Flann O'Brien Quotes

Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture I find debasing... I simply cannot get used to the nightly betrayal of reason, humanity, genius.

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.

Sleep comes more easily than it returns.

Insomnia never comes to a man who has to get up exactly at six o'clock. Insomnia troubles only those who can sleep any time.

I've dreamed a lot, but i'm not a very good sleeper.

O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse.

Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.

You lack the season of all natures, sleep.

When you force sleep, it doesn't happen.

He may have gone to bed three hours ago, but he knows who he is playing. You can rest assured that he hasn't slept a wink.

Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.

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

A lack of restful sleep disrupts the body's innate balance, weakens our immune system, and speeds up the aging process.

The hard part for me is rest. I am a person who stays up late. If I go to bed early, I don't sleep, but I know I have to rest. That is always a struggle for me.

Sleeping is not something I do a lot of.

Without question, I wake every night five times.

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

I don't sleep. I wait. I sleep in cars and on couches. I sleep when I can, but when I can't sleep, I just don't, so I figure there's a higher calling keeping me on point that night.

I can go round the clock without sleep.

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

The poor sleep little.

Other people need a full night's sleep in order to function and be healthy and alert. But I'm different.

I never sleep for more than five hours, hardly ever.

Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes.

I'm post-menopausal. I have nothing but time. Post-menopausal do not sleep. You obviously don't know one. We get about three hours of sleep a night and the rest of the time we have to do something productive with our time.