Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself.
Albert Claude

Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.
Al Goldstein

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

Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.
Jilly Cooper

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

That generation of Germans, along with volunteers from Denmark, Holland, even England and the Free India division and so on, we Europeans were alert and awake to the danger of Bolshevism.
Ernst Zundel

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

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

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

The secret is to be awake.To be awake is everything.
Gustave Meyrink

The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.
Dean Rusk

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

This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief.
Charles Olson