Walter Hagen Quotes

Without question, I wake every night five times.

I can go round the clock without sleep.

Sleep comes more easily than it returns.

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.

When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body and the illusion of existence. Why have men spent the centuries seeking to overcome the awakened body? Put it to sleep, that is a better way. Let it serve only to turn the sleeping soul over, to change the blood-stream and thus make possible a deeper and more refined sleep.

Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!

I'm like a three-and-a-half, four-hour-a-night sleeper. It's not enough to function.

Sleeping is not something I do a lot of.

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

Missing even one night of shuteye will impact your ability to concentrate the next day. And it only gets worse if you deprive yourself of sleep night after night.

Some people seem to survive on very little sleep but I am definitely not one of them.

I don't sleep much. I think it's hereditary. My mom doesn't sleep. My dad never slept. My naps are definitely when I get the most sleep. I'm a big napper - that's when I get most of my sleep.

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.

I have never been awake before.

Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture I find debasing... I simply cannot get used to the nightly betrayal of reason, humanity, genius.

Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as legislature.... So people who go to bed to sleep Must count French premiers or sheep, And people who ought to arise from bed Yawn and go back to sleep instead.

Other people need a full night's sleep in order to function and be healthy and alert. But I'm different.

When you force sleep, it doesn't happen.

Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.

With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep.

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.

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

I've dreamed a lot, but i'm not a very good sleeper.

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

The hard part for me is rest. I am a person who stays up late. If I go to bed early, I don't sleep, but I know I have to rest. That is always a struggle for me.