James Tate Quotes

Sleep deprivation over quite a short period of time can make you paranoid.

I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.

The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

I get maybe four hours of sleep a night. I'm a little bit crazy.

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

I've gone days without sleeping.

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.

I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.

I'm not very good at going to sleep, and that's probably my worst problem. I don't need much more than seven and a half hours, but I probably get six. I take all my problems to bed with me and fret. I can't switch off.

My attention span is all over the place, and I overthink things. I'm an insomniac.

When I was 15 or 16 - I slept really well then. Now I sleep on a bed of anxiety-tipped nails.

I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream.

Unfortunately these days, there is a hell of a lot that keeps me awake.

Sometimes I don't sleep well.

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

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.

I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.

When I don't get enough sleep, I am cranky, vulnerable to headaches, and my concentration is poor.

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

I don't sleep well. I'm a very nervous - by my nature - anxious, almost paranoid person and reporter.

My bed isn't made, I'm tired, I haven't slept well for two weeks. I haven't been laid in a month. I don't have a girlfriend. I have a warrant for my arrest.

When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project.

I was proud of working 18 hours a day and sleeping three hours a night. It's something now that has turned into a problem for me: not being able to sleep... having insomnia.

Honestly, I don't remember the last time I had a dream. I don't really sleep often enough to be able to have any dreams.

I couldn't sleep for nights on end, as my brain felt like there were thoughts colliding within it; I obsessed over small details, from saving pennies and polishing each one of them to washing my clothing over and over in the washing machine.