Marilyn Hacker Quotes

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

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

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

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

When you force sleep, it doesn't happen.

She'd slept terribly the night before. The room, the bed, were both comfortable enough, but she'd been plagued with strange dreams, the sort that lingered upon waking but slithered away from memory as she tried to grasp them. Only the tendrils of discomfort remained.

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.

It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.

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

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

After a sleepless night the body gets weaker, It becomes dear and not yours - and nobody's. Just like a seraph you smile to people And arrows moan in the slow arteries. After a sleepless night the arms get weaker And deeply equal to you are the friend and foe. Smells like Florence in the frost, and in each Sudden sound is the whole rainbow. Tenderly light the lips, and the shadow's golden Near the sunken eyes. Here the night has sparked This brilliant likeness - and from the dark night Only just one thing - the eyes - are growing dark.

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

Unfortunately, I suffer from insomnia, so my bedtime is as soon as I start to feel the least bit sleepy.

I'm like a three-and-a-half, four-hour-a-night sleeper. It's not enough to function.

Without question, I wake every night five times.

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

Some people might sleep eight hours and wake up exhausted because they're not getting good quality sleep.

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.

Sleep doesn't seem necessary. You wake up feeling great. But it's not all great feelings.

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

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