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Quotes About Awake

In the search for truth - that everything in nature seems to hide - man needs the assistance of all his faculties. All the senses should be awake.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Every part of me pulses with electric energy. Every synapse is firing, every part of me is alert, awake, and what I think is that this, this feeling, this is real. This feeling of being absolutely alive, absolutely in this moment, this is as real as it gets.
~ Theresa Alan
Awake, thou wintry earth - Fling off thy sadness! Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth Your ancient gladness!
~ Thomas Blackburn
Bob thought that perhaps there was opportunity on the boundary between being awake and asleep.
~ Thomas Campbell
Una vez despertado el pensamiento no vuelve a dormitar.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Rarely do things perish from my memory that are worth remembering. Rubbish dies instantly. Hence it happens that passages in Latin or English poets, which I never could have read but once (and that thirty years ago), often begin to blossom anew when I am lying awake, unable to sleep.
~ Thomas de Quincey
History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
~ Philip Roth
There have been times recently, since the begining of our troubles, when the site of David awake active, conscious, walking and talking has made me want to retch, so acute is my loathing of him.
~ Nick Hornby
The ambitions are wake up, breathe, keep breathing.
~ Nicole Blackman
Dreams aren't doing. Awake and take, or sleep on and show his sacrifice means nothing to you.
~ Nora Roberts
a nurse, since you're staying awake
~ Nora Roberts
With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep, and you're never really awake. With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep and you're never really awake.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake. —LEWIS BLACK
~ Cleo Coyle
Abaratians are very much about living in the moment; living life because that's what we've got, we've got today, we've got now, we've got being alive now and we have to be awake and alive in the moment and not asleep in our lives. And they would find the idea of sleeping through your life, of being bored - they would think that was very stupid - why would you be bored when there's so much to do and so much to see and so much to be?
~ Clive Barker
If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awoke Ã¢â'¬â€œ Aye, and what then?' S. T. Coleridge Anima Poetae
~ Clive Barker
A tired man is already in the grip of death and insanity ... A sane man is a man who is fully awake. As he grows tired, he loses his ability to rise above dreams and delusions, and life becomes steadily more chaotic.
~ Colin Wilson
He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.
~ Colum McCann
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was duty. I worked—and behold, duty was joy.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
he says: I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was duty. I worked – and behold, duty was joy.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Oh, to awake from dreaming!
~ Virginia Woolf
Oh, to awake from dreaming! Look, there is the chest of drawers. Let me pull myself out of this waters. But they heap themselves on me; they sweep me between their great shoulders; I am turned; I am tumbled; I am stretched, among these long lights, these long waves, these endless paths, with people pursuing, pursuing.
~ Virginia Woolf