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“I find the nights long, for I sleep but little, and think much.”
― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

“Too much had happened that night, too much had happened before that night, and so too much climbed into bed with them, sat heavily upon them, and kept them up and thinking, even if they did not say the things they were thinking to each other.”
― Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines

“I lay awake for a long time. It was like sitting in a cinema after the lights go down, waiting for the previews to begin. But nothing was happening. I regretted the coffee.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“Poppy, a chronic insomniac in her first life, since found that sleep arrived easily, washing over her in a soporific tide that carried with it the flotsam of ambrosial dreams.”
― Kevin Ansbro, The Fish That Climbed a Tree

“A night full of nightmares is way better than a sleepless one.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Insomnia is different,' I said. It was hard to explain this to people. 'You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That's what it's like in my head. The light stays on.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

“When the sun goes down, the insomniac dreams of having a nightmare, just to get some sleep in this too loud world.”
― Vivian Pham, The Coconut Children

“When I don't sleep, it's not that I feel tired so much as assaulted. In the morning after a night of no sleep my eyes are sore and tender and can barely open. My joints ache. There's a taste in my mouth which isn't like any other taste, only a feeling, and that feeling is defeat. My skull aches evenly across its hemisphere. [...] I go to bed at night, I get beaten up, come downstairs in the morning. Then I go about the day as if things were normal and I hadn't been beaten up, and everyone else treats me as if I hadn't been beaten up, and that way I survive, but no more than that. If somebody willed your destruction they could do it this way, by taking away your sleep. Of course, it's tried and tested”
― Samantha Harvey, The Shapeless Unease

“I feel safe at dawn
The night is gone
I am tired of dancing with my pain
For a few hours I can pretend to feel sane”
― Lidia Longorio, Hey Humanity

“I will not sleep
If that's what it takes
To not wake up
As my mother”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Hold Me Under: Poems to Drown to

“The fitful sleeping makes the hours pass slowly; it seems to me the night has many nights in it―has years of nights!―through which, as if through drifts of smoke, I am compelled to stumble.”
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

“There is no faith and no hope
without sleep.”
― H.D.

“When your body begins to enter and remain in a state of relaxation and rest, it is no longer in a state where it consumes resources but in a state where it can regenerate itself, even without sleep”
― Delbert Curtis

“The goal is to return to yourself, to become free and full of energy for yourself and, in turn, for others.”
― Delbert Curtis

“You have the possibility, in this very moment, to change your relationship to the world by relaxing, enjoying being present, breathing, and living this small moment before sleep, not in stress but in the pleasure of being alive.”
― Delbert Curtis

“He makes me feel stupid and it’s hard to sleep knowing so little about everything”
― Paige Lewis, Space Struck

“Five a.m. and mooching round
Compartments in my brain
Every corner occupied
By garbage and disdain
Down all day - up all night
Beneath that energy draining light

The Paperboy's Wife”
― John Cooper Clarke, The Luckiest Guy Alive

“If you really want to mess someone up, you sleep deprive them.”
― Steven Magee

“Working hard to pay the bill,
I need a break and take a pill,
Need some sleep right away,
But insomnia gets in the way.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job

“I don’t sleep
I am friends with time who passes by in front of my open eyes
The clock can go for a long time, to my surprise
I am familiar with the dark yet light blue of the sky at dawn
I lay there in my bed, waiting, wishing, for the
sweet release but it doesn’t come
Everyone is asleep and I hear every breath and every snore
It can be a very interesting thing or such a bore
I don’t sleep”
― Lidia Longorio, Hey Humanity

“Not being able to sleep is a nightmare.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Sleep apnea is a plague in the western world.”
― Steven Magee

“When the brain has no thought to chew on, no memory to revisit, and no past or future situation to imagine, it then has only one desire: falling asleep”
― Delbert Curtis

“The child that slumbers within us has become a confirmed insomniac. What is the point of growing up?

Some like to let their slips and parapraxes show through, to revel in their strange behaviour: they are absolutely set on having an Unconscious.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004

“You don’t block the window anymore.
The breeze is cooler
without the thick sweat of your breath.
Air more fresh,
not stained by the dirty words delivered.
This space kisses me in ways you never could”
― Benny Woith, vast.

“Like travel, insomnia is an uprooting experience. You are torn out of sleep like a plant from its native soil, then shaken down so that any clinging vestige of slumber falls away, naked confusion exposed like nerve endings. Sleep, in its turn, is a matter of gravity. It pulls you down, beds you in the earth, burrows you in. In sleep you connect back to the bedrock that provides nourishment and restorative rest.”
― Marina Benjamin, Insomnia

“Sleep apnea in high altitude workers is a dirty secret of professional astronomy.”
― Steven Magee

“Though only you can make the road to change, you can be given precious indications about which road to follow”
― Delbert Curtis

“While you lay dreaming,
I hear you sleep,
and slowly start counting
little lost sheep.
But I'd rather you snore,
than be no more!”
― Adiela Akoo, Lost in a Quatrain

“Zamansız doÄŸmuÅŸ insanlar vardır; ülkesiz, sınıfsız ve geleneksiz doÄŸmuÅŸ insanlar vardır. YaÅŸamı tek başına sürdürmeyi seçenler deÄŸil tam olarak; sürgünler, gönüllü sürgünler. Bunlar her zaman da duygusal deÄŸildir: belirli bir ÅŸeye ait deÄŸillerdir yalnızca - yani hiçbir yere ait deÄŸildirler.”
― Henry Miller, Insomnia, or the Devil at Large