Sleep Deprivation Quotes

“Sleep deprivation is physically miserable and creatively cathartic, as internal landscapes rise up from their dormant ashes.”
― Jaeda DeWalt

“Sleep's what we need. It produces an emptiness in us into which sooner or later energies flow.”
― John Cage, M: Writings '67–'72

“I thought calming thoughts and visualized serene places. Eventually, i found myself drifting along the frenetic edges of my mind. The Sandman was nowhere to be found, as i slipped further away from sleep.”
― Jaeda DeWalt

“Stress and sleep deprivation had a funny way of liberating the mind from previously held truisms, replacing them with a more compliant desperation.”
― David Z. Hirsch, Didn't Get Frazzled: humorous medical fiction

“... sleep deprivation is an illegal torture method outlawed by the Geneva Convention and international courts, but most of us do it to ourselves.”
― Ryan Hurd, Dream Like a Boss: Sleep Better, Dream More, and Wake Up to What Matters Most

“Alarm clocks are the bane of humanity. Sleep inertia, the decline in motor dexterity, subjective feeling of grogginess, and impaired state of awareness and mental performance is normal after awakening from even a light sleep. Scientific studies reveal that abruptly awakening from a deep sleep amplifies the severity and duration of sleep inertia.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“I was so sleep deprived that I could barely see straight as we walked into the soundless dark. I tried to get the boy to speak to me but he just continued walking forward without muttering a word.”
― Trisha North, FLAME: Chronicles of a Teenage Caster

“According to a recent study of military personnel conducted through the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, introverts function better than extroverts when sleep deprived, which is a cortically de-arousing condition (because losing sleep makes us less alert, active, and energetic).”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Sleep deprivation, it seems, can giveth as much as it taketh away!”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“Those early weeks were a blur. Like most new parents, I slept no more than two or three hours at the longest. How tired was I? One morning I piled a load of laundry into the washing machine, scooped a plastic cup of laundry detergent from the box, and poured it into the receptacle in the washing machine. The detergent filled the receptacle and then spilled over the edges. This had never happened before. I had never scooped out more detergent than could fit into the receptacle. I thought hard. I stared at the detergent. I stared at the object in my hand. It was not the small detergent scoop, but a big plastic cup. Why would there be a big plastic cup in the detergent box? I read the side of the detergent box, then it became clear that this was not detergent but kitty litter. I had just loaded the washing machine full of kitty litter. I pondered what would happen if I started the washing machine with kitty litter inside -- the clumping kind! -- and then spent the next thirty minutes trying desperately to get every last bit of litter out of the machine. Then I went to get some sleep; I could do laundry later.”
― Mike Brown, How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming

“It is in your best interest to avoid sleep debt, otherwise be prepared to pay both the DEBT and the INTEREST!”
― Stan Jacobs, The Dusk And Dawn Master: A Practical Guide to Transforming Evening and Morning Habits, Achieving Better Sleep, and Mastering Your Life

“Oh, sleep deprivation! A gift and a curse indeed!”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“The day brings me worries; the night brings me peace. I wonder why, since I am always awake.”
― Niedria Dionne Kenny

“If you didn’t know, lack of sleep….. excuse me….. sleep deprived plus other stuff*** can manifest into a psychotic break.”
― Niedria Kenny