Weave

Freighted with brokenness and surrender, sleep is not a tool of resistance deployed in a conflict; it is the birth pangs of conflict’s transformation. It is the shadow of catastrophe, its doppelganger, without which it cannot recede.

Haytham El Wardany

Objects are death, all object, whether tidy (everything in order) or untidy (no one will find me in the pile). Furniture immobilizes – nothing can happen. When we walk in the midst of plants and animals we are moving among living things, we are part of them. When we are packed in the midst of objects, our surroundings are dead and we are a part of them, nailed down by inertness between the planks of insomnia.

Marie Darrieussecq

Insomnia is existence as indeterminate endurance.

Alphonso Lingis

Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.

Fernando Pessoa

Suddenly, I remembered a story of Slava David’s about a certain New York girl who had hysterically chased him out after passionate lovemaking, because, you see, she couldn’t sleep with men, wasn’t used to it. Love is love, but sleep must be sterile, deep, calm.

Edvard Limonov