Sleep Challenges Quotes

All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper. No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of parting with consciousness is unspeakably repulsive to me.

Some people, if they didn't make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep.

Maybe you don't need beauty sleep, but some of us aren't so lucky.

Sleep and I do not have a good relationship. We have never been good friends. I am constantly chasing sleep and then pushing it away. A good night's sleep is my white whale. Like Ahab, I am also a total drama queen about it. I love to talk about how little sleep I get. I brag about it, as if it is a true indication of how hard I work.

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

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

There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.

I used to hear about guys who played saying how difficult it is getting up in the morning, and now I'm experiencing it; those same effects.

I'm definitely sleep deprived - it is so hard to sleep on a tour bus! It moves around so much, and we have really weird time schedules.

Sleep is a prison for a boy who has friends to meet.