Awake Quote by Blaise Pascal

One-half of life is admitted by us to be passed in sleep, in which, however, it may appear otherwise, we have no perception of…

— Blaise Pascal

The average human will spend one-third of their life asleep.

— I

“Sleep occupies a third of our life. It is the consolation to the woes of our days or the woe of their pleasures; but…

— Gerard de Nerval

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

— William James

Our lives are rounded with a sleep.

— John Muir

So the deeper stages of sleep are really those times of quiescence, you're really restoring your body and we have a few different stages…

— Shelby Harris

Nobody knows what either sleep or waking consciousness is, even though these two have long been seen as the two sides of being: part…

— Siri Hustvedt

We actually don't know the function of sleep all that well yet, but sleep is a time of quiescence in the brain.

— Shelby Harris

When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.

— P.D. Ouspensky

Night is the other half of life, and the better half.

— Anonymous

While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one

— Jorge Luis Borges

I have never felt any rest in sleep. For a few seconds I am numbed, then a new life begins, freed from the conditions…

— Gerard De Nerval