Key Insights & Memorable Quotes
Below are the most popular and impactful highlights and quotes from Insomnia:
“It's a long way back to Eden, Sweetheart, so don't sweat the small stuff.”
“It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.”
“Sooner or later everything you thought you'd left behind comes around again. For good or ill, it comes around again.”
“It's a long walk back to Eden, sweetheart, so don't sweat the small stuff.”
“Each thing I do I rush through so I can do something else.’ ”
“Worlds which had trembled for a moment in their orbits now steadied, and in one of those worlds, in a desert that was the apotheosis of all deserts, a man named Roland turned over in his bedroll and slept easily once again beneath the alien constellations.”
“They lived in fearful perplexity and passed it off as imagination”
“I've become convinced that genius is a vastly overrated commodity. I think this country is full of geniuses, guys and gals so bright they make your average card carrying MENSA member look like Fucko the Clown. And I think that most of them are teachers, living and working in small town obscurity because that's the way they like it.”
“Him's name is Roland, Mama. I dream about him, sometimes. Him's a King, too.”
“How much courage does it take to fire up your tractor and plow under a crop you spent six or seven years growing?' he asked himself. 'How much courage to go on and do that after you’ve spent all that time finding out how to prepare the soil and when to plant and how much to water and when to reap? How much to just say, ‘I have to quit these peas, peas are no good for me, I better try corn or beans.’'‘A lot,’ he said, wiping at the corners of his eyes again. ‘A damn lot, that’s what I think.”
“perhaps real beauty was something unrecognized by the conscious self, a work that was always in progress, a thing of being rather than seeing.”
“Pack up all my care and woe, blackbird, bye-bye”
“Ralph reflected for a moment on the similarities between loneliness and insomnia — how they were both insidious, cumulative, and divisive, the friends of despair and the enemies of love.”
“Don't sweat the small stuff, it's a long walk back to EDEN. Carolyn Roberts”
“Hey hey Susan Day have you killed any kids today?”
“Because ka was like a fish, ka was like a sand dune, ka was like a wheel that didn’t want to stop but only to roll on and on, crushing whatever might happen to be in its path. A wheel of many spokes.”
“She felt a calmness in him now, a centered lack of fear, that touched her heart with love, and with some queer darkness, as well. He was so different, her son, so special . . . but the world did not love people like that. The world tried to root them out, like tares from a garden.”
“The hardest for man is lie to himself between 3:00 and 6:00 in the morning.”
“Of all the things which make up our Short-Time lives, sleep is surely the best.”
“It’s time to quit fucking around, don’t you know that? When you start to see colored footprints on the sidewalk, it’s time to quit fucking around and go to the doctor.”
“The ring rolled down the gutter and disappeared into a sewer grate, and there it remained for a long, long time. But not forever. In Derry, things that disappear into the sewer system have a way – an often unpleasant one – of turning up.”
“Life’s too short for this shit,’ he had announced to his empty apartment, and that had been the end of the great whiskey experiment.”
“What an amazing day this has been, he thought. What a perfectly amazing day . . . and it’s not even one in the afternoon yet.”
“There’s really no just about it, is there?”
“and now he knew what it was like to be on the inside, caught in a web woven from your sickest fears and most traumatic experiences. There was no way to retreat from it, and no way to cut through it,”
“Murder is blue,”
“Sleep is the overlooked hero and the poor man’s physician. Shakespeare”
“As pessoas estão constantemente a morrer por falta de sono — dizia Wyzer — apesar de o médico legista acabar por escrever 'suicídio', em vez de 'insónia', na linha correspondente à causa da morte.”
“(...) as afirmações dos cínicos parecem sempre mais plausíveis do que as dos optimistas incorrigíveis.”
“Envelhecer não é para fracos, pois não?”
