Quotes About Awake

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

'Sleepless' was the first thing that came out and really gained a lot of traction online.

I don't see the point in caffeine without coffee. Or coffee without caffeine, for that matter," I informed him.

I don't see the point in caffeine without coffee. Or coffee without caffeine, for that matter.

The 'Muse' is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first awake.

I am awake but asleep, a ghost floating in a space that has no beginning or end, just an endless hall of grief.

inevitably someone will ask me about the word mindfulness with a tone of caution, suggesting that this is a Buddhist concept. It is true that Buddhists have long been faithful to the practice of mindfulness, but striving to live mindfully is a universal quest and belongs to us all. Living mindfully is the art of living awake and ready to embrace the gift of the present moment.

When reality is better than your dreams, stay awake.

a nutshell, the choice is between going through this life awake or in a kind of stupor.

Blessed are the dreamers, and cursed be the man who opens their eyes. True, the dreamers cannot save us, neither they nor their disciples, but without dreams and without dreamers the curse that lies upon us would be seven times heavier. Thanks to the dreamers, maybe we who are awake are a little less ossified and desperate than we would be without them.

I have no fear of God, and yet fear keeps me awake at night,fear of the devil. And if I believe in the devil, I must believe in God. And if evil is abhorrent to me, I must be a saint. Henry, save me from beatification, from the horrors of static perfection. Precipitate me into the inferno.

I like life well enough to want to live it awake

Life is most transfixing when you are awake to diversity, not only of ethnicity, ability, gender, belief, and sexuality but also of age and experience. The worst mistake anyone can make is to perceive anyone else as lesser.

The man was allergic to sleep.

I kissed him once, she whispered. Well done. What did he do? Um... Deryn sighed. He woke up.

Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead, But the master is awake And he lives forever.

The more keenly we are awake to the perils of life, the higher and grander is the possibility of being truly brave.

Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of NightHas flung the Stone that puts the Stars to flight:And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caughtThe Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light.

Take time, slow down, be still, be awake to the Divine Mystery that looks so common and so ordinary yet is wondrously present.

O: Are you asleep, mi amor? C: [no response] O: There is a spider on your face. C: [no response] O: That's a little trick, Juan-George, to make sure someone's really asleep. There's no spider.

Has my heart gone to sleep? Have the beehives of my dreams stopped working, the waterwheel of the mind run dry, scoops turning empty, only shadow inside? No, my heart is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. Not asleep, not dreaming— its eyes are opened wide watching distant signals, listening on the rim of vast silence

No my soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its clear eyes open, far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence.

Perhaps the sad and empty language that today's flabby humanity pours forth, will, in all its horror, in all its boundless absurdity, re-echo in the heart of a solitary man who is awake, and then perhaps that man, suddenly realizing that he does not understand, will begin to understand.