ON INSOMNIA:


The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.

~W.C. Fields





The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald





In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.

~Colette





How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.

~Dorothy Parker



Sleeping is no mean art:  for its sake one must stay awake all day.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche


Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast.
~William Shakespeare, Macbeth



O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, that thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down and steep my senses in forgetfulness?
~William Shakespeare, Macbeth


His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours.
~ Arthur Baer


The last refuge of the INSOMNIAc is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

~Leonard Cohen