Awake Quotes
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Tell them I came, and no one answered, That I kept my word," he said. Never the least stir made the listeners, Though every word he spake Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house From the one man left awake: Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup, And the sound of iron on stone, And how the silence surged softly backward, When the plunging hoofs were gone.
Walter de La Mare -
Everything in your life is there to teach you something; you can be awake to it or asleep to it. I can't remember which master said this, but he said, when the monsters are coming, you have to let them eat cake. Feed them. The more you invite them in, the less scary they become.
Natasha Gregson Wagner
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When you're wide awake say it for goodness sake, it's gonna be a great day.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
Do you ever rub your eyes and suddenly find you're awake and not asleep, as you'd grown to suspect you were?
Vincent Price -
Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.
Chogyam Trungpa -
We got to stay awake for all these lizards and snakes; Some of them come as friends, some of them come as Jakes.
Kamaal Ibn John Fareed A Tribe Called Quest -
If you live in Birmingham, then being awake is not necessarily a desirable state.
TONY Wilson Musician Hot Chocolate -
In Medford, I awaked the Captain of the Minute Men; & after that, I alarmed almost every house, till I got to Lexington.
Paul Revere
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Thank God for sleep! And when you cannot sleep, still thank Him that you live to lie awake.
William Arthur Dunkerley -
The American dream? We don't have a dream in Britain because we're bloody awake!
Al Murray -
Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.
William James -
There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.
Heraclitus -
Awake, awake, English nobility! Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot.
William Shakespeare -
All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
William Butler Yeats
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...there is no such thing as a charmed life, not for any of us, no matter where we live or how mindfully we attend to the tasks at hand. But there are charmed moments, all the time, in every life and in every day, if we are only awake enough to experience them when they come and wise enough to appreciate them.
Katrina Kenison -
There are some who do not learn, and who do not improve as fast as they might, because their eyes and their hearts are not upon God; they do not reflect neither do they have that knowledge which they might have; they miss a good deal which they might receive. We have got to obtain knowledge before we obtain permanent happiness; we have got to be wide awake in the things of God.
Lorenzo Snow -
I crave white on white and black, but my thoughts race in glorious technicolour, prodding me awake, whipping away the warm blanket of invisibility every time it sears to smother my mind in nothing.
Sarah Kane -
The madman is a dreamer awake...
Sigmund Freud -
Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream
William Shakespeare -
What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.
William James -
We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.
Diogenes -
I awake, I meditate, get the kids off to school, go to the gym, go to the Favored Nations office, and usually at around 1 pm I'm home and do music the rest of the day.
Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz -
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
Honore de Balzac