Susan Orlean Quotes

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

The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I’m tired.

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

I get this thing every once in a while that I call 'ESS:' emergency sleep situation. I'll get like lead, really fatigued, and I can't move.

I don't get a lot of sleep.

I sleep when the sleep comes down on me.

I'm so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day most things I worry about will never happen anyway.

I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.

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.

Sleeping is not something I do a lot of.

I'm not one who can get by on six hours sleep night after night. You can see it on my face and hear it in my voice. When working 14-hour days, I have to go home, go to sleep, and wake up in time for crew call. I hate naps. They throw me off the rest of the day.

I've been tired since I was 15.

I tend to sleep a lot.

I just try to get as much sleep as I can when I'm not working.

Well, I've realized I can function with no sleep!

We're chronically sleep-deprived as a culture. We're constantly on.

I don't get much sleep, so I have really bad bags under my eyes.

I am tired of being tired and talking about how tired I am.

For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the last thing I want to do.

Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched.

The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.

The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.

I spend a lot of time obsessing about getting a dignified eight hours' sleep.

The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.