Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched.

I've been waiting for sleep to offer up the day with both hands.

Sleep deprivation made his life an imaginary thing, his days a ribbon floating aimlessly in water." - Whelk

I've never been able to sleep very much, even when I was a kid. I used to hate being forced to lay in bed in the darkness, and just shifting in bed and staring at the shadows.

Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.

All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper. No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of parting with consciousness is unspeakably repulsive to me.

I don't know if you've ever had insomnia, but it's a really terrible feeling when it's days and weeks on end. It was kind of awful.

Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.

I'm so tired, but I can't sleep. Standing on the edge of something much too deep.

I have trouble sleeping, at the end of the night. There's a lot of stimulus and my brain is processing a lot of different arcs and personalities. I'm always processing things, so I don't sleep.

Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it.

I was never going to get any sleep. I was going to have Alice in Wonderland conversation after Alice in Wonderland conversation until I died of exhaustion. Here, in the restful, idyllic Victorian era.

I ain't sleeping. I'm just taking a good look at the insides of my eyelids.

Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation.

Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... Without the satisfaction.

Insomnia is only mind over mattress.

He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.

... As to sleep, you know, I never sleep now. I might be a Watchman, except that I don't get any pay, and he's got nothing on his mind.

Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.

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

O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, 1710. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?

I just can't sleep tonight knowing that things ain't right.

Evelyn was an insomniac so when they say she died in her sleep, you have to question that.

Who can wrestle against Sleep? - Yet is that giant very gentleness.

I can't sleep. There is a woman stuck between my eyelids. I would tell her to get out if I could. But there is a woman stuck in my throat