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“Then Night came down like the feathery soot of a smoky lamp, and smutted[9] first the bedquilt, then the hearth-rug, then the window-seat, and then at last the great, stormy, faraway outside world....”
“Insomnia is the act of pushing through sleep to achieve the art of insane creativity.”
“I didn't sleep all night, thinking. I thought about you, about those puppy eyes you give me, when you fake your sadness to make me smile-- and that upper lip of yours that brings life to all of my ...”
“A man who, night after night, falls like a lump of lead upon his bed, and ceases to live until the moment when he wakes and rises, will such a man ever dream of making, I do not say great discoveri...”
“Women can go mad with insomnia.The sleep-deprived roam houses that have lost their familiarity. With tea mugs in hand, we wander rooms, looking on shelves for something we will recognize: a book ti...”
“No amount of sleep will ever satisfy the tiredness i always feel.”
“I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented.”
“But Mr. Hale resolved that he would not be disturbed by any such nonsensical idea; so he lay awake, determining not to think about it.”
“The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.”
“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.”
“I think insomnia is a sign that a person is interesting.”
“sleep is such a luxury, which i cant afford.”
“Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.”
“The rain is, in a sense, The sole sad friend of those who find themselvesThinking, wide awake, until the dawn,Who, in bed, alone, with fevered hands, Listen to it, soothed. They like the companyOf ...”
“Of all the things which make up our Short-Time lives, sleep is surely the best.”
“It is at night when sleep like the outgoing sea leaves you dry and cold and the morning light arrives like a small punishment.”
“His impatience for sleep often frightened that very sleep away.”
“Im awake and I cant sleep. The more Im awake, the more I see, and the harder to sleep.”
“That gap between half sleep and half awakening has always been occupied by nostalgia.”
“And if I do fall asleep, Marla has to keep track of Tyler. Where he goes. What he does. So maybe during the day, I can rush around and undo the damage.”
