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Quotes About Awake

Robinson had long mastered the art of coming instantly awake, a skill which had proved invaluable when his children were young. He could be out of his bed, supplying nutriment, water, or a story, before his wife turned over in her sleep. He attributed his long and happy marriage to the fact that unlike most mothers, his wife got to sleep through the night when he was at home.
~ Kerry Greenwood
A theologian is one who prays—and stays awake.
~ Kevin J. Vanhoozer
It was a terrible thing to be awake while some people flew, carrying the world over his head, and others slept, claiming it from under his feet.
~ Kiran Desai
Quem olha do lado de fora sonha; quem olha do lado de dentro desperta
~ Carl Jung
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning
~ Carl Sandburg
Once more to new creation Awake, and death gainsay, For death is swallowed up of life, And Christ is risen today!
~ George Newell Lovejoy
I wish it was all a dream. Then I could wake up.
~ George R.R. Martin
A nightmare this might be, yet it was no dream.
~ George R.R. Martin
The opportunity that God sends does not wake up him who is asleep.
~ Senegalese Proverb
A councillor ought not to sleep the whole night through - a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.
~ Homer
If there wasn't coffee, the entire world would shuffle around like zombies.
~ J.D. Robb
Try to kiss me, Detective, you won't wake up for a week.
~ J.D. Robb
Rehv cleared his throat. "What book is that?" The Moor looked up, his almond-shaped eyes focusing with a sharpness Rehv could have done without. "You're awake." "What book?" "It's The Shadow Death Lexicon." "Light reading. And here I thought you were a Candace Bushnell fan.
~ J.R. Ward
The dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity.
~ Jack Kerouac
Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.
~ Dean Rusk
WHILE THE WORLD'S ASLEEP, ANGELS REFUSE TO SLEEP!
~ Widad Akreyi
Wisdom is a very relaxed state of being. Wisdom is not knowledge, not information; wisdom is your inner being awake, alert, watchful, witnessing, full of light.
~ Rajneesh
Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep?
~ Swami Vivekananda
It is possible to cultivate a mind so spacious that it can be passionate and awake and responsive and involved and care about things, and noty struggle [p. 23]
~ Sylvia Boorstein
The Scriptures declare, "… it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed" (Rom. 13:11 KJV).
~ T.D. Jakes
It makes the situation bloom with a seductive, ephemeral intimacy, like they're the last people left awake at a house party, caught up in a conversation that won't count tomorrow morning.
~ Tana French
it was true that i wanted to be in a romantic relationship with someone 'out there.' it was even more deeply true that the communion i longed for was available in that very moment. if i remained awake to this communion, desires might energize and guide my attention, but they wouldn't blind me to the fullness and beauty that are already here.
~ Tara Brach
Ivy was the only person awake, her face lit up by her screen. And for the first time in a long time, it looked the way it had used to when she'd been on the track of some fascinating science problem: alive, intent, fiercely joyful.
~ Neal Stephenson
I didn't go to sleep until four, but I was in some one else's house, so I woke up early—at eight—with that crazy sleeping-at-someone-else's-house energy.
~ Ned Vizzini