Awake Quotes

1093 Awake quotes by 737 unique authors

You have grudged the very fire in your house because the wood cost overmuch!" he cried. "You have grudged life. To live cost overmuch, and… — Jack London
In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality. — Nhat Hanh
You're awake," he said. "Phresine is not," pointed out the queen. "Oh?" "You gave her lethium." "She gave it to me first. — Megan Whalen Turner
With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep. — Chuck Palahniuk
To feel forever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live… — John Keats
Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision. — Jeanette Winterson
A mockingbird has moved into our neighborhood. It perches atop a telephone pole behind our backyard. Every morning it is the first thing I hear.… — Jerry Spinelli
Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream — William Shakespeare
All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
She says you're not awake until you're actually out of bed and standing up. — Richelle Mead
I am strongly of the opinion that, after the age of twenty-one, a man ought not to be out of bed and awake at four… — P.G. Wodehouse
Another real danger to young men is thoughtlessness and lack of consideration. Lack of thought is one simple reason why thousands of souls are cast… — J C Ryle
In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked her down at… — Toni Morrison
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into… — Rabindranath Tagore
Because, really, what was worse than lying wide-awake in the dark, watching your life drip away, one irreplaceable minute after another? — Tom Perrotta
Again, I lay awake, and I cried because of waste. — Steven Morrissey
Being afreaid proves you're alive and awake. — Tim Winton
Wherever I went I felt like the last person awake in a room full of sleepers — Tim Winton
Already the dream was coming apart, its bright silk strands unwinding into nebulous emotions, little coloured clouds of feeling being dispersed by the movement of… — Steven Hall
But that in any city, in any cluster of people, there a few people who are awake at this hour, who are both awake and… — Dave Eggers
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's… — John Keats
I've always known that the quality of love was the mind, even though the body sometimes refuses this knowledge. The body lives for itself. It… — Ray Bradbury
I'd thought once, actually, of taking your mind, if you asked. I'd thought I could help you fall asleep at night." He opened his mouth… — Kristin Cashore
He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake. — Colum McCann
Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but without this mind,… — Jack Kerouac

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