Awake Quotes

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway

Life, Love, Sleep

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.
Mark Twain

Care, Others, Smoking

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
Honore de Balzac

Good, Morning, Husband

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.
Ronald Reagan

Find, Coffee, Drink

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life, Dreams, God

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
Erma Bombeck

Christmas, Morning, Nothing

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Dreams, Truest

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
Henry David Thoreau

Keep, Learn, Ourselves

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Art, Mean, Stay

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Henry David Thoreau

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
Henry David Thoreau

Morning, Eyes, Sun

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
Plato

Thoughts, Moment, Another

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
Dale Carnegie

Life, Today, Yourself

Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.
Charles Stanley

Time, Money, Women

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
Leonardo da Vinci

Dreams, Why, Eye

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Carl Sagan

Minds, Needs, Works

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'
Charles M. Schulz

Lie, Night, Sometimes

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
Walt Whitman

Time, Sleep, Nothing

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
Erich Fromm

Dreams, Sleep, Nothing

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
Rene Descartes

Dreams, Sleep, Same

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
Salvador Dali

Morning, Experience, Again

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.
William James

Half, Compared, Ought

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.
Charles M. Schulz

Nothing, Lie, Night

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
Alexander Pope

Brain, Thoughts, Rise

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
Carl Sandburg

Morning, Eyes, Times

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
Plutarch

Men, Common, Asleep

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
Samuel Johnson

Life, Morning, Bed

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
Carl Sandburg

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.
Jane Roberts

Meaning, Dreaming, Events

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Josh Billings

Wisdom, Learning, Wide

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