Top 100 Quotes About Awake
#1. But I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.
David Sedaris
#2. Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself.
Albert Claude
#3. 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
#5. The best thing about being an author is the unspoken approval to dream while awake.
Alex G. Zarate
#6. I thought that might have been the worst thing about losing someone, that moment between asleep and awake, when you had to remember and accept the loss again, relive that moment when your life changed, and you lost something dear.
R.K. Lilley
#7. How lovely it is to dream while you are awake.
Andre Agassi
#8. I love doing a lot of things I'm told I can't do. I think that's what drives me and keeps me awake every day.
Patrick Soon-Shiong
#9. In the search for truth - that everything in nature seems to hide - man needs the assistance of all his faculties. All the senses should be awake.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#10. My flaws are what wake me up in the morning and what keep me awake every night.
Colleen Hoover
#11. Be awake to the details around you, but don't be self-conscious.
Natalie Goldberg
#12. Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.
Patti Smith
#13. Like a bird with broken wing
that has traveled through wind for years ...
I sleep and my heart stays awake ...
Giorgos Seferis
#14. One name always stands out when it comes to actors taking on the monsters of our nightmares - Robert Englund. In the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' series, Englund kept us awake as night with a striped shirt and his special glove.
Rob Manuel
#15. Anything that doesn't bore me I think is doable because it's keeping me awake.
Paul Schrader
#16. My headache was worse than ever. I groaned, raising my right hand to my temple, and the last of the comfortable darkness dissolved, leaving me inarguably awake. Damn. "Toby?
Seanan McGuire
#17. Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.
Gautama Buddha
#18. Content, it dreams awake, and spins the fabric of tales. There is really nothing to be done with such imagery except to use it: in writing, in art.
Patricia A. McKillip
#19. My rage was the only thing keeping me awake, I was feeding off it in that righteous way you can if you never mention out loud the wrong you are being done.
Zadie Smith
#20. Sang: Nathan, are you awake?
Nathan: Nope.
Sang: Sleep texting?
Nathan: Yes.
Sang: That's a talent.
C.L.Stone
#21. It seems insane to be expected to lie in a dark room alone and not feel completely crazy and bipolar and confused and more awake.
Jordan Castro
#22. When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep, and you're never really awake.
Chuck Palahniuk
#24. Again, I lay awake, and I cried because of waste.
Morrissey
#25. Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake.
Geneen Roth
#26. 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
#27. Now that I am awake I shall reveal my true form.. to the world!!" Hahahaha! Hey You Morons! I'm Just Kidding! -Yusuke YuYu Hakusho
Yoshihiro Togashi
#28. then suddenly one day he awake to find that time had gone; the house completed, the imortelle tree cut down, his mother dead.
Earl Lovelace
#29. Wherever I went I felt like the last person awake in a room full of sleepers
Tim Winton
#31. Every night before I get my one hour of sleep, I have the same thought: "Well, that's a wrap on another day of acting like I know what I'm doing." I wish I were exaggerating, but I'm not. Most of the time, I feel entirely unqualified to be a parent. I call these times being awake.
Jim Gaffigan
#33. Appreciation of life itself, becoming suddenly aware of the miracle of being alive, on this planet, can turn what we call ordinary life into a miracle. We come awake to such a realization when we recognize our connection to a spiritual dimension.
Dan Wakefield
#34. The liberating truth is not static; it is alive. It cannot be put into concepts and be understood by the mind. The truth lies beyond all forms of conceptual fundamentalism. What you are is the beyond - awake and present, here and now already.
Adyashanti
#35. Faith I have, in myself, in humanity, in the worthwhileness of the pursuits in entertainment for the masses. But wide awake, not blind faith, moves me. My operations are based on experience, thoughtful observation and warm fellowship with my neighbors at home and around the world.
Walt Disney
#36. Vain empty words / Of honour, glory and immortal fame, / Can these recall the spirit from its place, / Or re-inspire the breathless clay with life? / What tho' your fame with all its thousand trumpets, / Sound o'er the sepulchres, will that awake / The sleeping dead.
George Sewell
#37. Pause now to ask yourself the following question: 'Am I dreaming or awake, right now?' Be serious, really try to answer the question to the best of your ability and be ready to justify your answer.
Stephen LaBerge
#38. What is uneasy when you are awake in the daylight is terror in the dark honesty of your dreams.
Deb Caletti
#39. What makes you push the shutter has to do with seeking a kind of perfection, a harmony in the world. You are instinctively aware it's there, but you've got to be completely alert and quick and so deeply awake that it moves you.
Sylvia Plachy
#40. A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.
Michel De Montaigne
#41. I may be a sleeping politician. But one should know that a sleeping politician is always awake about national politics. I am not like politicians who sleep on national issues though they may be awake physically.
H. D. Deve Gowda
#42. Dreamers push boundaries, they invent and they keep awake at all times.
Euginia Herlihy
#43. If we Americans are split into two meaningful camps, it is not conservative versus liberal. The two camps are the politically awake and the hypnotized.
Doris "Granny D" Haddock
#44. The power is within you. It always has been. How far are you willing to expand the horizons of your thinking and stir that power awake?
Louise Hay
#45. Never thought reality could get better than one's dreams. Thanks to a women though, one would rather stay awake becaues one's dreams aint remotely close to being as good as his reality.
Morena Baloyi
#46. Wounds make you awake in the memories but tears makes tough and dry in real life.
Kishore Bansal
#47. I'm so sleepy."
"My beautiful girl, dawn nears. And all good vampires are to bed."
She eased up, arching a brow at him. "Then you'll stay awake.
Kresley Cole
#48. The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake. - Leonardo da Vinci
Raine Miller
#49. Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.
Stefan Zweig
#50. Every day I have to be awake to escape ... The whole world is sleepy. It is a real fight to be awake, to see everything new, for the first time in your life.
Karel Appel
#51. Morning, K," Levi said, looking wide-awake and cheerful.
Demons shouldn't be chipper. It should be a rule. Or maybe just my rule. Rule Number 1: Levi must never be perky in my presence. I needed to work on enforcing that.
Erin Lynn
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.
Jasper Johns
#55. One morning you will awake to find that you are the person you dreamed of doing what you wanted to do simply because you had the courage to believe in your potential and to hold on to your dream.
Donna Levin
#56. If you are deeply connected with yourself, with your energy, staying awake to yourself in the moment, other prisoners tend to leave you alone.
James Fox
#57. I want to be awake. I want to choose kindness, live & let live. I want joy, gratitude, and peace today.
Tracee Ellis Ross
#58. You're impossible to resist, but I wouldn't bet your heart on it. It's like I'm finally awake, and you're just a beautiful mistake.
One Direction
#59. It was exactly as he'd thought it would be, like the first time and the millionth time all at once, like being wide awake, like losing his balance. Only this time, it wasn't just him; this time, they were losing their balance together.
Jennifer E. Smith
#60. What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.
Caryl Churchill
#61. . . .Consciousness came and went.
Consciousness went and came like the errant winds of spring, and I, who so often have had difficulty in falling asleep among the besieging shades of memory, now fought to stay awake as a child struggles to lift a faltering kite by the string.
Gene Wolfe
#62. When you have kids, you can choose to make them like you, or become like them, and if you've got something that's going to change every six days or six minutes, you can decide to be as awake and alive and learning as they are.
Jez Butterworth
#63. Like the moon, I want to touch places
just by looking. To tell
new things at three in the morning, when we're
awake with rain or any sadness, or slendering through
reeds of sleep, surfacing to skin.
Anne Michaels
#64. He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.
Colum McCann
#65. And then I though about us ... these children who fell down life's cartoon holes ... dreamless children, alive but not living
we emerged on the other side of the cartoon holes fully awake and discovered we were whole.
Douglas Coupland
#67. Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish, misbegotten. Not all of us dream awake. But those of us who do have no choice.
Patricia A. McKillip
#68. Here is the place called Awake. On the other side of this line is the country of Asleep. And you see this shaded area in between? Don't linger there. It is No Man's Land.
Ann-Marie MacDonald
#69. I was wrenched awake at the tail-end of a stifled scream. I fought my way up from a deep dark dream. The scream had been mine.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#70. Oblivion is purgatorial and grey. He is passably conscious, not asleep but not quite awake either, as if disconnected from everything, unable to move or think or receive input, able to exist.
Patrick Ness
#71. The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
Samuel Johnson
#72. 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
#73. Everyone is asleep. They've all been asleep for years. You seemed ... awake.' Alex is whispering now. He closes his eyes, opens them again.'I'm tired of sleeping.
Lauren Oliver
#74. My heart beats so hard it hurts, and I can't scream and I can't breathe, but I also feel everything, every vein and every fiber, every bone and every nerve, all awake and buzzing in my body as if charged with electricity. I am pure adrenaline.
Veronica Roth
#75. We don't sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we'll be more awake in our lives.
Pema Chodron
#76. Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.
Ajahn Chah
#77. Give me a rose, that I may press its thorns, and prove myself awake by the sharp touch of pain!
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#78. I am awake but asleep, a ghost floating in a space that has no beginning or end, just an endless hall of grief.
Ronald L. Smith
#79. I love life enough to prefer to live it awake.
Andre Gide
#80. And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.
Heraclitus
#81. Which is the true nightmare, the horrific dream that you have in your sleep or the dissatisfied reality that awaits you when you awake?
Justin Alcala
#82. Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.
Voltaire
#83. Here ah am in the junky's limbo; too sick tae sleep, too tired tae stay awake. A twilight zone ay the senses where nothing's real except the crushing, omnipresent misery n pain in your mind n body.
Irvine Welsh
#84. It was an hour before dawn. When all the Whos down in Whoville were asnooze in their beds without care. Sorry, wrong book. If I get to stay awake until dawn, I get just a tad slaphappy.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#85. And I found that I can do it if I choose to - I can stay awake and let the sorrows of the world tear me apart and then allow the joys to put me back together different from before but whole once again.
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
#86. And, like most people, you're too scared, stubborn or stupid to give yourself what you need until you're shaken awake by something.
Menna Van Praag
#87. Honestly, I just want to keep people awake. Or at least give you one joke to go to bed with.
Jimmy Fallon
#88. I had a dream I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.
Stan Laurel
#89. set apart to be his tumbrils of the Revolution. But that Woodman and that Farmer, though they work unceasingly, work silently, and no one heard them as they went about with muffled tread: the rather, forasmuch as to entertain any suspicion that they were awake, was to be atheistical
Charles Dickens
#90. I was asleep for almost ten years. And then this big goober with all these fucking weird animals moved into my house, and I was suddenly awake.
Amy Lane
#91. Abiding in Jesus isn't fixing our attention on Christ, but it is being one with Him ... A man is abiding just as much when he is sleeping for Jesus, as when he is awake and working for Jesus. Oh, it is a very sweet thing to have one's mind just resting there.
Hudson Taylor
#92. There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.
Heraclitus
#93. Sleep is over rated, then again so is being awake.
Dov Davidoff
#94. 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
#95. I was dozing on the sand, drowsy from the heat of the fire, when Naji shook me awake hours later. I rolled over and looked at him. "You're alive," he said. "Course I'm alive," I snapped. "You're the one who keeps passing out.
Cassandra Rose Clarke
#96. In reality, the main thing that keeps me awake at night is probably the destruction of the planet that's what gets me pretty upset.
Rachel Weisz
#97. All I can do is read a book to stay awake, and it rips my life away, but it's a great escape.
Blind Melon
#98. What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?
Jonathan Safran Foer
#99. There's nothing I'd say that keeps me awake at night, but I think that - when you're working with a group of people that are so beyond talented - that, every day, you wake up going, 'All right, I gotta fight to stay at the same level as these people.' That's what makes it fun.
Brie Larson
#100. That's when the magic happens- when everyone else is asleep and you're awake thinking about the world as it is, and the world as it could be. Make the most of those moments.
Adam Braun
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