“I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That’s why I’m trying not to think. I just want it al…”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.comTagged: Tired, Sleep, Existence
“Depression is sleep. Too much, and way too little. You’re always tired—not from the lack of sleep—you’re a weird, unknown type of exhaustion that sneaks into your life and somehow, without you noticing, becomes part of who you are.”— Katie Mather, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Tired, Sleep, Depression
“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”— Ned Vizzini, amazon.comTagged: Tired, Sleep, Nightmare
“You get up and before your eyes even open, you just want to go back to sleep. You already know the type of day you’re going to have, based on that weight that feels heavy in your chest.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Tired, Sleep, Awake
“Sometimes I consider pretending morning never arrived. I can slip back to sleep and blame it on an eternal nighttime. If I shut the blinds, who could even tell the difference?”— Ari Eastman, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Tired, Sleep, Morning
“She was always tired, these days. She put on one of those smiles that wasn’t really a smile at all, and they went on.”— Jojo Moyes, amazon.comTagged: Tired, Smiles, Sleep
“There are just really days you don’t want to get up. You take your time staring at the walls of your room looking for an excuse to never rise and see what the world has to offer.”— Danielle Wassmer, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Tired, Sleep, excuses
“Remember that today you can’t get out of bed because the world doesn’t make sense to you anymore, but tomorrow it could all change, tomorrow you can find the light again, tomorrow someone might tell you they need you and tomorrow you might meet someone who can change your life forever.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Tired, Sleep, Bed
“Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.”— Audrey Niffenegger, amazon.comTagged: Tired, Forgetting, Sleep
“I don't feel like dealing because dealing requires too much energy, and energy is what I lack.”— Daisy Whitney, amazon.com
“Every time my head hit the pillow, I wondered why I had ever left my bed in the first place.”— Emily Adrian, amazon.comTagged: Tired, Sleep, Bed
“I sleep and sleep and sleep, yet I still have an unquenchable thirst for it.”— Maria Elena, amazon.comTagged: Tired, Sleep, Sleeping
“There are times when bed is the only place on earth where peace is to be had.”— Richard Llewellyn, amazon.comTagged: Tired, Bed, Peace
“People who don't see you every day have a hard time understanding how on some days -- good days -- you can run three miles, but can barely walk across the parking lot on other days.”— Jennifer Starzec, amazon.comTagged: Tired, Depression, Hard Times
“It wasn't merely fatigue. Although it continued to worry me how tired I was all the time. I had a strange sense of missing something, of being in the wrong place - no matter where I was.”— Josh Lanyon, amazon.comTagged: Tired, Fatigue, Sleep
“Laying in your bed is comfortable, safe, warm.”— Kim Quindlen, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Tired, Sleep, comfortable
“Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.comTagged: Tired, Sleep, Sleeping
“And tonight, like every night, they will cry to themselves in the dark while counting sheep, waiting for sleep – their short death at the end of every day.”— Nadé Marshall, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Tired, Sleep, Death
“You try and go back to sleep and wait for the morning. Wait for that alarm that tells you, ‘we have another day to fight’ but it’s a battle even on your worst days you won’t give up.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Tired, Sleep, Battle
“You know you’re getting older when staying in bed all day is suddenly a guilt-ridden experience.”— Dyana Goldman, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Tired, Sleep, Bed, Guilt
“I decided to stay in bed until noon. Maybe by then half the world would be dead and it would only be half as hard to take.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.comTagged: Tired, Bed, Sleep
“I had a massive bed at home, and I loved her dearly. She was my queen, and I was her loyal subject.”— Robyn Schneider, amazon.comTagged: Tired, Bed, Sleep
“We might not be able to stay in bed forever, but I’d settle for all day.”— Matt Abrams, amazon.comTagged: Tired, Bed, Sleep
“I just want to not be me. Whether it's sleeping or playing video games or riding my bike or studying. Giving my brain up. That's what's important.”— Ned Vizzini, amazon.comTagged: Tired, Sleep, Video Games, studying
“I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid of this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind.”— Laurie Halse Anderson, amazon.comTagged: Tired, Sleep, Coma
“Like chocolate, she craved sleep and it made her life brighter.”— Thomm Quackenbush, amazon.comTagged: Tired, Sleep, chocolate
“Sleep had ceased to be a mere physical necessity; it was something voluptuous, and debauch more than a relief.”— George Orwell, amazon.comTagged: Tired, Sleep, Relief
“For several days, I slept. Whether this was a necessary part of physical recovery, or a stubborn retreat from waking reality, I do not know, but I woke only reluctantly to take a little food, falling at once back into a stupor of oblivion, as though the small, warm weight of broth in my stomach were…”— Diana Gabaldon, amazon.comTagged: Tired, Sleep, Recovery
“Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day. If you do something foolish or painful today, you get irritated if somebody mentions it, today. If it happened yesterday, though, you can nod or chuckle, as the case may be. You've c…”— Roger Zelazny, amazon.comTagged: Tired, Sleep, Dreams