Guy de Maupassant Quotes

I'm so tired, but I can't sleep. Standing on the edge of something much too deep.

I need to sleep, but fear to dream.

Sleepless nights I'm not a big fan of to be honest.

Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.

I just can't sleep tonight knowing that things ain't right.

I closed my eyes and tried to sleep. But it was not until much later that I was able to get any real sleep. In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.

It was daunting at first. I did have insomnia for two weeks.

My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like measured thought.

The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.

I don't like to sleep. I'm missing something when I'm sleeping.

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

I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.

I'm sleeping like a baby, too. Every two hours, I wake up, screaming.

Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill.

Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.

The mark of fear is not easily removed.

I have major sleeping problems. I'd rather be up thinking about things than actually sleeping.

Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is.

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

I never liked sleeping; I always think I am missing something.

Fear has many faces.

I am always anxious to know what has happened while I've been asleep.

Panic is a horrible thing.

I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.

Who can wrestle against Sleep? - Yet is that giant very gentleness.