Quotes tagged ‘Insomnia’

“Oberst Von Scherbach: I'm grateful for a little company. I suffer from insomnia. Lt. James Skylar Dunbar: Did you ever try 40 sleeping pills?”

— Billy Wilder, Edwin Blum, Oberst von Scherbach, Otto Preminger, imdb.com

“My brain is doing what my brain is supposed to do and looking for predators. It doesn’t want me to brush all these threats off, it wants me to survive and in what kind of quality is an afterthought.”

— Chrissy Stockton, thoughtcatalog.com

“What happens when you consistently spend your waking hours in darkness?”

— Adam Elder, melmagazine.com

“I lose sleep over climate change almost every single night. I can’t remember how long this has been happening, but it’s been quite a while, and it’s only getting worse. I confess: I need help.”

— Eric Holthaus, sierraclub.org

“You only get one shot at life. Why waste it on sleep?”

— Robert Wade, Neal Purvis, Gustav Graves, Toby Stephens, imdb.com

“James Bond: I see you don't chase dreams, you live them. Graves: One of the virtues of never sleeping, Mr. Bond. I have to live my dreams. Besides, plenty of time to sleep when you're dead.”

— Robert Wade, Neal Purvis, James Bond, Pierce Brosnan, imdb.com

“What's wrong with sleep for sleep's sake? Sleeping to forget that everything is bad and idiot regressive fascists are coming into power all across the world and the planet is going to explode in our lifetimes?”

— Niloufar Haidari, vice.com

“Alice Kramden: Trixie hasn't had any sleep in three nights. If she doesn't get some rest soon, she's just gonna waste away to nothing. Ralph Kramden: She didn't have any sleep in three nights? How about me? I haven't slept in three nights! She'll waste away? Don't you care if I waste away? Alice Kra…”

— A.J. Russell, Herbert Finn, Alice Kramden, Audrey Meadows, imdb.com

“I stay up at night as long as it takes me to fall asleep or pass out from the hooch or from whatever we have at the time.”

— Richard Speck, articles.chicagotribune.com

“I woke up one morning, [my girlfriend] asked me if I slept good. I said, ‘No, I made a few mistakes.’”

— Steven Wright, imdb.com

“And now he’s president and you still can’t sleep. And now you’d like to get under the bed. You’re right to be scared. You’ve gotta be scared. I don’t know why you wouldn’t be scared.”

— Walter Mondale, minnpost.com

“I’m not going to sleep. I’m not going to do anything else the rest of the weekend. I won’t go to bed until Monday afternoon. I’m going to ‘studio.’. It’s homework, an architect’s version of final exams. I’m designing a mixed-use hybrid—a 750,000-to-1,000,000-square-foot facility next to the John Han…”

— Matt Kleinmann, www2.ljworld.com

“I only sleep with people I love, which is why I have insomnia.”

— Emilie Autumn, amazon.com

“I don't know why I kill myself staying up all night. And then I eat and drink while I play poker, and I'm supposed to be on a diet. I can't stay on a diet for the life of me. The doctor gave me some of those diet pills—the safe ones, not the ones that kill you, I hope. The first time I took them, I…”

— George Peppard, rogerebert.com

“I’ve laid awake so long I’ve watched the moon move across the sky I’m so tired I thought Maybe I’m a poem”

— Ashley Nicole Black, twitter.com

“What do you get when you cross a dyslexic, an insomniac, and an agnostic? Someone who lies awake at night wondering if there is a dog.”

— Unknown, thoughtcatalog.com

“Sometimes I have trouble falling asleep but it's not so bad I don't worry and I don't weep. In fact I'm glad. Because I get up off my pillow and I flip on the light. I get down and get hip in the still of the night I stretch and I yawn and then I breathe real deep And dance myself to sleep. I hoof a…”

— Jim Henson, amazon.com

“You were completely right. I sleep so much better when I'm alone. And you scream in your sleep.”

— Peter Mehlman, Emily, Sarah Silverman, imdb.com

“I can't eat, I can't sleep, all I can see is that giant red sun in the shape of a chicken.”

— Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer, Cosmo Kramer, Michael Richards, imdb.com

“You just bought yourself a lifetime supply of insomnia. Now you get your fat carcass out of here before I book you for violating the ecology.”

— Telly Savalas, imdb.com