I awoke only to find that the rest of the world was still…

I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I woke up only to find the rest of the world asleep.

— Leonardo da Vinci

We are living on the brink of the apocalypse, but the world is asleep.

— Joel C. Rosenberg

One third of the people of the world are asleep at any given moment. The other two thirds are awake and probably stirring up…

— Dean Rusk

“The world is asleep, but you don't have to be.”

— Stewart Best

“While the whole world was asleep, the caterpillar was awake, working towards becoming a butterfly.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.

— Heraclitus

“WHILE THE WORLD'S ASLEEP, ANGELS REFUSE TO SLEEP!”

— Widad Akrawi

The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.

— Heraclitus

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of…

— Plutarch

“We are living on the brink of the apocalypse, but the world is asleep. JOEL ROSENBERG”

— Iain Rob Wright

“But there is something very strange and terrible in being awake when all the rest of the world is asleep. You are alone then…

— L.M. Montgomery

“I love my family, but sometimes, in the middle of the night when the rest of the world is asleep, there is a silence…

— Paul Teague

I'm a nocturnal creature, so my experiential canvas comes to life when the rest of the world is asleep.

— Quincy Brown

“​Now I'm awake to the world. I was asleep before. That's how we let it happen. When they slaughtered Congress, we didn't wake up.…

— Margaret Atwood