Quotes About Wide Awake

#1. Up ahead were two bleary-eyed truck stops-- nothing said exhaustion like the wide-awake lights of a truck stop. He chose the larger one.

Maggie Stiefvater

#2. The nearest thing we have to a defence against [the gods] (but there is no real defence) is to be very wide awake and sober and hard at work, to hear no music, never to look at earth or sky, and (above all) to love no one.

C.S. Lewis

#3. Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

Leo Tolstoy

#4. 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

#5. Be alive, be wide awake, be anything but boring.

Shey Stahl

#6. The committed student needs to be wide awake, to look and listen closely, to slow down, scrutinize and reflect. The language of poetry is so dense, so multivalent, that it demands a concentrated act of attention - and offers its greatest rewards only to those who reread.

Ezra Pound

#7. Dear young people, Christ asks you to be wide awake and alert, to see the things in life that really matter.

Pope Francis

#8. Even if I'd been wide awake, I knew Dimitri would've taken my suitcase anyway. That's how he was, a lost remnant of chivalry in the modern world, ever-ready to help others.

Richelle Mead

#9. Society is composed of slow Christians and wide-awake sinners.

Josh Billings

#10. Here was the world wide-awake and yet only for me, all the fresh pure air only for me, all the fragrance breathed only by me, not a living soul hearing the nightingale but me, the sun in a few moments coming up to warm only me.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#11. It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true.

Roger Babson

#12. Wide awake to the presence of God, I realized I had been so focused on asking why a good God allowed bad things to happen that I was missing out on the nearness of God all along. In becoming preoccupied with the why, I was missing the who.

Margaret Feinberg

#13. 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

#14. Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true.

Lorenz Hart

#15. I need quiet and solitude to work. Darkness is best. If I am wide awake, I can't write.

Jeff Lindsay

#16. You know what it's like when you're trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake?

Haruki Murakami

#17. I have these realistic dreams and snap wide awake in the middle of the night. And for a while I can't work out what's real and what isn't ... That kind of feeling. Do you have any idea what I'm saying?

Haruki Murakami

#18. Fog rolled in like a form of sorrow. To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory deprivation. A wide-awake coma ... The sea was a memory bank into which everything fell and was lost. I dove in but came out empty-handed.

Gretel Ehrlich

#19. She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.

Jeanette Winterson

#20. My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like measured thought.

Markus Zusak

#21. 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

#22. Better try to stay wide awake, or you might end up found dead by the lake.

Eminem

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. [NINA]
When I was a child I stayed wide awake
Climbed to the highest place
On every fire escape
Restless to climb

I got every scholarship
Saved every dollar
The first to go to college
How do I tell them why
I'm coming back home?

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#27. I live a super-healthy lifestyle not because it's sensible or that I'm contrite, but because I need to keep my focus on the music I'm making. To do that, I need to be wide awake.

Johnny Marr

#28. I was wide awake, and yet part of me was so glassed-off and numb I was practically in a coma.

Donna Tartt

#29. Better to get up late and be wide awake then, than to get up early and be asleep all day.

Matthew Henry

#30. We've become a nation of wolves, ruled by sheep.
Owned by swine, overfed, and put to sleep.
While the media elite declare what to think,
I'll be wide awake, on the edge, and on the brink.

Otep Shamaya

#31. Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

Carl Sagan

#32. But we are so blind to our own shortcomings, so wide awake to those of others. Everything that happens to us is always the other person's fault.

Jerome K. Jerome

#33. wide awake as your soul remains tired. sitting silently under the moon as your mind continues to scream. you're losing yourself, you're losing sleep but he's losing you. some time soon, the thought of him will no longer keep you up at night.

R H Sin

#34. A dream isn't worth the sleep, unless you are wide awake when dreaming it.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

#35. When you're wide awake say it for goodness sake, it's gonna be a great day.

Paul McCartney

#36. Gansey sat behind the wheel, wearing both his Aglionby uniform and an electric expression that startled Blue. It was wide-awake and glittering, a match struck just behind his eyes. She'd seen this vivid Gansey before, but usually only when they were alone.

Maggie Stiefvater

#37. Sometimes I have trouble sleeping. It's weird - I can feel exhausted but still, I just lie there wide awake, staring up into the dark with all sorts of ideas bombarding me like dead pelicans

Tim Tharp

#38. Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Josh Billings

#39. Travel never made a bore interesting; it only makes for a well-traveled bore, in the same way coffee makes for a wide-awake drunk. In fact, the more a bore travels, the worse he gets. The only advantage in it for his friends and family is that he isn't home as much.

Peg Bracken

#40. I would say practical progressive, which means that the Republican party or any political party has got to recognize the problems of a growing and complex industrial civilization. And I don't think the Republican party is really wide awake to that.

Alf Landon

#41. He was still wide awake when the morning came - the light changed imperceptibly underground, with the glowtrees flaring up brightly, and the shimmer of golden dust that remained suspended in the musty air, as if millions of butterflies had shed the scales of their wings in midair.

Ekaterina Sedia

#42. To a soul which is wide awake, the Judgment Day does not come after death.
For that soul every day is a Judgment Day.
The Judgment Day is every day, and one realizes this as one's sight becomes more keen. Every hour, every moment in life has its judgment.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#43. A sleepy smile pulled at my lips as I rolled onto my stomach, stretching my legs out and pointing my toes. The sheets slipped over my bare skin and ended up somewhere at the foot of my bed. There was either a perverted ghost in my bedroom or Cam was wide awake.

J. Lynn

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

Tom Perrotta

#45. It's impossible to be really sad when you're asleep. You can be happy and afraid and angry in your dreams, but you have to be wide awake to be sad, don't you think?

Gregory David Roberts

#46. Every mental process, or every mental action, that takes place in our wide-awake consciousness will, if it has depth of feeling or intensity, enter the unconscious field, and after it has developed itself according to the line of its original nature, will return to the conscious side of the mind.

Christian D. Larson

#47. I do not feel brave. I feel a hundred years old and very, very tired - yet wide awake with worry.

Carrie Anne Noble

#48. My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence.

Antonio Machado

#49. There's always been some concern that adult subject matter should be quarantined from a page that attracts children. Unlike late at night, when 'South Park' and 'Colbert' are on, impressionable minds are wide awake when the newspaper arrives.

Garry Trudeau

#50. One wide-awake persistent enemy may be worth twenty friends. Friends point out all the good things you do. You know all about that. Your enemies point out your mistakes. Get yourself a first-class enemy, cultivate him, and when you achieve success thank him.

Harold Hobbs

#51. My wildest dreams are when I'm wide awake

Kevin Durant

#52. I want her to look upon me, just for a moment. But she never does and I walk away. Sarai I feel like I should be like Cordelia, sitting next to me wide awake yet unaware of it herself.

J.A. Redmerski

#53. ...we'd be okay. Not perfect, not entirely healthy, not even rational where our love for one another was concerned. Just okay. Merely sufficient, at best. But there'd be only acceptance - never shame - in being two divine failures as we emerged from slumber, perfectly flawed, and wide awake.

AngstGoddess003

#54. Children are young, but they're not naive. And they're honest. They're not going to keep wide awake if the story is boring. When they get excited you can see it in their eyes.

Chinua Achebe

#55. The man who only loves beautiful things is dreaming, whereas the man who knows absolute beauty is wide awake.

Bertrand Russell

#56. Ah, pray no mistake, We are not shy; We're very wide awake The Moon and I.

W.S. Gilbert

#57. We've heard that you don't need a near-death experience to see Guardians. Just be more wide awake when you dream.

Stefanie Samek

#58. I am free. I am haunted. But if nothing else, I am wide awake.

Anna Sheehan

#59. The wide awake man seizes opportunities or makes them, and thus those who are widest awake usually come to the front.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#60. I can get a call at 2 A.M., and the person on the other end is like: 'Sorry, did I wake you?' and I'm like: 'No, I'm wide awake.'

Estelle

#61. Sometimes she felt she had fallen asleep inside herself while she was wide awake working.

Cara Hoffman

#62. A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it

Carlos Castaneda

#63. Why are you only coming home just after three? Do you want a drink? I'm wide awake now.'
He could be so like a small child, she thought. Out of nowhere, all eagerness and curiosity.

Val McDermid

#64. That a man can change himself ... and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought.(Christian D. Larson)

Rhonda Byrne

#65. far too many people die with a heart thats gone flat with indiferance, and it surely must be a terrible way to go. Life will offer amazing oppurtunities, but we've got to be wide-awake to recognize them.

Beth Hoffman

#66. I climbed into bed, wide awake and full of dreams.

Rebecca Timberlake

#67. Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#68. She felt empty yet full, spent yet bursting with energy, drowsy yet wide awake. She felt love.

Andrea Lochen

#69. Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack.

Gautama Buddha

#70. Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?

Virginia Woolf

#71. I'm not an insomniac. It's just that my mind is in the best position to catch the weight of all hovering possibilities the moment I lie down.

Joyce Rachelle

#72. I turned my face to let his nose rub my cheek. "Mason, let's just stay here," I told him breathlessly.
He chuckled, huskily and dangerously. "Oh, no, absolutely not. I'm not to be trusted with you alone right now.

Shelly Crane

#73. Birds-eye view
Awake the stars 'cause they're all around you
Wide eyes will always brighten the blue
Chase your dreams
And remember me, sweet bravery
'Cause after all those wings will take you up so high
So bid the forest floor goodbye as you race the wind
And take to the sky

Owl City

#74. Now it's clear to me/ that everything you see/ ain't always what it seems,

Katy Perry

#75. I kissed someone tonight."
"Good for you. Now go back to sleep."
"It was Wesley...Wesley Rush."
Casey shot straight up in bed. "Whoa!" She shook her head and rubbed the sleep from her wide hazel eyes. "Okay, now I'm awake.

Kody Keplinger

#76. What do you want to trust me with tonight?"
A sigh escaped forcefully, waving the white flag that I was a melted, scorched woman at those words.
"Anything," I whispered back.

Shelly Crane

#77. It takes me five rounds to hit the middle of the target, and when I do, a rush of energy goes through me. I am awake, my eyes wide open, my hands warm.

Veronica Roth

#78. I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character.

Tim Curry

#79. Love finds you in the strangest places, and hope clings to us in the nooks and crannies we never think to look.

Shelly Crane

#80. I don't snore."
He nodded with a wide grin. "It's a quiet peaceful kind of snoring. Like a small cuddly Tasmanian devil. Kind of cute when sleeping, all claws and teeth when awake."
"You snore worse. At least I don't turn into a lion in my sleep.

Ilona Andrews

#81. I want to give you back your first kiss, the one that jerk stole from
you. And I want it to be something that even a coma can't make you
forget.

Shelly Crane