Juan Enriquez Quotes

Nothing keeps me awake at night. I keep other people awake at night.

He gets into the habit of thinking so passionately at night that he begins to be persecuted by insomnia.

I closed my eyes and tried to sleep. But it was not until much later that I was able to get any real sleep. In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.

You know what it’s like when you’re trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake?

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

O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?

Wonder implies the desire to learn.

Sometimes I don't sleep well.

I'm so tired, but I can't sleep. Standing on the edge of something much too deep.

Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.

I just can't sleep tonight knowing that things ain't right.

Who can wrestle against Sleep? - Yet is that giant very gentleness.

I can't sleep. There is a woman stuck between my eyelids. I would tell her to get out if I could. But there is a woman stuck in my throat

I've been waiting for sleep to offer up the day with both hands.

Sleep has no place it can call its own.

I don’t really know what “intellectual” means, but if it means you’ve got a desire to learn, you’ve got a desire to look for things that haven’t been presented to you, then, maybe. I think that “intellectual” is quite an exclusive word. I think it’s just for anyone that has a thirst or a hunger to improve themselves, or a yearning to escape from somewhere to get to a better place.

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

O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night.

My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like measured thought.

I don't like to sleep. I'm missing something when I'm sleeping.

Insomnia is only mind over mattress.

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

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.

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.