Awake Quotes

1093 Awake quotes by 737 unique authors

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. — James Joyce
The rain set early in tonight, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its best to vex… — Robert Browning
A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to… — Carlos Castaneda
When the fiddle had stopped singing Laura called out softly, "What are days of auld lang syne, Pa?" "They are the days of a long… — Laura Ingalls Wilder
Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night? Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken, While… — William Shakespeare
As I drift back into sleep, I can't help thinking that it's a wonderful thing to be right about the world. To weigh the evidence,… — Richard Russo
One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Fire, fear, foes! Awake! — J.R.R. Tolkien
When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there. — Jodi Picoult
And yet, and yet, in these our ghostly lives, Half night, half day, half sleeping, half awake, How if our waking life, like that of… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
And we will be ready, at the end of every day will be ready, will not say no to anything, will try to stay awake… — Dave Eggers
Wait," I say. "I think you're mistaken. Saying there is no dream is the same as saying everything is a dream. Isn't it? Everyone's a… — Samantha Hunt
I offer Emily half of my hit of acid- Love Saves the Day. It's my second or third time tripping, Emily's first, and she's understandably… — Nick Flynn
To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. — Henry David Thoreau
Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness is a measure… — David Steindl-Rast
I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry. — Jodi Picoult
A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand… — C.S. Lewis
I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep… — Fran Lebowitz
A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. — Carlos Castaneda
Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1,… — William Shakespeare
A beautiful and binding morning The world outside begins to breathe See clouds arriving without warning I need you here to shelter me. If I… — Josh Groban
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. — Pema Chodron
I have gone around observing your activities from the outside. Because of this I have also been able to see things to which you have… — Jostein Gaarder
My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard… — Anna Sewell
…I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things had become shadowy… — William Faulkner

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