Sleepless Quotes

“I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.”
― Pete Wentz, Gray

“When the black thing was at its worst, when the illicit cocktails and the ten-mile runs stopped working, I would feel numb as if dead to the world. I moved unconsciously, with heavy limbs, like a zombie from a horror film. I felt a pain so fierce and persistent deep inside me, I was tempted to take the chopping knife in the kitchen and cut the black thing out I would lie on my bed staring at the ceiling thinking about that knife and using all my limited powers of self-control to stop myself from going downstairs to get it.”
― Alice Jamieson, Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind

“Trust = telling someone about the things that make you sleepless.”
― Hillary Frank, I Can't Tell You

“A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell my brain? But in the morning my daughter asks me what a cloud is and I cannot say.”
― Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation

“Foolishness sleeps soundly, while knowledge turns with each thinking hour, longing for the dawn of answers.”
― Anthony Liccione

“I'm just an insomniac struggling for a night where I don't dream of you anymore.”
― Lone Alaskan Gypsy

“Poems can get
sleepless too

and become

the loneliest thing
in the universe.”
― Sanober Khan

“The reasons we don’t sleep at night are usually the same reasons we don’t truly live during the day.”
― Michael Xavier

“Those who wake at this hour feel a lonely separation from everyone but night birds and ghost crabs, never imagining the legion of kindred souls scattered in the darkness, who stare at ceilings and pace floors and look out windows and covet and worry and mourn.”
― Kathy Hepinstall, Blue Asylum

“I won't take a real nap. I have this halfway place, a rest stop on the road to sleep, where I can stay for hours. I don't even need to close my eyes, just stay safe under the covers and breathe.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“But his dread was the nights when he could not sleep. Then it was awful indeed, when annihilation pressed in on him on every side. Then it was ghastly, to exist without having any life: lifeless, in the night, to exist.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

“My heart can feel the softness of a star
Only when the moon stays afar
I lay my mind on the pillow of sky
Where sleep dares not ever to pry”
― Munia Khan

“If your passion does not keep you sleepless, you can't be a good beginner. When passion itches, a great hand scratches... Wake up, it's your time to rise above idleness!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“I never noticed anything but you
But you but you
So that I couldn't sleep”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

“In their previous lives, poets were bats, and thinkers were owls.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Hail O mighty, fathomless sleep, come on and hug me tight and sweet;
when I whisper those deepest pains, onto your ears mute and keen,
sing for me the sweetest song that would sound the profoundest of life!
Leave me upon your rocking arms, watched by spirits of placid nights!

Goodnight, world, sweet dreams folks, blessed are those who would sleep at peace!”
― Preeth Nambiar, The Solitary Shores

“She yanked up the veil from Sarah’s burka to catch her breath in the night’s thick air. Frantic, Zoe snatched her cell phone from the bedside table. The touchscreen’s dim light painted her frightened silhouette on the bedroom wall.”
― Michael Benzehabe

“When I had lain awake a little awhile, those extraordinary voices with which silence teems, began to make themselves audible. The closet whispered, the fireplace sighed, the little washing-stand ticked, and one guitar-string played occasionally in the chest of drawers.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Third eye of the sea,
the lonely lighthouse
never sleeps.”
― Nanette L. Avery

“My body weeps to live
when you make me believe
that someday I will be dead
soul sleepless in graveyard's bed”
― Munia Khan

“If you cannot sleep, sing to your soul.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I close my eyes, but I can’t fall asleep, my body dying for the rest while my mind’s wide awake.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“If you promote peace and progress for others, I don’t think you will have sleepless nights.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

“AS I SLEEP

I fear that darkness
Finds me
As I sleep
When life is quieted
Midnight’s brutal feet
Cast upon me
Cementing me
Against my pillow
In a heaven
Of black roses”
― Trisha North, Internal Devices: The Faulty Drives Within My Mortal Hardware

“If you cannot sleep, put the sacred energy to use. You can pray, read and write.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Sleep disorders are a known occupational hazard to astronomers and their support staff.”
― Steven Magee

“Sometimes you can't sleep on a feather bed, but you fall asleep peacefully on a cold stone!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Sometimes I’ll lie awake at night and listen to the sound of the clock. The motor ticks on endlessly. What an unsettling sound it is when you’ve yet to find peace - to find solace. Sometimes no matter how exhausted my body is, no matter how tired my thoughts are, no matter how sore my brain and my heart are...even then I still can’t fall asleep. Sometimes I wish for nothing more than to sleep. Please, allow me to slip away into the darkest corners of the world and let me be. Just let me sleep. You can close your eyes to the surroundings, but you can’t close your ears off to the sound around it. And sometimes the things you wish the most not to hear - are the loudest. They will not go away in the night and be silenced.”
― Christina Casino

“Sometimes its the going down itself that brings me out into a cold sweat. Down down ever farther below ground where the arched roof seems like a huge brick tomb.”
― Romy Hausmann

“A migraine walked into the bedroom and said to the body aches, " So, we are linking up with anxiety tonight or nah?”
― Niedria D. Kenny