Dorothy Parker Quotes

I have trouble falling asleep. I have trouble shutting my mind off.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm on tour it can be hard to sleep.

But even before I was in the military, I was extremely jumpy when asleep.

I used to not be able to sleep if it's not inside the car or the bed in my room.

The insomnia just perpetuates. I have one bad night, then I get it in my head that I can't sleep. I've been trying these meditation tapes - there are a couple on Spotify - and they're meant to calm you. But they don't seem to work.

Some nights I sleep like a baby. Other nights it's, Oh God, I just came up with a bomb shot.

I don't get insomnia, but I do get the odd night when I can't unwind.

Thinking of Germany in the night robs me of my sleep.

A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.

Naps are the key to relieving stress. When you are working on two hours of sleep, the fact that cheese comes on something when you ordered it with no cheese is enough to send you crying under the covers for an hour.

I have no trouble sleeping.

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

I'm not very good at going to sleep, and that's probably my worst problem. I don't need much more than seven and a half hours, but I probably get six. I take all my problems to bed with me and fret. I can't switch off.

I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.

It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.

When there is a psyche-disrupting event in your life, it can prevent you from getting the long blocks of sleep at night that are so important to healthy aging.

When I was 15 or 16 - I slept really well then. Now I sleep on a bed of anxiety-tipped nails.

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it's quite literally that.

When I am in a hotel, and I turn off the lights and the TV, I just freak out. I turn the TV back on and don't get any sleep.

It's tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I'm wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.

Honestly, I've always had difficulty relaxing, unwinding and going to bed - that kind of stuff.

I've had insomnia since I was a little kid and I never sleep well. Sometimes I sleep very badly and sometimes I sleep slightly badly. I get it especially when I'm on tour because you cross a lot of time zones, and I'm not very adaptable.

I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.

When I'm awake, I don't want to go to sleep. I don't want the hassle of turning the light off, putting my head down and then all the thoughts. I don't want al those thoughts... thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts and I'm: 'I don't want this'. I have to knock myself out to go to sleep.