Jon Hopkins Quotes

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

I couldn't sleep for nights on end, as my brain felt like there were thoughts colliding within it; I obsessed over small details, from saving pennies and polishing each one of them to washing my clothing over and over in the washing machine.

I kind of think too much, I try do too many things at once.

I think you can get so mentally beat by kind of working yourself up too much.

I think too much during my day-to-day life; I'm the guy who worries about everything.

I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn't want to go to work the next day exhausted.

My brain doesn't have enough time to play around like that. To get limber enough to have a nightmare.

I'm a terrible sleeper because I work all the time. I stay up late almost every night working, whether it's on a TV or live show. I come up with new ideas, do research, watch loads of TED talks, or find psychology articles.

I have a tough time turning my brain off, to be honest.

I'm quite well-rehearsed in having mental days; being awake at the crack of dawn and still having to be awake late at night.

I think too much.

The people who know me do not ask me about the next book or how it's going. They ask, 'Jason, are you sleeping?' because they know my brain will not shut down.

What’s burning?” “Your brain.

I feel sorry for players who are always lying awake at night, brooding over their games.

I wished there was some kind of switch on my brain. That I could turn it off in the same way that I could turn off the television. Just click it off and immediately empty my mind of all these images and worrying thoughts. And simply leave a blank screen. Or if I could just remove my head and put it on the bedside table and forget about it until morning. And then attach it again when I needed it.

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

I can't sleep. Too many thoughts running through my useless head.

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

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

Well, I did know - but I just wanted the day to pass and the next day to come and then I wanted that one to pass. It was a horrible cycle. I felt so close to having to pack the game in.

Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.

I was proud of working 18 hours a day and sleeping three hours a night. It's something now that has turned into a problem for me: not being able to sleep... having insomnia.

The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food.