Awake At Night Quotes

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Good Night, Dream, Art

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.92, Penguin

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• 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 Morning, Good Night, Good Day

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• 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

  Love, Funny, Inspiring

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• I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Writing, Night, Awake

  The Writers Write Interview, writerswrite.co.za. February 10, 2015.

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• Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?" ...Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, "We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Hate, Philosophy, Lying

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• So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.

  Muriel Spark

  Lying, Night, Silence

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• I've never stayed awake at night over a chance I took that failed, but I've stayed awake over chances I didn't take.

  Garth Brooks

  Night, Risk, Chance

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

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Arundel MSS British Museum (transl. Edward MacCurdy in The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Vol. 1, Ch. 1)

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• 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

  Witty, Funny Life, Lying

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• Many of us are slaves to our minds. Our own mind is our worst enemy. We try to focus, and our mind wanders off. We try to keep stress at bay, but anxiety keeps us awake at night. We try to be good to the people we love, but then we forget them and put ourselves first.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Love, Stress, Night

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• Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

  Walter Scott

  Mind, Desire, Awake

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• Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Life, Dream

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.170, Yale University Press

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• In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

  Judy Garland

  Love, Good Night, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Baltasar Gracian

  Lying, Sleep, Emotion

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.86, Shambhala Publications

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• Sometimes I lie awake at night, and wonder if my life would be different if I had to do it over... Then a voice comes to me out of the dark that says, "boy, there's an original thought!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Lying, Dark, Boys

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• Sometimes I lie awake at night thinking about all the dumb things I do every day... If I live to be eighty and I do ten dumb things each day... That would be about two hundred and ninety thousand dumb things... When you add up all the dumb things you do, it's best to use round figures.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Lying, Night, Thinking

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• If I've learned anything in twenty-nine years, it's that every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar. My gift - bad choice of words - is that I can look at you, him, her, them, whoever, and tell right away what is keeping them awake at night: money; feelings of insignificance; overwhelming boredom; evil children; job troubles; or perhaps death, in one of its many costumes, perched in the wings. What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.

  Douglas Coupland

  Jobs, Children, Night

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• I used to lie awake at night, willing myself to put in the hard work, the determination, the passion.

  Kevin Pietersen

  Determination, Lying, Hard Work

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Honore de Balzac

  Inspirational, Good Morning, Marriage

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• I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

  Laura Marling

  Country, Book, Night

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

  Wendell Berry

  Prayer, Lying, Fall

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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• We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.

  Maj Sjowall

  Lying, Night, Pay

  "The queen of crime". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2009.

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• When it’s too good, you do it over again. Too good is too easy. If it’s too easy you have to worry. If you’re not lying awake at night worrying about it, the reader isn’t going to, either. I always know that when I get a good night’s sleep, the next day I’m not going to get any work done. Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It’s not all inspirational.

  James M. Cain

  Good Night, Lying, Writing

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

  Rene Descartes

  Dream, Sleep, Imagine

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• When you are more awake at nights, they'll toss and turn, they'll think more, they get frustrated. And when that starts to happen, you really don't sleep even more because you're making your body tense and your mind is getting more and more active.

  Shelby Harris

  Sleep, Thinking, Night

  Source: bigthink.com

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