Awake Quotes
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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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Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.
Chogyam Trungpa
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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
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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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If you live in Birmingham, then being awake is not necessarily a desirable state.
TONY Wilson Musician
Hot Chocolate
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Awake, awake, English nobility! Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot.
William Shakespeare