James Patterson Quotes

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

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

I don't sleep much. I'm on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything.

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

My attention span is all over the place, and I overthink things. I'm an insomniac.

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

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

I go to bed, and I wait for sleep as a man might wait for the executioner. I wait for its coming with dread, and my heart beats and my legs tremble, while my whole body shivers beneath the warmth of the bedclothes, until the moment when I suddenly fall asleep, as a man throws himself into a pool of stagnant water in order to drown. I do not feel this perfidious sleep coming over me as I used to, but a sleep which is close to me and watching me, which is going to seize me by the head, to close my eyes and annihilate me.

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

I can't sleep with you tonight, baby, my head's all messed up, you've no idea. It's somewhere else and it's full of voices and songs and bad things.

I'm a terrible sleeper. I get obsessive, repetitive thoughts and it's horrible.

I can't shut my brain off. It's like a hamster wheel." ~ Justin

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

Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... Without the satisfaction.

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

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.

Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.

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

Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.

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

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

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'm not very good at going to sleep, and that's probably my worst problem. I don't need much more than seven and a half hours, but I probably get six. I take all my problems to bed with me and fret. I can't switch off.

I'm a baby. I sleep like a baby - I'm up every two hours. And I think a lot. I worry a lot. I have great nights of no sleep where ideas come.

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it's quite literally that.