„I stared at myself in the mirror. Okay, just ugh. I had to get some sleep tonight – the bags under my eyes had bags.“

— P. C. Cast

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„Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free." I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain.“
— Octavia E. Butler
„I will do my best to dodge tonight's depressionHide in sleepDamage myself in dreamsWake up older, slightly more used.“
— Henry Rollins
„I closed my eyes and tried to sleep. But it was not until much later that I was able to get any real sleep. In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.“
— Haruki Murakami
„I had taken a partner once before—but, damnation, no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise you are a hermit in a cave, sleeping with one eye open.“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„I'd sleep and forget it; I had my own life, my own sad and ragged life forever.“
— Jack Kerouac