You’re still awake at this hour? Maybe these insomnia quotes will help.
When was the last time you had a full night’s sleep without restlessly tossing and turning half the night away? If this sounds like you, know that you are not alone. According to a study done by the University of Pennsylvania, insomnia is a pretty common sleep disorder. The study concluded with an estimate that 25% of the adult population struggles with insomnia each year.
Many factors can keep you from sleeping properly. Factors like anxiety over a big event coming up, being overwhelmed with creative inspiration that comes during the night, or even loneliness can all keep you from getting a proper night’s rest.
Whatever it is that is keeping you up, take a look at these insomnia quotes to know that you are not alone.
Insomnia quotes for when you’re up all night
1. “My mind decides to run when normal people sleep.” — Unknown
2. “You are the biggest enemy of your own sleep.” — Pawan Mishra
3. “A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.” — Charlotte Bronte
4. “Staring at the blue sky causes insomnia to occur in the human.” — Steven Magee
5. “The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. “Your dreams may seem impossible to someone with insomnia.” —Junnita Jackson
7. “Life is something that happens when you can’t get to sleep.” — Fran Lebowitz
8. “It’s a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.” — Tracy Chevalier
9. “I’m an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.” — Pete Wentz
10. “Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.” — Jon Stewart
Insomnia quotes for the deep thinkers
11. “My eye lids are heavy, but my thoughts are heavier.” — Unknown
12. “Dear Mind, please stop thinking so much at night, I need sleep.” —Unknown
13. “Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.” — Jessalyn West
14. “I want to sleep but my brain won’t stop talking to itself.” — Unknown
15. “I prefer insomnia to anesthesia.” — Antonio Tabucchi
16. “Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.” — Clifton Fadiman
17. “Only the insomniac looks on with open eyes, like a cadaver who forgot to die.” — Gyula Krúdy
18. “Dear brain, please shut up.” — Unknown
Funny Insomnia quotes
19. “The best cure for insomnia is a Monday morning.” — Unknown
20. “Sleep is such a luxury, which I can’t afford.” — Robin Sikarwar
21. “The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.” — W. C. Fields
22. “Error 404 sleep not found.” — Unknown
23. “Nothing cures insomnia like the realization that it’s time to get up.” —Unknown
24. “His insomnia was so bad; he couldn’t sleep during office hours.” —Arthur Baer
25. “Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night… without the satisfaction.” — Lynn Johnston
26. “My day starts backwards … I wake up tired and go to bed wide awake.” — Unknown
27. “Insomnia: A contagious disease often transmitted from babies to parents.” —Shannon Fife
Insomnia quotes about loneliness and fear
28. “I think the most common cause of insomnia is simple; it’s loneliness.” — Heath Ledger
29. “Not being able to sleep because that certain someone is on your mind.” — Unknown
30. “I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.” — Unknown
31. “I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death.” — Unknown
32. “The scary thing about having insomnia is not the hours lost for sleeping but the re-run of thoughts you’ve been trying to forget.” — Unknown
33. “The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.” — Patrick DeWitt
34. “Sleeping is so hard when you can’t stop thinking about someone.” — Unknown
35. “I can’t go to sleep. You will always be on my mind, even if you are not with me.” — Unknown
Insomnia quotes for when you can’t sleep
36. “Sleep comes more easily than it returns.” — Victor Hugo
37. “When you have insomnia, you’re never really asleep, and you’re never really awake.” — Chuck Palahniuk
38. “The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.” — Poppy Z. Brite
39. “The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.” — Leonard Cohen
40. “Insomnia has this romantic way of making the moon feel like perfect company.” — Sabrina Benaim
41. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” — Dr. Seuss
42. “If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.” — Dale Carnegie
43. “Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.” —Emil Cioran
Other Insomnia quotes
44. “Insomnia is the violence of the night over a man.” —Victor Marie Hugo
45. “Insomnia is the act of pushing through sleep to achieve the art of insane creativity.” — Todd Stocker
46. “I’ve always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.” — David Benioff
47. “Don’t fight with the pillow but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.” — Edmund Vance Cooke
48. “It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.” —Baltasar Gracian
49. “It appears that every man’s insomnia is as different from his neighbors as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.” — F Scott Fitzgerald
50. “I wonder why I don’t go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.” — Sylvia Plath
Feeling sleepy yet?
It’s 2 a.m. in the morning and you need to get up at 6. If you fall asleep now you can get a solid four hours of sleep in. That’s more than last night, right?
Do thoughts like these plague you nightly? If so, don’t let your insomnia win by staying in bed and tossing around all night. Sometimes, one of the best things you can do when you can’t sleep is to get up. If you can’t sleep, get out of bed and pour yourself a glass of milk or Sleepy Time Tea.
Take a warm bubble bath and light a sweet-smelling candle to relax your senses. Or, read a book (bonus points if it’s boring – that will put you right to sleep). Whatever you do, don’t drink alcohol or stare at electronics as both are known sleep disruptors.
While the University of Pennsylvania’s study showed that 25% of adults experience insomnia, the study also found that 75% recover on their own without developing persistent poor sleep or chronic insomnia.
Did you enjoy these restless insomnia quotes? Which quote is your favorite? Let us know in the comment section below.
