Lying Awake Quotes

#1. Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry ... I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you.

Charles M. Schulz

#2. What doesn't kill you leaves scars, ruins your lungs, dries out all your tears, leaves you lying awake at 4 in the morning
wishing you weren't alive.

Walt Whitman

#3. There was a certain bitter humor to lying awake wishing for something one cannot have, after lying awake not so long ago wishing for the opposite thing that one had just lost. Not a very useful sort of adaptability, this, she thought.

Robin McKinley

#4. And oh, when we still used to sleep together, lying awake at night and finding one's only consolation in imagining in detail how one would go downstairs and find a hatchet and smash one's partners head in and mash it into a bloody pudding on the pillow!

Iris Murdoch

#5. The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

Samuel Johnson

#6. It was so hot we spent our waking hours dozing and our sleeping hours lying awake, trying to sleep.

Geoff Dyer

#7. The loneliest thing in the world is lying awake beside someone asleep. ~ "The November Story

Rebecca Makkai

#8. Then came nights when, lying awake beside my final wife, I would spend too much time putting my finger on what was wrong. I was wearing the finger out.
What was wrong was very simple.
Sometimes her life and mine fell on the same day.

Gary Lutz

#9. Some designers retain a sense of humour about what they do, but others are deathly serious and have no life outside of it; they're lying awake night after night constructing dresses in their heads.

Helena Christensen

#10. When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in without impropriety.

W.S. Gilbert

#11. He continued to lie there, like someone lying awake at four o'clock in the morning, unable to put his mind to rest, but unable to find anything to do with it.

Douglas Adams

#12. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like a bird that has blundered down the flue and is caught indoors and flutters at the windowpanes. It is like standing a long time on a cold day, knocking at a shut door.

Wendell Berry

#13. I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.

L.M. Montgomery

#14. It is better to be tired from physical exertion than to be fatigued by the 'poisons' generated by nervousness while lying awake.

Joseph Pilates

#15. <> Why are you lying awake, thinking that you're a terrible person?
<> To keep my mind occupied when I can't sleep. Some people count sheep. I self-loathe.

Rainbow Rowell

#16. She would be trouble, this one; the fact that he was lying awake now was proof of that.

Kimberly Derting

#17. Lying awake beside you, these thoughts run through my head.

David Levithan

#18. When I wasn't lying awake thinking and planning and fighting over that furious pennant race, I was dreaming restless dreams about it.

Smoky Joe Wood

#19. I feel sorry for players who are always lying awake at night, brooding over their games.

Magnus Carlsen

#20. I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

Wendell Berry

#21. The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he loves.

Mignon McLaughlin

#22. All that I have said and done,
Now that I am old and ill,
Turns into a question till
I lie awake night after night
And never get the answers right.

William Butler Yeats

#23. Thank God for sleep! And when you cannot sleep, still thank Him that you live to lie awake.

William Arthur Dunkerley

#24. Share ownership of your ideas. The more people who lie awake in bed thinking about your idea, the better.

Scott Belsky

#25. And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales awake; For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take.

Callimachus

#26. In the few moments I lay awake after finally lying down, the thought came to me that the next time I closed my eyes could well be the last. And partly because of the drug hangover, mostly because of the past day's horrors, I found that I really didn't give a shit.

Joe Haldeman

#27. It's 3:17 AM. I'm back. I'm awake and writing again. I just had a dream that I was lying in my bed and Kara walked into my room. She was wearing a bikini. I'm never going to sleep ever again.

Charlie Wood

#28. Oh any sentimental person can cry at night, but when you begin to cry in the morning - to lie awake and cry in the morning - ...

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

#29. I'm all out o faith, this is how I feel. I'm cold and I am shamed lying naked on the floor. Illusions never change into something real. I'm wide awake and I can see the perfect sky is torn. You're a little late, I'm already torn.

Natalie Imbruglia

#30. And he's alone there, with the unconscious pilot lying a little way off for company, and some other guy he's never even seen, only spoken to over the radio.
He wants to sleep so badly - dying they call it - and he can't. Something's bothering him to keep him awake. ("Jane Brown's Body")

Cornell Woolrich

#31. Ain't nothin wrong, ain't nothing right and still I sit and lie awake all night.

Bradley Nowell

#32. Suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything ... To be alive is so incredible that all I can do is to lie still and merely breathe.

W.N.P. Barbellion

#33. I find I can get so much done between midnight and 4 a.m. Everything is quiet, no one is disturbing me, and if I go to bed then, I just lie awake thinking of ideas. They are very creative hours for me. One night a week I crash out, though.

Tom Ford

#34. I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.

Michael Dirda

#35. Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.

Bob Seger

#36. I go to bed is around 11, and I do that for every race. I get good sleep. I don't lie awake for any race. That's my routine.

Mario Andretti

#37. I distinctly remember being a fifth-grader and lying in bed at three a.m. thinking, I am the only kid awake in the world. The insomnia feeds the anxiety, the anxiety feeds the insomnia, and my night would become a human centipede of sleeplessness.

Mamrie Hart

#38. So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.

Muriel Spark

#39. Because, really, what was worse than lying wide-awake in the dark, watching your life drip away, one irreplaceable minute after another?

Tom Perrotta

#40. Let your love flow outward through the universe, To its height, its depth, its broad extent, A limitless love, without hatred or enmity. Then as you stand or walk, Sit or lie down, As long as you are awake, Strive for this with a one-pointed mind; Your life will bring heaven to earth.

Gautama Buddha

#41. I see you lying next to me, with words I thought i'd never speak, awake and unafraid, asleep or dead?

Gerard Way

#42. You can't think about what you're going to do. It just gets in the way. You have to be just available for life, otherwise you're not bringing anything to the party. So I don't lie awake thinking about what I'm going to do workwise. There's just too much going on.

Bill Murray