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Awake Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- To be awake is to be alive.
- Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as if the theorizer…
- Everything counts for gain when we are cosmically awake. Nothing counts, unless we are awake. No enjoyments last, no successes satisfy, no gains have meaning…
- Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.
- When we are in health, all sounds fife and drum for us; we hear the notes of music in the air, or catch its echoes…
- We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake.
- Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, - passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely…
- Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
- Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
- The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to…
- to one whose elastic and vigorous thoughts keep pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. It matters not the labors and attitudes…
- To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
- The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an…
- The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a…
More Awake Quotes
- It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true. — Roger Babson
- It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you. — Abu Bakr
- A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning. — Honore de Balzac
- I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and… — Emmanuelle Beart
- Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. — Josh Billings
- I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake. — Lewis Black
- There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. — Erma Bombeck
- Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop… — Dale Carnegie
- The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long… — Marc Chagall
- I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to… — Harlan Coben
- Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything… — Henri Frederic Amiel
- Appreciation of life itself, becoming suddenly aware of the miracle of being alive, on this planet, can turn what we call ordinary… — Dan Wakefield