The truth is I sleep too much now. I don’t have an insomnia problem, but I pity all of those that do. I do have nights where a great thought enters my head and I wrestle what to do with it and who to speak about it the next day, and then I fall to sleep and realize that all of my ideas at the time are worthless and useless and shouldn’t be spoken about or shouldn’t be spoken to, and then I am thankful that I have a place to sleep at all or a place not to sleep at all and then I lie there thanking God for the blessing of this mattress that I ordered off the Internet for a fair price from a startup mattress company and wonder if comfort is my God now instead and then usually when I start praying I fall asleep and this works usually. Now with no more delay, here the top insomnia quotes:

24 Amazing Insomnia Quotes To Read While You’re Still Awake At Night

1. The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more. – Wilson Mizner

2. “To live without self-respect is to lie awake some night, beyond the reach of warm milk, the Phenobarbital, and the sleeping hand on the coverlet, counting up the sins of commissions and omission, the trusts betrayed, the promises subtly broken, the gifts irrevocably wasted through sloth or cowardice, or carelessness. However long we postpone it, we eventually lie down alone in that notoriously uncomfortable bed, the one we make ourselves. Whether or not we sleep in it depends, of course, on whether or not we respect ourselves.” ― Joan Didion

3. The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep. ―W. C. Fields

4. The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.― Leonard Cohen

5. The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets. ―Poppy Z. Brite

6. “I’ve crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I’ve come to a place I never thought I’d have to come to. And I don’t know how I got here. It’s a strange place. It’s a place where a little harmless dreaming and then some sleepy, early-morning talk has led me into considerations of death and annihilation.” ― Raymond Carver, Where I’m Calling From: New and Selected Stories

7. It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams. ―Karen Russell

8. “Insomnia is a variant of Tourette’s–the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to settle, to join the collective nod. The insomniac brain is a sort of conspiracy theorist as well, believing too much in its own paranoiac importance–as though if it were to blink, then doze, the world might be overrun by some encroaching calamity, which its obsessive musings are somehow fending off.”
― Jonathan Lethem

9. “Insomnia: A contagious disease often transmitted from babies to parents.” ―Shannon Fife

10. I’m an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.” ― Pete Wentz, Gray

11. If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. –Dale Carnegie

12. “When the black thing was at its worst, when the illicit cocktails and the ten-mile runs stopped working, I would feel numb as if dead to the world. I moved unconsciously, with heavy limbs, like a zombie from a horror film. I felt a pain so fierce and persistent deep inside me, I was tempted to take the chopping knife in the kitchen and cut the black thing out I would lie on my bed staring at the ceiling thinking about that knife and using all my limited powers of self-control to stop myself from going downstairs to get it. ― Alice Jamieson

13. Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. ‘Stop thinking’, swig, ’empty your head’, swig, ‘now, seriously empty your head’. ― Gillian Flynn

14. Nothing clears insomnia like the realization that it’s time to get up. –  Author Unknown

15. Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking. – Clifton Fadiman

16. Loneliness, insomnia and change: the fear of these is even worse than reality. – Mignon McLaughlin

17. If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he’d make a fortune. – Griff Niblack

18. When you have insomnia, you’re never really asleep and you’re really awake. – Fight Club

19. The best cure for insomnia is a Monday morning. – Author Unknown

20. It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. – John Steinbeck, author

21. 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. – David Benioff

22. Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly – are done worst when we try hardest to do them. – C. S. Lewis

23. Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. – Friedrich Nietzsche

24. A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky – I’ve thought of all by turns, and still I lie Sleepless… – William Wordsworth

Conclusion

Are you still awake? Or did these insomnia quotes do their job? You should be asleep right now. You don’t need anymore insomnia quotes. I didn’t tell you this at the beginning, but this number of insomnia quotes was optimized for maximum sleepiness. I picked some great ones to pique your attention, but most of them were to help you fall asleep. Did it work? Well if not, maybe this paragraph will work. Maybe this is the one paragraph that will help you reach the promised land of nocturnal bliss. Say it with me, no more insomnia. No more sleeping problems. I am sleepy. Look at these cute puppies. I am sleepy. That is all.