Quotes About Awake

To fancy Charles in a savage state that night was quite ridiculous, for as long as she had remained awake she had heard faint sounds from the laboratory above; sounds as if of sobbing and pacing, and of a sighing which told only of despair's profoundest depths.

Jet lag is tough, to be honest. For me, it's much easier to force yourself to stay awake.

My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my friends under the apple trees.

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

Just as good and virtue, sin and evil can only be given in vigil. Who sleeps, sleeps; for the asleep there is no sin, just as there is no good, nor virtue. There is only sleep.

If all I have to do is remain awake to be considered romantic, than I can promise you a great deal of romance in our marriage.

In bitter safety I awake, unfriended; And while the dawn begins with slashing rain I think of the Battalion in the mud. 'When are you going out to them again? Are they not still your brothers through our blood?

HOW DO YOU LIVE A MEANINGFUL DAY? When you awake in the morning, while you are still lying in bed, think for a moment: What does it mean to be awake and alive? Begin each day with a prayer; thank G-d for the new day. Acknowledge your soul and the vibrancy and fortitude it provides. Think about what you would like to accomplish that would make today a meaningful day. Train yourself to do this every morning and you will begin to see your life in a new, sharper focus.

To keep our eyes open longer were but to act our Antipodes. The huntsmen are up in America, and they are already past their first sleep in Persia. But who can be drowsy at that hour which freed us from everlasting sleep? or have slumbering thoughts at that time, when sleep itself must end, and, as some conjecture, all shall awake again?

Ah, pray make no mistake,We are not shy;We're very wide awake,The moon and I!

I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion.

In desperation I started jumping up and down, hitting my head against the ceiling, trying to jolt myself awake. "WAKEUPWAKEUPWAKEUP!

A new darkness pulled away the room, inked out flesh and outlined bones. My mother was wide awake again. She become sharply herself - bone, wire, antenna - but she was not afraid. She had been pared down like this before, when she had travelled up the mountains into rare snow - alone in white not unlike being alone in black. She had also sailed a boat safely between land and land.

The delights of the poet as I jotted them down turned out to be light, solitude, the natural world, love, time, creation itself. Suddenly after the months of depression I am fully alive in all these areas, and awake.

I, an alarm, awake as a / rumor of war, / lie stretching into dawn, / unasked and unheeded.

My intention, of course, had been to wake up early and call Father Dominic to warn him about Heather. But intentions are only as good as the people who hold them, and I guess I must be worthless because I didn't wake up until my mother shook me awake, and by then it was 7:30, and my ride was leaving without me.

You're awake, he said from the window seat where he'd been sitting with Spike and a copy of Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book that I happen to know he'd stolen from my mother's bookshelf downstairs.

Oh, God, awake our souls to see—You are what we want, not just what we need. Yes, our life's protection, but also our heart's affection. Yes, our soul's salvation, but also our heart's exhilaration. Unfailing love—a love that will not let us go!

Picture God nudging you and me awake before dawn because He can hardly wait to be with us.

There is no place so awake and alive as the edge of becoming. But more than that, birthing the kind of woman who can authentically say, 'My soul is my own,' and then embody it in her life, her spirituality, and her community is worth the risk and hardship.

The mind is a different organ by night and by day.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

She turned her head slightly, relieved that she could do so, and found Dragon not asleep or at least drowsily replete, as he should have been—oh no, not he—but wide awake, propped up on an elbow, and looking at her with what appeared suspiciously to be amusement. "I don't think you are human," she said sulkily. He grinned. "I felt like a god a few moments ago, but that's to your credit, not mine.

Do you dream of your victims?" he asked. "Yes," the murderer told him. "But only when I'm awake." Anzola had never heard a more perfect definition of guilt, and didn't ask him anything else on the subject.