Half Asleep Quotes

#1. Half Asleep in Frogg pajamas.

Tom Robbins

#2. There were those apres-sex moments when, in a half-asleep or forgetting that I was with a woman, I would reach out and touch her vagina- only to suddenly pull back my hand, as if surprised.

John Irving

#3. Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#4. We were the only three people awake in a world half asleep and the air felt heavy with maybe.

Cath Crowley

#5. It took a moment to right himself, and he pulled his shoulders back as he regained his equilibrium. He didn't want to be half asleep the first time he kissed Ellie. For that, he wanted to be wide awake.

Jennifer E. Smith

#6. No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Khalil Gibran

#7. Anybody who's in the dressing room after the show always says, "Oh, my God, I was kind of worried that the show was going to be sleepy because you were half asleep, yawning, and not really present."

Martina Sorbara

#8. I'm like a man who's been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up.

Daniel Keyes

#9. Or by death. She nodded. It was the strangest feeling. I was still half asleep, but

Diana Gabaldon

#10. Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep.

E.B. White

#11. Sing lustily and with a good courage. Beware of singing as if you were half dead, or half asleep; but lift up your voice with strength.

John Wesley

#12. I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study (the Bible) an hour. You know, I
was half out of my head-stoned almost.

Bobby Fischer

#13. We're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have
to do.

Mitch Albom

#14. My liveliness is based on an incredible fear of death. In order to keep death at bay, I do a lot of "Yah! Yah! Yah!" And death says, "All right. He's too noisy and busy. I'll wait for someone who's sitting quietly, half asleep."

Mel Brooks

#15. I was sprawled out in my usual position on the couch, half asleep but entirely drunk, torturing myself by tearing memories out of my mind at random like matches from a book, striking them one at a time and drowsily setting myself on fire.

Jonathan Tropper

#16. But I need to wake up somehow. Or maybe not. Maybe it's best to get through the day half-asleep. Maybe that's the only way to get through today.

Jay Asher

#17. What a name! Was it love or praise?
Speech half-asleep or song half-awake?
I must learn Spanish, one of these days,
Only for that slow sweet name's sake.

Robert Browning

#18. Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.

Jane Smiley

#19. A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.

C.S. Lewis

#20. I assume that, as usual, he is asking this question rhetorically, so I say nothing so he'll go on ranting, because as painful as it is for me to admit, there is something kind of wonderful about Tiny's ranting, particularly on a quiet street when I am still half asleep.

John Green

#21. But don't ever let yourself forget that the person you care about fills an emptiness no one else ever has and that while life with them can seriously suck at times, those
moments when it doesn't are worth all the aggravation of falling into the toilet and getting soaked when you're half asleep.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#22. At the time, infatuated with Nietzsche (and half asleep), Leonard didn't want to get into this argument, the truth of which wasn't that all religions were equally valid but that they were equally nonsensical.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#23. About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.

Virginia Woolf

#24. She tells her love while half asleep,
In the dark hours,
With half-words whispered low:
As Earth stirs in her winter sleep
And puts out grass and flowers
Despite the snow,
Despite the falling snow.

Robert Graves

#25. If your opponent is better armed and has longer reach, then surprise is your only ally. And then you'd better hope he's half asleep.

Sherwood Smith

#26. The paradoxical situation with a vast number of people today is that they are half asleep when awake, and half awake when asleep, or when they want to sleep.

Erich Fromm

#27. I was half asleep but I smiled. In spite of all his irritating qualities, I couldn't help liking a man who despised a fictional character with such passion.

David Benioff

#28. Some of my best work is done when I'm half asleep.

Henry Wessel Jr.

#29. Even now, it was hard for her to believe that he was truly gone. Some nights she would wake in darkness, half-asleep, and for an instant expect to find him there beside her.

George R R Martin

#30. Frankly, the trouble with winter is, it is all backbone. It is fleshless, insensate, with neither a breast to be leaned on nor a heart to love and ache and, if need be, break, nor any kindly hand to fondle and caress like a sea-wave on a sunny shore half asleep.

William Alfred Quayle

#31. My brother's always hungry late at night, if he comes home that is. He always eats cheesy chips while he's half asleep on the couch. I look around, but he's not here, and I don't find any crumbs tucked into the couch bedding. The usual stain from his boots is missing from the carpet, and I

Clarissa Wild

#32. And so back up the ravines to the comfortable places (the sane ones?) where we don't have to think too much. Where life is, after all, just 'getting by' and where we survive, half asleep.

Robyn Davidson

#33. Live life as it was meant to be lived. Half asleep, preferably.

[...]

She preferred [...] to go to sleep at once, sleep now being one of the very few aspects of existence for which she felt any degree of enthusiasm [...]

Jonathan Coe

#34. Freedom can be frightening," she whispered, half asleep. "You're only free to choose how you're going to not be free.

C.D. Reiss

#35. I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?

Jim Capaldi

#36. He had been slowing down, the way one, half asleep, continually rereads the same paragraph trying to find a connection between sentences.

Michael Ondaatje

#37. I like coffee so much that I have tea for breakfast. The first cup of the day in particular is so good that I'm afraid I won't be able to properly appreciate it when I am half-asleep.

Christoph Niemann

#38. Finally there was a thick, warm cloak with a red clasp shaped like a rose. Grimalkin must have had these made in the County and hidden them among her own possessions. I was still half asleep; the last thing I wanted

Joseph Delaney

#39. Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep.

Hilary Mantel

#40. You're both mother fuckers. She was half asleep. Her voice was matter-of-fact as if referring to actual incest.

William S. Burroughs

#41. The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psychosis in safety.

Ian McEwan

#42. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do."
And facing death changes that?
"Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials.

Mitch Albom

#43. Through this twilight universe Daisy began to move again with the season; suddenly she was again keeping half a dozen dates a day with half a dozen men, and drowsing asleep at dawn with the beads and chiffon of an evening dress tangled among dying orchids on the floor beside her bed.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#44. Falling asleep in your arms again reminded me that I was only half a person in your absence. You make me whole.

Sylvain Reynard

#45. Counting your blessings is a better cure for insomnia than counting sheep - you can fall asleep before you get through half of them.

Densey Clyne

#46. He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine.

Emily Bronte

#47. We are acquainted with a mere pellicle of the globe on which we live. Most have not delved six feet beneath the surface, nor leaped as many above it. We know not where we are. Beside, we are sound asleep nearly half our time.

Henry David Thoreau

#48. He'd slumped beside her. " You can't fear losing me half as much as I fear losing you." It had been a grudging admission; he'd thought her already asleep.

Stephanie Laurens

#49. He sure does fall asleep a lot. Must be the Paxil. he takes his pill and a half hour later it's like he's roofied himself.

Jay Clark

#50. Those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood do the rest for me as well, when I am wide awake and fondly suppose I do for myself.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#51. Things can be funny when people are uneasy. It softens them up and stops them falling asleep on the sofa. I like those moments where people half-smile and half-wince.

Mark Haddon

#52. Sometimes I half fall asleep when I am sitting alone and fancy things that have never happened.

Charlotte Bronte

#53. I feel like Sleeping Beauty, forever asleep, with the waking world continuing on without me fully aware. Only there is no prince to wake me from this slumber, this half-life.

Tiffany Clare

#54. When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.

P.D. Ouspensky

#55. Ah, how hard it was, even half-delirious or asleep, to conceive of something new!

Paul Park

#56. He [the King of Morocco] spends half his time asleep and the rest of it buried between the legs of the fairer sex.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#57. To believe in dreams is to spend half your life asleep.

Lisa See

#58. But the sower Loves to see a woman Fallen asleep in the daytime Over a half-knitted stocking.

Friedrich Holderlin

#59. The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

Aristotle.