Dan Chaon Quotes

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.

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

For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the last thing I want to do.

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

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

Insomnia is only mind over mattress.

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

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.

Sleep is harder to reach and thinner, and sleeping is no longer the Drop into the black pit all oblivion until the alarm clock, no, sleep is thin and fitful and full of memories and reminders and the dark is never dark enough.

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

Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.

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

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

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

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

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

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

You know what it’s like when you’re trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake?

I’m not going to bed after all. Somebody around here hath murdered sleep. Good for him.

My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like measured thought.

O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?

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

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.