Unable To Sleep Quotes

• Don Quixote followed nature, and being satisfied with his first sleep, did not solicit more. As for Sancho, he never wanted a second, for the first lasted him from night to morning, indicating a sound body and a mind free from care; but his master, being unable to sleep himself awakened him, saying, "I am amazed, Sancho, at the torpor of thy soul; it seems as if thou wert made of marble or brass, insensible of emotion or sentiment!

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  Miguel de Cervantes

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1866). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.681

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• I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

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  Ernest Hemingway

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• Dreams should be forgotten when we wake. Or one day we will find ourselves unable to sleep.

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  Spider Robinson

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• I willingly trust myself to chance. I let my thoughts wander, I digress, not only sitting at my work, but all day long, all night even. It often happens that a sentence suddenly runs through my head before I go to bed, or when I am unable to sleep, and I get up again and write it down.

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  Simone de Beauvoir

  Simone de Beauvoir (1977). “Force of circumstance”

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• I'm just one gigantic ball of rancid fear and self-consciousness. I'm entirely fueled by fear, so the fact that I knew it could be a catastrophic disaster made me unable to sleep, and made me work quite hard.

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  Eddie Redmayne

  Interview with Jennifer Lawrence, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2015.

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• I see all this talent, all this...this energy and brightness and...potential. Yes. Potential. And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life. This life that will take place almost entirely within a five mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night.

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  Jojo Moyes

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• I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist.

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  Lynda Barry

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• We didn’t deny the obvious, but we didn’t entirely accept it either. I mean, we said hello to it each morning in the foyer. We patted its little head as it made a mess in the backyard, but we never nurtured it. Many nights the obvious showed up at our bedroom door, in its pajamas, unable to sleep, in need of a hug, and we just stared at it like an Armenian, or even worse— hid beneath the covers and pretended not to hear its tiny sobs.

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  Jeffrey McDaniel

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• There are very few self-made millionaires, if any, who have not taken risks which would make the rest of us unable to sleep at night, or keep our food down.

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  Dominic Lawson

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• I had a migraine for about seven or eight straight days, and I was unable to sleep most nights.

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  April Winchell

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• Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.

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  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.471, Library of America

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