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

“In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.”
― Colette

“I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Icehenge

“Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.”
― Gregory Maguire, A Lion Among Men

“Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.”
― G.K. Chesterton