{"quotes":[{"text":"If you cannot sleep, sing to your soul.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["sing","sleepless","wisdom-of-lailah-gifty-akita","wise-words"],"id":52592,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"For there is nothing quite so terror-inducing as the loss of sleep. It creates phantoms and doubts, causes one to questions one's own abilities and judgement, and, over time, dismantles, from within, the body.","author":"Charlie Huston","tags":["doubt","insomnia","sleep","sleepless","sleeplessness","terror"],"id":53289,"author_id":"Charlie+Huston"},{"text":"Poems can getsleepless tooand becomethe loneliest thingin the universe.","author":"Sanober Khan","tags":["alone","aloneness","emptiness","indian-","loneliness","lonely","poems","poetry","poetry","sleep","sleepless","solitude","understanding","universe","writers"],"id":112317,"author_id":"Sanober+Khan"},{"text":"If your passion does not keep you sleepless, you can't be a good beginner. When passion itches, a great hand scratches... Wake up, it's your time to rise above idleness!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["act","action","actions","arise","arise-and-shine","begin","begin-now","beginner","do-something","enthusiasm","food-for-thought","idleness","israelmore-ayivor","itches","passion","passionate","rise","scratch","sleep","sleepless","start-now","take-actions","time","wake-up"],"id":125454,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Those who wake at this hour feel a lonely separation from everyone but night birds and ghost crabs, never imagining the legion of kindred souls scattered in the darkness, who stare at ceilings and pace floors and look out windows and covet and worry and mourn.","author":"Kathy Hepinstall","tags":["insomnia","night","restless","sleepless"],"id":129505,"author_id":"Kathy+Hepinstall"},{"text":"A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell my brain? But in the morning my daughter asks me what a cloud is and I cannot say.","author":"Jenny Offill","tags":["brain","clouds","genius","knowledge","sleep","sleeping","sleepless","sleeplessness"],"id":188154,"author_id":"Jenny+Offill"},{"text":"If you promote peace and progress for others, I don’t think you will have sleepless nights.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["conflict","conflicts","good-night","peace","peaceful","progress","promote","sleepless","sleepless-night","war"],"id":214180,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Ironically, just when she needed to get as much sleep as possible to prepare her for the next few days, her excited anticipation kept her awake long into the night.","author":"Emily Arden","tags":["anticipation","excitement","love","romance","sleep","sleepless"],"id":223158,"author_id":"Emily+Arden"},{"text":"Hail O mighty, fathomless sleep, come on and hug me tight and sweet; when I whisper those deepest pains, onto your ears mute and keen, sing for me the sweetest song that would sound the profoundest of life! Leave me upon your rocking arms, watched by spirits of placid nights!Goodnight, world, sweet dreams folks, blessed are those who would sleep at peace!","author":"Preeth Nambiar","tags":["goodnight","goodnight","sleep","sleepless","sleepless-night","sleepless-nights","sleeplessness"],"id":239395,"author_id":"Preeth+Nambiar"},{"text":"If you cannot sleep, put the sacred energy to use. You can pray, read and write.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["motivational","sleepless","strength","wisdom-of-lailah-gifty-akita","wise-thoughts"],"id":252405,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}