Clifton Fadiman Quotes

In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.

I am an insomniac.

I don't sleep much. It takes me a long time to fall asleep. I'm a bit of an insomniac but, when I fall asleep, I don't ever want to wake up.

I've had insomnia since I was five years old. I just don't require much sleep. I'm never tired.

His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours.

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

I am a terrible sleeper.

For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.

I hadn't slept in 20 years. I would sleep a couple hours a night, and I went from specialist to specialist and they could never find out why.

I have always had disrupted, broken sleep.

I've gone days without sleeping.

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

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 a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.

No matter how tired I am, I can only sleep for four hours at a time.

I sometimes suffer from insomnia. And when I can't fall asleep, I play what I call the alphabet game.

It is tempting to think of this form of insomnia, the inability to fall asleep, as a disease of agency and control: the inability to relinquish high self-reflexive consciousness for the vulnerable, ignorant regions of slumber in which we know not what we do.

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

I never get enough sleep, even when I travel. I wake up in the middle of the night, either with the help of my kids or because my mind is going. I wish I got eight hours a night, but it is more like an interrupted six or seven. The secret is to go to sleep well before midnight.

I am an insomniac. Most of my nights include a moment of wakening. Often I will make my way to the kitchen to make tea and read for awhile.

I'm an insomniac, so my perfect reader is probably another insomniac.

When I'm awake, I don't want to go to sleep. I don't want the hassle of turning the light off, putting my head down and then all the thoughts. I don't want al those thoughts... thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts and I'm: 'I don't want this'. I have to knock myself out to go to sleep.

I don't sleep. I have a notepad next to my bed.

I don't sleep.