Awake Quotes

1093 Awake quotes by 737 unique authors

The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and… — Oprah Winfrey
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
We'd just shared the last beer and slung the empty can out the window at a stop sign and were just waiting back to get… — Ken Kesey
I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't cost them anything.… — Stephen King
A daughter of a King of Ireland, heard A voice singing on a May Eve like this, And followed half awake and half asleep, Until… — William Butler Yeats
I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a… — George Orwell
You all say you need us. Well, maybe you do, but not to help, with the millions of bubbly new minds about to be unleashed,… — Scott Westerfeld
This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he longed for freedom.… — W. Somerset Maugham
What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return. — Cormac McCarthy
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n. — John Milton
How can I give you nothing? Do you seriously expect me to buy nothing, wrap up nothing, stick a gift tag on nothing, send a… — Hilary McKay
We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real. — Ruth Rendell
When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body and the illusion… — Flann O'Brien
We're a lukewarm people for all our feast days and hard work. Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake… — Jeanette Winterson
Now the ears of my ears are awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened. — E E Cummings
Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. And if I should die before I awake, I pray… — Tonya Hurley
Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish, misbegotten. Not all of us dream awake. But those of us who… — Patricia A. McKillip
The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos of… — Christopher Morley
Keep it kickwriting at all costs too, that is, write only what kicks you and keeps you overtime awake from sheer mad joy. — Jack Kerouac
Many nights he lay there dreaming awake of secret cafés in Mont Marte, where ivory women delved in romantic mysteries with diplomats and soldiers of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to… — Andrew Harvey
Chilled-looking people walking along the riverside, the snow beginning, faintly, to pile up on the roofs of cars, the bare trees shaking their heads left… — Banana Yoshimoto
They slept profoundly, desperately, greedily, as though for the last time, as though they had been condemned to stay awake forever and had to drink… — Hermann Hesse
I wake up thinking: What am I reading? What will I read next? I'm terrified that I'll run out, that I will read through all… — Annie Dillard

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