Awake Quotes

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

Wisdom, Learning, Wide

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

Heart, Touch, Flowers

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.
Henry Miller

Men, Live, Long

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

Good, Great, Morning

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Him, Through, Soul

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
Baltasar Gracian

Sleep, Lie, Afterwards

It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true.
Roger Babson

True, Person, Dream

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life.
Haruki Murakami

Life, Today, Writing

I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.
Stan Laurel

Find, Dream, Asleep

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

Nothing, Hard, Keep

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
Walter Scott

Success, Mind, Desire

A song will keep going round in my brain and keep me awake.
Norah Jones

Brain, Keep, Song

Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Everything, Thought, While

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
Marc Chagall

Sleep, Long, Sense

Because too many times in life there's just one person that I met, just one thing that I heard, one movie that I saw, one song that was sung, that changed my life. So I'm always trying to stay awake to be in the moment, and capture the moments when they come, because they come and go all the time.
Mike Singletary

Life, Time, Person

I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night. I want to stir the pulse, yes, but also to stir the heart. I hope 'The Woods' does that.
Harlan Coben

Love, Hope, Heart

You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside.
James Daly

Morning, Sunday, Job

As a kid I'd lie awake at night and convince myself that a meteor was about to hit the Earth. It's my fatalistic streak, which I've inherited from my mum. I firmly believe something cataclysmic is going to happen in my lifetime and I have to be prepared to run for my life when the time comes.
Ellie Goulding

Life, Time, Lie

I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night.
Harlan Coben

Love, Night, Living

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.
Haruki Murakami

Dream, While, Writer

As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change.
Haruki Murakami

Change, Work, Dream

Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty, there is evidence of a phenomenon called circadian desynchronosis which causes one's brain to function slowly at those times of day when it thinks it should be asleep, regardless how wide awake the body is.
Evan Davis

Live, Brain, Times

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.
Lyn Nofziger

Funny, Lie, Night

To awake from death is to die in peace.
Douglas Horton

Peace, Death, Die

When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.
George Saunders

Love, Short, Around

When we're awake, cortisol can fragment memories - one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very fragmentation allows creative recombinations of ideas.
Jeffrey Kluger

Night, Reason, Creative

My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.
Frank R. Wolf

Hope, Silence, Words

I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.
Emmanuelle Beart

True, Days, Less

I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.
Annie Dillard

Free, Away, Again

Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.
John Bunyan

God, Heart, Sleep

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