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

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.
Marilyn vos Savant

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

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

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

And I might add the confidence with which distracted persons do oftentimes, when they are awake, think, they see black fiends in places, where there is no black object in sight without them.
Robert Boyle

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
Thomas Moore

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

As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.
Jerzy Kosinski

But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.
Parker Posey

But staying awake is not real exciting for people to watch.
Randy Gardner

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

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

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

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
Babe Ruth

Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise.
Thomas Dekker

He would use amphetamines to stay awake because he would have late night maneuvers that would go way into the early morning hours and he was given pills to stay up for the long hours.
Priscilla Presley

History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
Philip Roth

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

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