Awake Quotes · Page 17

I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion.

— John Lydon

If I'm awake at 2 A.M., I'm either suffering from anxiety or doing something I will regret tomorrow.

— Erin Foster

Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake.

— George Washington

You must be completely awake in the present to enjoy the tea.

— Nhat Hanh

“There is no work-life balance. We have one life. What's most important is that you be awake for it.”

— Janice Marturano

The easiest way to stay awake during an after-dinner speech is to deliver it.

— Herman Herst Jr

Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you.

— Tom Robbins

“Today is a gift. Today is all I have. I be fully awake in today.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage , he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.

— Helen Rowland

“Being awake is a blessing and a curse—seeing truths others can't see can be lonely, but the clarity it brings is invaluable.”

— Jen Alvares

Anyone can build a building that protects people from heat, sun and cold. What I am determined to do is to make…

— Philippe Starck

Every challenge takes you a little deeper and awakens you again and again. Without the challenges, you probably would go to back…

— Eckhart Tolle

A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense…

— Anonymous

Learn to turn to each person as the most sacred person on Earth, to each moment as the most sacred moment that…

— Reshad Feild

In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in…

— Nhat Hanh

There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world…

— Heraclitus

Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun,…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Sleep, my love," He whispered, smoothing her long hair, lifting the damp locks away from the back of her neck. "I'll be…

— Lisa Kleypas

“She let herself stray past the stage of sleep and even past the stage of remembering, and she wanders into the stage…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as…

— Henry David Thoreau

Yeah, I wish I could have stayed awake long enough to see your face when I changed over. (Wren) No, you don’t.…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I wake up with new dreams every day. So the more I can do to channel that into things that I love…

— Dolly Parton

What will you do today, knowing that you are one of the rarest forms of life to ever walk the Earth? How…

— Mark Nepo

I hold my breath, til it's more than I can take. And I close my eyes, and dream that I'm awake.

— Third Eye Blind

If those we love visit us when we dream, those who torment us almost always visit us when we're still awake.

— Alyson Richman

“Nothing like being in a dream, then waking up to a nightmare.”

— Anthony Liccione

I am kept awake by the list of possibilities for shooting more photos and deciding what I must prioritise next.

— Martin Parr

“No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The good thing about writing book is that you can dream while you are awake...

— Haruki Murakami

I can’t tell anymore when I’m asleep and when I’m awake, or which is worse.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Keep growing. Stay awake. Beware of gurus. Keep a low overhead.

— Joan Larkin

Meditation is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself awake.

— Thomas Merton

If you can't get to sleep at night, its because you're awake in someone elses dream.

— Anonymous

You are before being and not being, awake and dream take place in time. You have no time.

— Robert Adams

But I'm always dreaming, even when I'm awake; it is never finished." -the Lady Amalthea, from The Last Unicorn

— Peter S. Beagle

I'm alive, for you I'm awake. Because of you. I'm alive. Told you I'm awake. Swallowing you

— Godsmack

We learn more when we hate than when we love, because hate is eternally awake, but love is everlastingly asleep.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance.

— Carlos Castaneda