Franz Kafka Quotes

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

Also, I could finally sleep. And this was the real gift, because when you cannot sleep, you cannot get yourself out of the ditch--there's not a chance.

I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don’t want to die.

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)

That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia.

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 don't sleep as much as normal people do.

The gross demonstration of caffeine is that it prevents you from falling asleep. The slightly more nefarious aspect of caffeine is that maybe you can fall asleep, but we know that the depth of deep sleep you're getting if caffeine is still in your system is severely less.

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

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

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

Sleep comes more easily than it returns.

I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.

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.

My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.

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.

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

I'm a shockingly bad sleeper. In bed very late. Awake at the crack of dawn.

Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.

I'm a very good sleeper.

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.