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title: "19 Half Awake Quotes by 16 authors"
description: "Browse 19 Half Awake quotes by 16 authors. Discover the best Half Awake sayings and thoughts."
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> [Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-james/compared-to-what-we-ought-to-be-we-are-half-awake/)

[William James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-james/)

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> [Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/any-half-awake-materialist-well-knows-that-which-you-hold-holds-you-2/)

[Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/)

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> [“We're half-awake in a fake empire.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaux-froley/we-re-half-awake-in-a-fake-empire/)

[Margaux Froley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaux-froley/)

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> [“Are you half awake, or half asleep?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sufjan-stevens/are-you-half-awake-or-half-asleep/)

[Sufjan Stevens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sufjan-stevens/)

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> [When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-d-ouspensky/when-one-realises-one-is-asleep-at-that-moment-one-is-already-half/)

[P.D. Ouspensky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-d-ouspensky/)

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> [You do not adequately protect yourself by being half awake when other are sleeping.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-buffett/you-do-not-adequately-protect-yourself-by-being-half-awake-when-other/)

[Warren Buffett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-buffett/)

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> [“Any half-awake materialist well knows – that which you hold holds you.” — Tom Robbins”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-becker/any-half-awake-materialist-well-knows-that-which-you-hold-holds-you/)

[Joshua Becker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-becker/)

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> [I don't see anyone for the first hour and a half that I'm awake. I don't like to talk, and I don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-wilson/i-don-t-see-anyone-for-the-first-hour-and-a-half-that-i-m-awake-i-don/)

[Robert Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-wilson/)

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> [And yet, and yet, in these our ghostly lives, Half night, half day, half sleeping, half awake, How if our waking life,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pedro-calder-n-de-la-barca/and-yet-and-yet-in-these-our-ghostly-lives-half-night-half-day-half/)

[Pedro Calderon de la Barca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pedro-calder-n-de-la-barca/)

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> [Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-james/compared-to-what-we-ought-to-be-we-are-only-half-awake-we-are-making/)

[William James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-james/)

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> [It seems to me that the students are now half-awake enough to try and wake up their brother workers. If you don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lennon/it-seems-to-me-that-the-students-are-now-half-awake-enough-to-try-and/)

[John Lennon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-lennon/)

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> [“The paradoxical situation with a vast number of people today is that they are half asleep when awake, and half awake when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-fromm/the-paradoxical-situation-with-a-vast-number-of-people-today-is-that/)

[Erich Fromm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erich-fromm/)

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> [“I should have gone through life half awake if you'd had the decency to leave me alone. Awake intellectually, yes, and emotionally…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-m-forster-2/i-should-have-gone-through-life-half-awake-if-you-d-had-the-decency/)

[E.M. Forster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-m-forster-2/)

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> [Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-james/everyone-knows-that-on-any-given-day-there-are-energies-slumbering-in/)

[William James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-james/)

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> [Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-james/compared-with-what-we-ought-to-be-we-are-only-half-awake-our-fires/)

[William James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-james/)

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> [“That night I slept badly, thrashing about in my bed, not quite asleep and not quite awake. At times I had the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-ligotti/that-night-i-slept-badly-thrashing-about-in-my-bed-not-quite-asleep/)

[Thomas Ligotti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-ligotti/)

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> [“Some mornings you wake up fully in your body, and you know this is all there is--the air, the shape your body…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-flynn/some-mornings-you-wake-up-fully-in-your-body-and-you-know-this-is-all/)

[Nick Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-flynn/)

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> [“Declan, get your ass out of bed!" A light flicked on and Declan stumbled into view through the open window. He looked…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jena-leigh/declan-get-your-ass-out-of-bed-a-light-flicked-on-and-declan-stumbled/)

[Jena Leigh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jena-leigh/)

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> [“It was like he was always half-awake where other people were concerned. And then we met you, and he woke up." —…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cassandra-clare/it-was-like-he-was-always-half-awake-where-other-people-were/)

[Cassandra Clare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cassandra-clare/)

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