A. J. Jacobs Quotes

When you force sleep, it doesn't happen.

I have no trouble sleeping.

I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don’t want to die.

I need to sleep, but fear to dream.

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

I spend a lot of time obsessing about getting a dignified eight hours' sleep.

Honestly, I've always had difficulty relaxing, unwinding and going to bed - that kind of stuff.

But even before I was in the military, I was extremely jumpy when asleep.

Sleepless nights I'm not a big fan of to be honest.

The insomnia just perpetuates. I have one bad night, then I get it in my head that I can't sleep. I've been trying these meditation tapes - there are a couple on Spotify - and they're meant to calm you. But they don't seem to work.

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.

Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later.

Some nights I sleep like a baby. Other nights it's, Oh God, I just came up with a bomb shot.

You lack the season of all natures, sleep.

I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.

Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as legislature.... So people who go to bed to sleep Must count French premiers or sheep, And people who ought to arise from bed Yawn and go back to sleep instead.

I'm an insomniac lately. It's one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship].

I go to bed, and I wait for sleep as a man might wait for the executioner. I wait for its coming with dread, and my heart beats and my legs tremble, while my whole body shivers beneath the warmth of the bedclothes, until the moment when I suddenly fall asleep, as a man throws himself into a pool of stagnant water in order to drown. I do not feel this perfidious sleep coming over me as I used to, but a sleep which is close to me and watching me, which is going to seize me by the head, to close my eyes and annihilate me.

It was daunting at first. I did have insomnia for two weeks.

The bore is good for promoting sleep; but though he causeth sleep in others, it is uncertain whether he ever sleeps himself; as few can keep awake in his company long enough to see. It is supposed that when he sleeps it is with his mouth open.

Oh, insomnia! Ah, well, I know a good cure for it... Get plenty of sleep.

Insomniacs know better than anyone how it would be to haunt a house.

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.

A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.