“You know what it’s like when you’re trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake?”
Source: The Elephant Vanishes
“Anyone or anything that forces me to fall asleep when I want to stay awake is considered toxic to my senses.”
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“but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.”
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.
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
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
Disputed
A Spy in the House of Love (1954)