Henry Reed Quotes

Before the advent of artificial light, we had 13, 14 hours in bed every night... and so what we experience now is about a 40% contraction of how we used to sleep, and I for one am glad of that - I don't want to spend 13 hours in bed.

Sleep is my great indulgence, and I get eight hours every night. Being chronically overtired raises stress levels in a bad way and is responsible for a lot of depressive breaks.

Well, if I don't get at least 16 hours, I'm a basket case.

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.

Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous.

With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep.

you're an insomniac, you tell yourself: there are profound truths revealed only to the insomniac by night like those phosphorescent minerals veined and glimmering in the dark but coarse and ordinary otherwise; you have to examine such minerals in the absence of light to discover their beauty, you tell yourself.

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

I have no trouble with my sleep, but the amount I have varies from four to eight hours, depending on my schedule.

I'm a very good sleeper.

I've seen the same thing emerge in the research around the interaction of sleeping and moving and eating: if you get a good night's sleep, you are significantly more likely to make the right choices about what you eat the next morning, you're more likely to work out, you're more likely to get a better night's sleep the next night.

I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don't wake up before - the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.

The more sleep you get in before the clock turns midnight, the more rested you feel no matter what time your alarm goes off.

Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I'm concerned that this will affect the quality.

I am a terrible sleeper.

It's really fascinating stuff, the science of sleep. We don't think of it in terms of that, but it really is.

Where you're not allowed to be woken up by any outside sources, you wake up naturally.

I've lived with insomnia for many years, but I'm making it a priority to address my sleep problems.

I've never had trouble sleeping in my life.

A lot of people underestimate rest, especially sleeping and recovery time.

I like to be in bed at 11, and I like to get 11 hours of sleep.

I usually get up at 3 A.M. I don't require a lot of sleep, and if I get tired, I'll take a powernap during the day.

I get eight hours of sleep at least at night, which I think helps your skin tremendously.

I usually fall asleep between 11 P.M. - 1 A.M., and I wake up between 6:30 A.M. - 8:00 A.M.

I know the best way to recover and get the right amount of sleep.