“You know what it’s like when you’re trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake?”
Haruki Murakami book The Elephant Vanishes
Source: The Elephant Vanishes
“You know what it’s like when you’re trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake?”
Haruki Murakami book The Elephant Vanishes
Source: The Elephant Vanishes
“but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.”
David Sedaris book Me Talk Pretty One Day
Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day
Subcomandante Marcos (1957) Mexican activist
La libertad es como la mañana. Hay quienes esperan dormidos a que llegue, pero hay quienes desvelan y caminan la noche para alcanzarla. <br class="br">La revuelta de la memoria (1999), p. 165, Centro de Información y Análisis de Chiapas. https://books.google.com/books?id=dVgWAAAAYAAJ&q=La+libertad+es+como+la+mañana.+Hay+quienes+esperan+dormidos+a+que+llegue,+pero+hay+quienes+desvelan+y+caminan+la+noche+para+alcanzarla.
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Sei il mio pensiero che felicemente al mattino mi sveglia e che di notte dolcemente mi addormenta.
Source: prevale.net
“I hate it when my leg falls asleep. I know that means it's going to be up all night.”
Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author
Ben Aaronovitch book Rivers of London
Source: Rivers of London (2011; American edition title: Midnight Riot), Chapter 1, “Material Witness” (pp. 2-3)
“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
No source in Hemingway's works has been found. May have originated in a 2000 post to the Usenet group alt.support.depression. link https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/alt.support.depression/wYH4aCNHyp4/_d50yuXTeHsJ <br class="br">Disputed