A disruption of the circadian cycle— the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday life— seems to be involved in many, if not most, cases of depression; this is why brutal insomnia so often occurs and is most likely why each day's pattern of distress exhibits fairly predictable alternating periods of intensity and relief.

Why can I never go back to bed? Who's is the voice ringing in my head? Where is the sense in these desperate dreams? Why should I wake when I'm half past dead?

I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.

He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the night when the insomniac longs for a third side after trying the two he has.

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?I give.You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.

If you can't sleep, rest.

Don't count sheep if you can't sleep. Talk to the shepherd.