Quotes About Wakefulness

H OW LONG can you sleepwalk through your life? A few weeks? A few years? Ten or twenty years, if you're not paying attention? I

The past is like the night: dark but sacred. It's the time when most of us sleep, so we think of the day as the time we really live, the only time that matters, because the stuff we do by day somehow makes us who we are. We feel the same way about the present. We say, let bygones be bygones... Water under the bridge. But there is no day without night, no wakefulness without sleep, no present without past. They are constantly somersaulting over each other.

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But it doesn't last forever. Wakefulness always comes to take me back.

You know what it's like when you're trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake?

The wakefulness was always there beside me. I could feel its chilling shadow. It was the shadow of myself. Weird, I would think as the drowsiness overtook me, I'm in my own shadow. I would walk and eat and talk to people inside my drowsiness.

I entered the water as naked as when my mother bore me. When I first touched the cold water I felt a shudder go through me, then the shudder was transformed into a sensation of wakefulness.

To be awake is to be alive.

Why is it that men give so poor an account of their day if they have not been slumbering?

The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.

Mystics from all traditions have the common aim of cultivating wakefulness, while the common aim of all mainstream religions is to offer consolation and psychological support. To use a medical analogy, while mystics try to heal themselves (that is, to transcend sleep), conventionally religious people simply try to manage the symptoms. Near-death

Nothing can replace sleep, but coffee can do it best. I love coffee.

I am too insecure to crash early. I feel life will pass me by while I'm sleeping.

Humans are dreaming all the time.

We sleepwalk through our lives, because how could we live if we were always this awake?

Already we mistrust wakefulness; if we are dreaming, then let us dream, until our dream convinces us.

Most people don't know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don't get too comfortable & fall asleep & miss your life.

No tenía sueño, ni ganas de tentarlo.

In the hovering between sleep and wakefulness, lucid but dreaming, Luce's mind got away from her, and all kinds of empty shit she had meant to put entirely behind her forever swam up and lived in her head again.

Sleeping is no mean art. For its sake one must stay awake all day.

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In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. What are these blinks of an eyelid, against which the only defence is an eternal and inhuman wakefulness? Might they not be the cracks and chinks through which another voice, other voices, speak in our lives? By what right do we close our ears to them?

I must not fall asleep in the middle of my life.