#insomnia

In living this way, we discover new opportunities for comfort and enjoyment. Where the younger person may have tossed and turned throughout a sleepless night, the older man or woman can possibly feel the pleasure that comes from lying on a good mattress, resting one's weary bones and overcharged intellect, whether or not one sleeps throughout the hours of darkness. ↗

— Irving Singer

#insomnia #nature #overcharged-intellect #spirit #nature

I think Vegas is the answer for pregnant people because of insomnia. It's open all the time and you go down and play your silly slots. ↗

— Selma Blair

#because #down #go #i #i think

Oh God, midnight’s not bad, you wake and go back to sleep, one or two’s not bad, you toss but sleep again. Five or six in the morning, there’s hope, for dawn’s just under the horizon. But three, now, Christ, three A.M.! Doctors say the body’s at low tide then. The soul is out. The blood moves slow. You’re the nearest to dead you’ll ever be save dying. Sleep is a patch of death, but three in the morn, full wide-eyed staring, is living death! You dream with your eyes open. God, if you had strength to rouse up, you’d slaughter your half-dreams with buckshot! But no, you lie pinned to a deep well-bottom that’s burned dry. The moon rolls by to look at you down there, with its idiot face. It’s a long way back to sunset, a far way on to dawn, so you summon all the fool things of your life, the stupid lovely things done with people known so very well who are now so very dead – And wasn’t it true, had he read somewhere, more people in hospitals die at 3 A.M. than at any other time... ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#night #sleeplessness #death

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#death #immortality #insomnia #death

It's a long walk back to Eden, sweetheart, so don't sweat the small stuff. ↗

— Stephen King

#eden #insomnia #stephen-king #death

I only sleep with people I love, which is why I have insomnia. ↗

— Emilie Autumn

#love

I fix the cramped, lined pages with my curious stare. How do you come to exist? ↗

— Kiera Woodhull

#imagination #insomnia #writer #writing #dreams

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

#sleep #brain

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking. ↗

— Clifton Fadiman

#any #gross #including #insomnia #itself

His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours. ↗

— Arthur Baer

#during #his #hours #insomnia #office