Top 34 Half Awake Quotes
#1. You do not adequately protect yourself by being half awake when other are sleeping.
Warren Buffett
#2. Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you.
Tom Robbins
#3. Is this Nero Wolfe's house?" The voice got me one-half awake. "Yes. Archie Goodwin." "This is Sarah Jaffee. I'm awfully sorry, Mr. Goodwin, did I wake you up?" "Not quite. Go ahead and finish it.
Rex Stout
#4. Do we ever have to abandon all hope? Is it not perhaps a good thing that by refusing to give in to the evidence, the dreams that lie half awake in us all may persist?
Theodore Monod
#6. I should have gone through life half awake if you'd had the decency to leave me alone. Awake intellectually, yes, and emotionally in a way; but here--" He pointed with his pipe stem to his heart; and both smiled. "Perhaps we woke up one another. I like to think that anyway.
E. M. Forster
#7. It seems to me that the students are now half-awake enough to try and wake up their brother workers. If you don't pass on your own awareness then it closes down again.
John Lennon
#8. 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
#9. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.
William James
#10. And yet, and yet, in these our ghostly lives,
Half night, half day, half sleeping, half awake,
How if our waking life, like that of sleep,
Be all a dream in that eternal life
To which we wake not till we sleep in death
Pedro Calderon De La Barca
#11. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.
William James
#12. 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
#14. Six crows sit in our greengage tree. Half awake, I hear them speak to me in Haisla.
Eden Robinson
#15. When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.
P.D. Ouspensky
#16. Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.
William James
#17. The voice on the telephone seemed to be sharp and peremptory, but I didn't hear too well what it said, partly because I was only half awake and partly because I was holding the receiver upside down
Raymond Chandler
#18. Declan, get your ass out of bed!
A light flicked on and Declan stumbled into view through the open window. He looked to be only half awake and was missing his shirt.
Alex, on the other hand, was not missing that shirt in the slightest.
Jena Leigh
#19. The first evening in an inn, though, I had remained awake for a good half-hour, fascinated by the remarkable variety of noises the male respiratory apparatus could produce. An entire dormitory full of student nurses couldn't come close.
Diana Gabaldon
#20. You still awake?' asked the anesthetist.
'Nope,' I replied.
Eoin Colfer
#21. The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.
Dean Rusk
#22. 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
#23. Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep.
E.B. White
#24. What time do we start?" I resisted the urge to grin. "Show up at the New Living Hope Revival Church at ten tomorrow morning." His eyes flew open. "Ten? That early?" "Half the world's awake by ten, and the other half is sleeping in China.
Denise Grover Swank
#25. Are you still awake?' he might ask in the intimate whisper of 3 a.m. lovers who half arise, warm and happy, to find they have been in someone's company during all those lost hours of sleep.
Arthur Phillips
#26. 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
#27. In the pale light of the half moon, she sees him
opening the door, moving toward her
as if awake. He sits at the edge of the bed, tenderly stroking
her hair, inhaling deeply the heavy scent of
wet violets, the evening breeze along her arms
Adele Ne Jame
#28. Stayed awake on purpose until half past eleven one evening in order to have a good look at the moon for once by myself.
Anne Frank
#29. We were the only three people awake in a world half asleep and the air felt heavy with maybe.
Cath Crowley
#30. I usually plan to read a book for a half-hour before bed, but then I end up staying awake until 3 A.M. to finish it. Fortunately, my dog doesn't mind when I keep the bedside lamp on.
Amanda Hocking
#31. I don't see anyone for the first hour and a half that I'm awake. I don't like to talk, and I don't like to hear any sounds. People know not to bother me! I use that time to read, and make lists and notes of things I have to do later in the day.
Robert Wilson
#32. I stay awake half the night, still afraid that the smallest twitch will wake me up and none of this will have happened.
Nyrae Dawn
#33. Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.
Blaise Pascal
#34. Think about a moment, a little centimeter of time you'd happily exist in forever, if time could be laid out along the spine of a ruler. Maybe it haunts you in that blue inch of half consciousness just before you're fully awake.
Kate Ellison
