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Quotes About Awake

Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I'm concerned that this will affect the quality. I might have a Scotch to keep me going, but I like to be as awake and as alert as possible.
~ Elliot Perlman
I don't feel awake in the morning unless I've showered.
~ Stella Maxwell
Your ears are always on - you have no ear lids. They work even when you sleep.
~ Julian Treasure
Consciousness and the brain have a relationship like that of a driver and car. Just as we need a driver if we are to move a car, consciousness must be awake if it is to make good use of the brain.
~ Ilchi Lee
I hardly ever dream, which is probably a reflection of the fact that I live my life fully and consciously. I solve my problems while awake and, as a result, spend my sleeping hours resting, not receiving inane messages.
~ Unknown
awake again, and he could
~ Unknown
We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life and defense. We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake.
~ Unknown
I loathed having to screw myself up to emergencies late in the day. Such things should take place in the early morning. It was like going over the top in France; I didn't mind it so much when it happened during a drizzling dawn, when one was anyhow depressed and only half-awake, but I abominated an attack in the cold-blooded daylight, or in the dusk when one wanted to relax.
~ John Buchan
Hoping you dance the night away or at least watch other people dance late into the night, or at least stay awake...
~ Unknown
I love sleep. My life has this tendency to fall apart when I'm awake.
~ Unknown
I'll be your dream, I'll be your wish, I'll be your fantasy, I'll be your hope, I'll be your love & all that you want me to be... I dream of you when I'm asleep, you even appear when I'm awake daydreaming. There is no escaping you. I just wish it was true.
~ Ritu Ghatourey
If you're awake, you're blessed. Life is a priceless gift, appreciate every minute of it.
~ Unknown
England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls?
~ William Blake
Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
~ Walter Scott
The thing that keeps me most awake is the desire and curiosity to learn more.
~ Juan Enriquez
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
We are slumberous poppies, Lords of Lethe downs, Some awake and some asleep, Sleeping in our crowns. What perchance our dreams may know, Let our serious may know.
~ Leigh Hunt
Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true.
~ Lorenz Hart
In order for your dreams to come true, you've got to stay awake.
~ Charles Durning
I was through with sleep. I didn't like what it brought me.
~ Unknown
If coffee were like dreams, then I would be wired in constant bliss, never needing sleep to live out my dreams.
~ Anthony Liccione
You have to be awake at 6 a.m., when everyone else is asleep.
~ Matthew Ashford
In the dark the mind runs on like a devouring machine, the only thing awake in the universe.
~ Don DeLillo
Everything might have come right in the course of time. Russian life could have been pulled into order. . . . What bitch woke up Lenin? Who couldn't bear the child sleeping? There is no precise answer to this question. . . . Anyway, he himself probably didn't know, although his supply of vengeance never dried up. . . .
~ Donald Rayfield