“I think the most common cause of insomnia is simple; it’s loneliness.” — Heath Ledger
“I find the nights long, for I sleep but little, and think much.”― Charles Dickens, Bleak House
“When you have insomnia, you’re never really asleep, and you’re never really awake.” — Chuck Palahniuk
“Of all the things which make up our Short-Time lives, sleep is surely the best.” ― Stephen King, Insomnia
Insomnia: A contagious disease often transmitted from babies to parents. -Shannon Fife
“It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.” —Baltasar Gracian
“The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
“My mind decides to run when normal people sleep.” — Unknown
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.Judith Owens
“Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night… without the satisfaction.” — Lynn Johnston
“The scary thing about having insomnia is not the hours lost for sleeping but the re-run of thoughts you’ve been trying to forget.” — Unknown
“At night, I can’t sleep. In the morning, I can’t wake up.” — Unknown
“Insomnia is just another word for chit chat with the demons during bedtime.” — Daniel Saint
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. - Charlotte Brontë
If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he’d make a fortune. - Griff Niblack
“The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.” ― Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers
“Think what devils chase a man who cannot sleep in his own house.”― Warren Eyster, The Goblins of Eros
The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets. – Poppy Z. Brite
Sleeping is so hard when you can’t stop thinking about someone. – Author Unknown
I’ve always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed. – David Benioff
“I’m an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.” – Pete Wentz, Gray
“The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.” – Joseph Cossman
“The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.” – Leonard Cohen
“Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.” – Clifton Fadiman
“I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented.” ― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
Written by Matthew Hermann