Heather Cox Richardson Quotes

This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can't touch anything and nothing can touch you.

I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.

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.

I never manage to get to bed early on Sunday night but this doesn't matter, as I don't know one level of exhaustion from another.

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

People always say, 'Is it tough getting up at four in the morning?' I'm not terrible with that, but the weird thing for me is that I start to feel like a 3-year-old in need of a nap at about 7:30 at night; and, at 9:30, my head is teetering like that.

I go to bed at midnight and get up at 9. I never take a nap. I don't get tired.

I haven't been to bed since 1972.

If it's the morning, and I had a late night, the worst thing in the world is a bright light.

I go to bed very late. I usually stay up till 2:30 A.M. but am up by seven in the morning.

I'm not one of these guys that can stay up until 3 in the morning and get up at 5.

I can't sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.

anyone who gets up early by inclination or has been forced to rise early out of necessity finds it intolerable that others should go on sleeping soundly

Most of my friends seem to be either dead, extremely deaf or living on the wrong side of Kent.

You get all these friends just when you don’t need friends anymore.

Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.

I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.

When I think about popular culture, I can't help but think that we're living in the age of loneliness. There's this illusion that we all have instant access to each other, but we actually have no real connection.

Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world.

I know nothing. I know no one. I’m lonely. Every time I see you, you’ve put up some new wall, and you never let me in.

The great irony to Dirk [Gently] is that he sees connections in everything, but the one thing he fails and struggles with most is connecting with other people.

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.

All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.

George's voice became deeper. He repeated his words rhythmically as though he had said them many times before. 'Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place. They come to a ranch an' work up a stake, and the first thing you know they're poundin' their tail on some other ranch. They ain't got nothing to look ahead to.