Sleep Deprived Quotes

“I'm feeling slightly deranged because I haven't slept for about a week, but it's a good sort of deranged, an ecstatic deranged, an invincible, infinite deranged”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“I started to exhibit Amnestic Disorder during working extreme night shifts at the world’s largest telescopes atop 13,800 feet very high altitude Mauna Kea in Hawaii. I was mal-acclimatized to the mountain, hypoxic, extremely sleep deprived, breathing medical oxygen, and in an unnaturally high radiation environment.”
― Steven Magee

“I refer to sleep as a reset. 6-8 hours is a hard reset. (Never happens for me)

Sometimes throughout the day, I need to do a soft reset multiple times. IE: naps

Plugging into your sleep setting, so that you can recharge is a must.

I’m trying.”
― Niedria Kenny

“What letters in the alphabet face the letters that follow it in a word vs its back against the letters that follow it. Like, “Because” The “B” faces the letters that follow it. But in the word, “dumb” the lowercase “d” has its back against the letters. #ThisIsWhatKeepMeUpAtNight”
― Niedria Kenny

“The Glass Battle
by Stewart Stafford

Windy night or thundery dawn,
My window rattled just the same,
Driven upright to latch it tight,
Taken piece in an insomniac's game.

The hasp teased itself loose once more,
The lattice banging until I woke in fright,
Fever dreams of battle drums raging,
Plagued me from sunrise to last light.

Ignorance, the unaccepted plea:
Invite the slanting drizzle inside,
I nailed it shut — a hammered respite,
Swathed in muffled silence, I glide.

© 2026 Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford