logo

Quotes About Awake

In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake. But an unwavering and commanding virtue would compel even its most fantastic and faintest dreams to respect its ever wakeful authority; as we are accustomed to say carelessly, we should never have dreamed of such a thing. Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?
~ Henry David Thoreau
The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
~ Henry David Thoreau
millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?
~ Henry David Thoreau
To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face? We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me
~ Henry David Thoreau
To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face? We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep.
~ Henry David Thoreau
a lucid french idea that gauges right through your drunkenness and leaves you swimming helplessly in the past, in a fluid dream that makes you wide awake and yet doesn't jar your nerves.
~ Henry Miller
Awake! arise! the hour is late! Angels are knocking at thy door! They are in haste and cannot wait, And once departed come no more. Awake! arise! the athlete's arm Loses its strength by too much rest; The fallow land, the untilled farm Produces only weeds at best.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I used to not want to die in any way but in my sleep when I was a young man. I'd like to die awake now, if possible, with people around me who love me.
~ Alan Alda
I don't sleep very well when I travel. And as a result, I tend to be awake in cities when everyone else is asleep.
~ Moby
When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.
~ Jasper Johns
Just because your heart is beating, doesn't mean you're alive.
~ Brittany Burgunder
I was lost in the moments I decided to keep. To be awake in a dreamless sleep. And in that place between dream and sleep, I planted some more things I would like to keep.
~ Hubert Martin
Let us be awake and live every moment of our precious, loving, and spontaneous life.
~ Debasish Mridha
I am awake and witness to the beauty that resides behind you're soulful eyes of intent. Become my impaler.
~ Truth Devour, Unrequited
I hate it when my foot falls asleep during the day 'cause that means it's gonna be up all night.
~ Stephen Wright
I'm not really a morning person.
~ Steve Burton
On those early mornings, it is dark and normal people are still in bed.
~ Steve Walker
But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.
~ Charlie Sheen
I've had sleep paralysis.
~ The Weeknd
No man can become a saint in his sleep.
~ Henry Drummond
If he could sleep on it. He would make his bed with white sheets And disappear into the white, Like a man diving, If he could be certain That the light Would not keep him awake, The light that reaches To the bottom.
~ Donald Justice
By keeping patients awake for longer, we build up a strong sleep pressure.
~ Matthew Walker