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50 Quotes For When You Are Depressed And Don't Want To Get Out Of Bed

We might not be able to stay in bed forever, but I’d settle for all day.
Holly Riordan
March 8, 2017
“I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That’s why I’m trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning.”
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Tagged: Tired, Sleep, Existence
“Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.”
— Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
Tagged: Tired, Forgetting, Sleep
“There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.”
— Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?(And Other Concerns)
Tagged: Tired, beauty, sunrise, Nature
“Sleep is God. Go worship.”
— Jim Butcher, Death Masks: Book Five of The Dresden Files
Tagged: Tired, Sleep, God, worship
“For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Tagged: Tired, Sleep, Falling Asleep
“Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.”
— Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
Tagged: Tired, Sleep, sins
“Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
Tagged: Tired, Worn Out, Sleep
“I'm so tired I never want to wake up again.”
— Maggie Stiefvater, Forever
Tagged: Tired, Sleep, Death
“I'm so tired. I don't know if I can ever outrun how I used to be.”
— Marie Lu, Champion
Tagged: Tired, Past, Running
“I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.”
— Theodore Roethke, Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse
Tagged: Tired, Sleep, Asleep
“I am tired of running of having to carry my life like it was a basket of eggs.”
— William Faulkner, Light in August
Tagged: Tired, Running, gentle
“I've been asleep and I don't know if it's the same day or week or year, but who the hell cares anyway?”
— Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice/Jay's Journal
Tagged: Tired, Asleep, Time
“I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep is the consummate protection against the unseemliness that is the invariable consequence of being awake. What you don't know won't hurt you. Sleep is death without the responsibility.”
— Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life
Tagged: Tired, Sleep, Death
“She used to say she could taste sleep and that it was as delicious as a BLT on fresh French bread.”
— Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: A Novel(The Ya-Ya Series)
Tagged: Tired, Sleep, Delicious
“I sleep and sleep and sleep, yet I still have an unquenchable thirst for it.”
— Maria Elena, Eternal Youth
Tagged: Tired, Sleep, Sleeping
“I don't feel like dealing because dealing requires too much energy, and energy is what I lack.”
— Daisy Whitney
“It wasn't merely fatigue. Although it continued to worry me how tired I was all the time. I had a strange sense of missing something, of being in the wrong place - no matter where I was.”
— Josh Lanyon, The Dark Tide
Tagged: Tired, Fatigue, Sleep
“The feel of her own pillow, and of her own blankets reassured her. Both were familiar. And being tired was familiar too, it was a solid bodily ache.”
— Daphne du Maurier, The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories
Tagged: Tired, Sleep, Reassuring
“She was always tired, these days. She put on one of those smiles that wasn’t really a smile at all, and they went on.”
— Jojo Moyes, One Plus One
Tagged: Tired, Smiles, Sleep
“I’m tired of pretending, tired of acting like everything’s okay, tired of not being with him…”
— Terra Elan McVoy, The Summer of Firsts and Lasts
Tagged: Tired, pretending, Heartbroken
“People who don't see you every day have a hard time understanding how on some days -- good days -- you can run three miles, but can barely walk across the parking lot on other days.”
— Jennifer Starzec, Determination(5k, Ballet) (Volume 2)
Tagged: Tired, Depression, Hard Times
“All I want is to sleep -- to dream. Life is better in dreams.”
— Christina Westover, Poisoning Sylvie
Tagged: Tired, Dreams, Sleep
“She once again thought about how badly she wanted to crawl back beneath the mound of already cooling blankets that covered her bed like an inviting nest.”
— Kimberly Derting, The Body Finder
Tagged: Tired, Sleep, Sleeping
“I used to sleep the sleep of someone who knew she was loved. Now, I didn't.”
— Kristen Ashley, For You
Tagged: Tired, Sleep, Love
“Time to start getting more sleep. This beautiful physique needs royal treatment.”
— Elizabeth Rudnick, Tweet Heart
Tagged: Tired, Sleep, Beauty Sleep
“Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day. If you do something foolish or painful today, you get irritated if somebody mentions it, today. If it happened yesterday, though, you can nod or chuckle, as the case may be. You've crossed through nothingness or dream to another island in Time.”
— Roger Zelazny, Isle of the Dead
Tagged: Tired, Sleep, Dreams
“Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep.”
— Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Tagged: Tired, Sleep, Sleeping
“For several days, I slept. Whether this was a necessary part of physical recovery, or a stubborn retreat from waking reality, I do not know, but I woke only reluctantly to take a little food, falling at once back into a stupor of oblivion, as though the small, warm weight of broth in my stomach were an anchor that pulled me after it, down through the murky fathoms of sleep.”
— Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber: A Novel(Outlander)
Tagged: Tired, Sleep, Recovery
“Sleep had ceased to be a mere physical necessity; it was something voluptuous, and debauch more than a relief.”
— George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London
Tagged: Tired, Sleep, Relief
“Like chocolate, she craved sleep and it made her life brighter.”
— Thomm Quackenbush, Flies To Wanton Boys: Book Four Of The Night's Dream Series(Volume 4)
Tagged: Tired, Sleep, chocolate