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Quotes About Awake

In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.
~ Ernest Hemingway
To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity.
~ Rajneesh
One third of the people of the world are asleep at any given moment. The other two thirds are awake and probably stirring up trouble somewhere.
~ Dean Rusk
I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
~ Walt Whitman
I keep my eyes wide open all the time.
~ Johnny Cash
Now I lay me down to sleep In mud that's many fathoms deep. If I'm not here when you awake Just hunt me up with an oyster rake
~ Shelby Foote
How long till our powers are back? (Kat) A few hours according to last time. (Sin) Sweet, and we have how long till the bitches awake? (Kat) Less than two. (Sin) Can you say screwed, boys and girls? Yes, I thought you could. (Kat)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Hey, Sunshine, your friend's awake. What's his name? (Starla) I don't know, Starla. I didn't ask. (Sunshine) You look like a Steve. Are you hungry, Steve? (Starla)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Settle down, pup. I ain't had my caffeine yet." – Sundown
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
...life without coffee is not really life.
~ Michael O'Brien
At last awake from life, that insane dream we take for waking now.
~ Robert Browning
If that was not enough, Franklin also kept his exhausted younger cohort awake far into the night with an interminable disquisition on colds.
~ John Ferling
Halt? Are you awake?" "No." The ill humor in the one-word reply was unmistakable. "Oh. Sorry." "Shut up.
~ John Flanagan
Awake, awake, you that sleep. Open your eyes, stand on your feet, and behold and see what a sea of blood and wrath is here!" See and believe; believe and consider; consider and fear; fear and fly; and make haste in your work. Your work is great and mighty; diversions are many; adversaries are strong; your strength is small; your time is short; your account is great. Death and judgment are at the door. Therefore, up and be doing, now or never.
~ John Fox
Talitha kumi!
~ John Klein
At two-thirty I was wide awake. I knew there was no way I would fall back asleep, not for hours. I put on sweatpants and went downstairs to the computer room. The only light came from the Coke machine and the "Flying Through Space" screensaver. I put six dimes in the machine and a can tumbled out like a body falling down the stairs.
~ Elif Batuman
At night the grackle Love will start To shriek and shrill, Nor will he once be still Till he has wide awake the backward heart. So selfish Love, Go hush; Feathers and claws take off Or seek some bush.
~ Elizabeth Bishop
Insomnia" perhaps she's a daytime sleeper.
~ Elizabeth Bishop
I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.
~ Elizabeth Edwards
How can I stay awake even when it hurts? What might those secrets at dawn be? Why am I so afraid to slow down and listen? What will it take for my longing for wakefulness to become stronger than my fear of change?
~ Elizabeth Lesser
Nu-i vina aramei dac? se trezeÅŸte trâmbi??!
~ Arthur Rimbaud
My own voice chokes in my throat. I am still in a dream. Not a dream, a nightmare. A nightmare where you scream but can't make a sound. A nightmare where you think you're awake but you're unable to open your eyes or move a muscle. Where you're completely paralyzed.
~ Atiq Rahimi
Cuando despertó, el dinosaurio todavía estaba allí.
~ Augusto Monterroso
Prot: I'm not tired. Brewer: I am. Prot: Perhaps you're getting too much sleep. All your beings seem to sleep a lot. Is that because it's so awful to be awake?
~ Gene Brewer