Annie Dillard Quotes

I am awake a lot of nights.

Without question, I wake every night five times.

Something is wrong with me - no matter how late I go to sleep, I still wake up really early.

I almost never slept deeply anymore--as soon as she said my name, I always sat up immediately, no matter how tired I was.

O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night.

Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.

The thing that keeps me most awake is the desire and curiosity to learn more.

It's great, but there is one problem. She doesn't sleep. At night she seems to turn into a vampire. She wakes up every night five or 10 times, asking for things, singing, calling out.

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

Unfortunately, I've gotten so conditioned, it's hard to sleep past 4 a.m.

I don't need an alarm clock to wake up in the morning. Akshay snores so loudly that I'm usually awake the entire night!

I am not a great sleeper. I don't think I have ever slept 8 hours straight in the last 20 years.

Certain kinds of knowledge rob people of their sleep.

Well does he sleep who knows not that his sleep has been broken.

Benny was awake again. Happened every morning.

Kept falling in and out of it [sleep] like out of a boat or a tipping hammock.

Nothing keeps me awake at night. I keep other people awake at night.

Sleep comes more easily than it returns.

Do you ever rub your eyes and suddenly find you're awake and not asleep, as you'd grown to suspect you were?

"Everyone is asleep. They've all been asleep for years. You seemed... awake." Alex is whispering now. He closes his eyes, opens them again. "I'm tired of sleeping."

WAKING AT NIGHT The blue river is grey at morning and evening. There is twilight at dawn and dusk. I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me now is a beginning or an end.

Sleep is harder to reach and thinner, and sleeping is no longer the Drop into the black pit all oblivion until the alarm clock, no, sleep is thin and fitful and full of memories and reminders and the dark is never dark enough.

I think my eyes were knocked open and they don't close. I sometimes wish I could close them and look away.

I have never been awake before.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake.