„Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.“
— Jon Stewart American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian 1962
„Insomnia"
perhaps she's a daytime sleeper.“
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„Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.“
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Fonte: Fight Club
„Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.“
— Mignon McLaughlin American journalist 1913 - 1983
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
„With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep.“
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Variante: When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep, and you're never really awake.
Fonte: Fight Club
„Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.“
— Charles Simic American poet 1938
Fonte: Dime-Store Alchemy
„Under the midnight sun, despair acquires the intensity of sex, insomnia the vehemence of art.“
— James K. Morrow, livro Towing Jehovah
Fonte: Towing Jehovah (1994), Chapter 12, “Father” (p. 337)
„Call me a sinner,
Mock me maliciously:
I was your insomnia,
I was your grief.“
— Anna Akhmatova Russian modernist poet 1889 - 1966
„My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.“
— Louis-ferdinand Céline, livro Death on Credit
Fonte: Death on the Installment Plan
— Menotti Lerro Italian poet 1980
Dove sarà mai la luce promessa? C’è forse un paradiso tra le nuvole, riposo nel vento, ristoro nei fondali marini? Dove finisce il buio, l’insonnia, la pazzia, il pianto, la malattia, la morte? Dove si nasconde Dio?
FROM: Andrew Mangham, The Poetry of Menotti Lerro, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2011, pp. 71-72. ISBN 978-1443828444
