Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

Sleep is still difficult I sleep for three or four hours a day. Usually sometime in the afternoon. I walk in the cold, keep myself numb. I cry less, and less." (James Frey, pg.88)

I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.

A lack of restful sleep disrupts the body's innate balance, weakens our immune system, and speeds up the aging process.

I don't sleep. I wait. I sleep in cars and on couches. I sleep when I can, but when I can't sleep, I just don't, so I figure there's a higher calling keeping me on point that night.

Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later.

The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir.

People who are contented and serene sleep well. They fall asleep easily, stay asleep, and wake refreshed. Conversely, people who are anxious, stressed, or depressed do not sleep well, and chronic insomnia is strongly associated with mood disorders. These are clear correlations, but what is cause and what is effect is not clear. Most experts agree that sleep and mood are closely related, that healthy sleep can enhance emotional well-being, while insufficient quantity or quality of sleep can adversely affect it.

I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.

Sleep is God. Go worship.

Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes.

Sleep is such a potent, liminal state, and I don't want to drag anything in there that doesn't need to be there.

I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.

I studied, I met with medical doctors, scientists, and I’m here to tell you that the way to a more productive, more inspired, more joyful life is: getting enough sleep.

She felt herself needing more and more sleep. When she awoke in the morning, she thought of when she might lie down again - and when she would sleep. She started going to the movies.

Oh, insomnia! Ah, well, I know a good cure for it... Get plenty of sleep.

Insomnia never comes to a man who has to get up exactly at six o'clock. Insomnia troubles only those who can sleep any time.

My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.

Sleep is underrated. Sleep!

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.

Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.

A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.

That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia.

Getting regular restful sleep is an essential key to staying healthy and vital, yet it is so often neglected or underemphasized.

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.

Sleep is the new sex.