Eliot Sumner Quotes

He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.

When you force sleep, it doesn't happen.

Know what the best thing about insomnia is? That I get to stay up all night figuring it out.

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'm an insomniac lately. It's one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship].

I have insomnia, and it's hard for me to sit still for a long time. My mind is always "tick, tick, tick."

This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can't touch anything and nothing can touch you.

Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.

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

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

I don't know if you've ever had insomnia, but it's a really terrible feeling when it's days and weeks on end. It was kind of awful.

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

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

Sometimes I don't sleep well.

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

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

Evelyn was an insomniac so when they say she died in her sleep, you have to question that.

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

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.

She felt herself needing more and more sleep. When she awoke in the morning, she thought of when she might lie down again - and when she would sleep. She started going to the movies.

Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation.

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

Sleep is still difficult I sleep for three or four hours a day. Usually sometime in the afternoon. I walk in the cold, keep myself numb. I cry less, and less." (James Frey, pg.88)

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.