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Quotes About Awake

Sundays, like a stanza break Or shower's end of all applause, For some old unexplaining sake The optimistic tread these shores, As lonely as the dead awake Or God among the dinosaurs.
~ Glyn Maxwell
No-Doz and Vivarin to stay awake.
~ Gregg Olsen
It's impossible to be really sad when you're asleep. You can be happy and afraid and angry in your dreams, but you have to be wide awake to be sad, don't you think?
~ Gregory David Roberts
Tell him to come back in the daylight, when I'm alive.
~ Gregory David Roberts
I never worry that I'll die in my sleep, because I'm never asleep!
~ Billy Crystal
For my eyes, I think an eyelash curler makes me look much more awake, even when I haven't gotten much sleep. It's a really important tool for a mom to have. The MAC one works for me.
~ Julia Restoin Roitfeld
Your dog has not lost any time in catching up on his beauty sleep." "Just do not utter any word that begins with w," she said, "especially with the letters a-l-k attached. You would soon discover how deeply asleep he is.
~ Mary Balogh
Sleep comes its little while. Then I wake in the valley of midnight or three a.m. to the first fragrances of spring which is coming, all by itself, no matter what.
~ Mary Oliver
The wind sighed through the trees, and the fallen leaves rattled up the deserted walks and around the hubcaps of parked cars. It was a faint and sorrowful sound, and the boy thought that he might be the only one in Boulder awake enough to hear it.
~ Stephen King
Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake. A way to discover what you love. A practice to return yourself to your body when the mind medleys threaten to usurp your sanity.
~ Geneen Roth
Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.
~ C. S. Lewis
You can't find the sound if you just love sleep.
~ Dennis Brown
We're asleep until we love.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Love has come to rule and transform; Stay awake, my heart, stay awake.
~ Rumi
How can a person who is awake avoid outrage at the world?
~ Jordan B. Peterson
And this is an amazing thing: the answer is already implicit in Genesis 1: to embody the Image of God—to speak out of chaos the Being that is Good—but to do so consciously, of our own free choice. Back is the way forward—as T. S. Eliot so rightly insisted—but back as awake beings, exercising the proper choice of awake beings, instead of back to sleep:
~ Jordan B. Peterson
He wasn't dead!
~ Ernest Cline
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
~ Ernest Hemingway
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
~ Ernest Hemingway
I don't necessarily believe there's a message in the fact that I'm an African-American Republican. I think there is a message that America as a whole, we are now awake. We are looking at a political construct and we're fairly disappointed. I think the message is no matter where you come from in this country, there is great potential.
~ Tim Scott
Cecelia Rose, she said, reaching for my hand, "far too many people die with a heart that's gone flat with indifference, and it surely must be a terrible way to go. Life will offer us amazing opportunities, but we've got to be wide-awake to recognize them.
~ beth hoffman
The cool thing about Kyle Killen, he writes really defined characters. I was a big fan of 'Awake' and also 'Lone Star.' I just think that he's a really, really special writer, and complex and deep, and a really smart dude.
~ Jaime Ray Newman
Against the mutability of dream, the natural laws advocated by our bewigged Enlightenment forebears are powerless. Newton, for instance, insists on gravity and other prohibitions of the physical world, from which (while we are awake) we are never free. But we can fly in dreams.
~ Gregory Maguire
The Thing of the idols, the green, sticky spawn of the stars, had awaked to claim his own. The stars were right again, and what an age-old cult had failed to do by design, a band of innocent sailors had done by accident. After vigintillions of years great Cthulhu was loose again, and ravening for delight.
~ H.P. Lovecraft