Awakening Quote by Kate Jacobs

One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.

— Herman Melville

I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength,…

— Hermann Hesse

A man who gets the reputation of rising at dawn can sleep to noon.

— Winston Churchill

The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his…

— Idries Shah

Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.

— G. I. Gurdjieff

What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.

— Franz Grillparzer

Man is firmly convinced that he is awake; in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously…

— Anonymous

Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared…

— William James

The man who sees an opportunity and does nothing is asleep with his eyes open.

— Brian Herbert

There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their…

— Edmund Burke

Man is what his dreams are.

— Benjamin E. Mays

“Night Watch Awake for hours and staring at the ceiling Through the unsettled stillness of the night He grows possessed of the obsessive feeling…

— Vikram Seth