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Quotes About Awake

He flapped his mouth some more, and then shook himself awake, came to a decision, and starting sneaking huge, theatrical looks around the restaurant, as a way of telling all the other lunchers that I Am Now Going To Give This Man An Important Piece of Paper.
~ Hugh Laurie
The king said, 'What wisdom have you gained from this event?' The scholar replied: 'I now understand that if anyone were to remain perceptive to the real condition of men all the time, he would go mad.' The dervish told him: 'Now you know that the dervish lore includes the knowledge of when to be awake and when to remain asleep.
~ Idries Shah
So what you face is a month of being absolutely wide awake, on an operating table and being operated on without anesthetic, while doing some of the hardest work that mankind has ever found.
~ Cordwainer Smith
Still, there is something emboldening about being awake when the rest of the world is sleeping. Like I know something they don't.
~ Craig Silvey
I think a good mom is an awake mom. At least for me, I've always been a kinder, better person awake than sleep-deprived!
~ Lisa Loeb
Can we awake from the century already 'or only cast over it 'propositions about the political 'as if to rescue ourselves?
~ Unknown
Where danger shews it self, apprehension cannot, without stupidity, be wanting; where danger is, sense of danger should be; and so much fear as should keep us awake, and excite our attention, industry, and vigour; but not to disturb the calm use of our reason, nor hinder the execution of what that dictates.
~ Unknown
I hate dreams like this," I said. "There's no plot—just random weird things happening. I get enough of that when I'm awake.
~ Jim Butcher
She awoke early and figured out the room coffeepot. She felt slowwitted and wondered if she was losing her mind, a concept she had always disagreed with. How could you lose your mind? It was always there though it could be in severe disrepair.
~ Jim Harrison
There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you.
~ Jodi Picoult
I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty I woke and found that life was Duty.
~ Ellen Sturgis Hooper
The Husband is on the Bed, but the bride is asleep, and so she does not come to know Him. While I am asleep, my Husband Lord is awake. Where can I go for advice?
~ Sri Guru Granth Sahib
People get complacent in relationships and stop working together. When there is distance in a relationship you essentially leave yourself open to mishaps. Stay awake and never get so comfortable that you give up your Voice.
~ Unknown
Her routine was as predictable as the rotation of the earth, beginning with how she rapped on my door every morning, at six, six fifteen, and six thirty, until at last I was awake.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
When people are good the world likes them and takes possession of them, and so eternity comes through people who are not good or who have been forgotten. Perhaps Christianity was good and the world liked it, so now it is going away and the immortals are beginning to awake.
~ W.B. Yeats
By how much unexpected, by so much We must awake endeavour for defence; For courage mounteth with occasion.
~ William Shakespeare
I do not sleep; I wish to meet my death awake.
~ Maria Theresa
Death had to take Roosevelt sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight.
~ Thomas R. Marshall
Apart from forgiveness, the monstrous past may awake at any time from hibernation to devour the present. And also the future.
~ Philip Yancey
I am so tired; all I want to do is sleep. I want to sleep all the day, from dawn until twilight that every evening comes a little earlier and a little more drearily. In the daytime, all I can think about is sleeping. But in the night I do is try to stay awake.
~ Philippa Gregory
SOCRATES: What evidence could be appealed to, supposing we were asked at this very moment whether we are asleep or awake? THEAETETUS: Indeed, Socrates, I do not see by what evidence it is to be proved; for the two conditions correspond in every circumstance like exact counterparts.
~ Plato
I needed a moment to understand that I'd been dreaming, that I had come awake, and another moment to remember where I had gone to bed.
~ Dean Koontz
Anna, I hope I didn't wake
~ Deborah Raney
I usually fall asleep between 11 P.M. - 1 A.M., and I wake up between 6:30 A.M. - 8:00 A.M.
~ Michael Seibel