Awake Quotes
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Every day I have to be awake to escape.. ..The whole world is sleepy. It is a real fight to be awake, to see everything new, for the first time in your life.
Karel Appel
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They slept profoundly, desperately, greedily, as though for the last time, as though they had been condemned to stay awake forever and had to drink in all the sleep in the world during these last hours.
Hermann Hesse
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I like to keep mobile. It keeps my mind awake.
Isabel Lucas
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Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.
William James
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As we are spiritually awake and alert we see His hand across the world and we see His hand in our own personal lives.
Neil L. Andersen
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I’m wide awake, I’ll drop you off for saying that, For days and two weeks, It was you who was defending such a lie, Oh what a lie, Was it a lie?
Pete Yorn
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If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly.
Andrew Harvey
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I tell you we're gonna get people awake to you you bastards and we're coming for ya we're coming straight for ya and you know it that's why you're so scared that's why you're moving so fast now, and you just better keep doing that dance, cuz you can feel that flame of rebellion starting to lap up and lick right up there oh yeah oh boy.
Alex Jones
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What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.
Caryl Churchill
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To stand by the beds at sunrise and see the flowers awake is a heavenly delight.
Celia Thaxter
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However young, the seeker who sets out upon the way Shines bright over the world. But day and night the person who is awake Shines in the radiance of the spirit. Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work, with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine!
Gautama Buddha
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Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.
Blaise Pascal
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Fire, fear, foes! Awake!
J. R. R. Tolkien
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To assume a cat's asleep is a grave mistake. He can close his eyes and keep both his ears awake.
Aileen Fisher
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I do not envy the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, dream of large women.
Cary Elwes
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Awake! thou that sleepest, arise from the dead! The Lord still lives today. His power has never abated. His Word has never changed. The things He did in Bible days, He still lives to do today. Not a burden is there He cannot bear nor a fetter He cannot break.
Aimee Semple McPherson
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By how much unexpected, by so much We must awake endeavour for defence; For courage mounteth with occasion.
William Shakespeare
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Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. The elephant hauls himself from the mud. In the same way drag yourself out of your sloth.
Gautama Buddha
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When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.
Heraclitus
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Awake thee, my Lady-Love! Wake thee, and rise! The sun through the bower peeps Into thine eyes.
George Darley
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Come, live with the doors of the senses guarded, diligent and mindful, vigilant and mindful, with the ways of the mind well watched, possessed of a mind that is awake and observing.
Gautama Buddha
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You all say you need us. Well, maybe you do, but not to help, with the millions of bubbly new minds about to be unleashed, with all the cities coming awake at last. Together, you're more than enough to change the world without us. So from now on, David and I are here to stand in your way. You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.
Scott Westerfeld
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Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.
William James
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I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.
Michael Dirda