • Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast...

    Hurt   Sleep   Insomnia  
    'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 36
  • Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.

    Laughter   Pain   Mistake  
    Hippocrates (1967). “Hippocrates”
  • Another intruder that plagues our good health is sleeplessness. Insomnia is much like constipation in that stress or nervous tension can bring it on or aggravate it until there's almost no coping with it. That's why you find sleeping pills in so many medicine cabinets next to the laxatives.

    Stress   Sleep   Insomnia  
    Jack Lalanne (1995). “Revitalize Your Life After Fifty”, Hastings House Pub
  • The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

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