72 Quotes About Sleeplessness

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!

It is at night when sleep like the outgoing sea leaves you dry and cold and the morning light arrives like a small punishment.

The last thing she remembered before finally drifting off was how nice Steffi's hair smelled.

Bedtime is fraught with fear and disappointment. When it is just me alone with my restless body and mind, I feel like the whole world is asleep and gone. It's very lonely. I am tired of being tired and talking about how tired I am.

And in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind. The room was indeed empty. Every night the waves came in and bore her off on their great tides of sound, floating her, wide-eyed, toward morning. There had been no night in the last two years that Mildred had not swum that sea, had not gladly gone down in it for the third time.

He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.

The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.

In their previous lives, poets were bats, and thinkers were owls.

On the nights I can’t sleep, like that one, like so many recently, I wish I could just turn my mind off like a lamp.