Awake Quotes - Page 22

• The outer form of Buddhism, of practice, is etiquette - a series of ways to live intelligently that keep you alive, awake and happy, wakeful.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Practice

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• 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

  Father, Real, Sleep

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• And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales awake; For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take.

  Callimachus

  Art, Lying, Long Ago

  Callimachus, “Heraclitus”

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• Whether or not the President is sleeping well won't be a factor in his re-election. That will depend on what he does while he is awake.

  Bob Schieffer

  Sleep, President, Doe

  "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. September 2, 2011.

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• When you dream, all the scenery, characters, events, perils, and outcomes are built from your own consciousness, the darks and oppressions as well as the delights. Same with the world awake, though it takes you longer to build it.

  Richard Bach

  Dream, Character, Events

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• Let those who want to dance, dance. Let those who can awaken, awake.

  Rene Barjavel

  Want

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• eating is the sleeping of being awake.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Sleep, Eating

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• In between shooting for Awake, I was attempting to have my own pilot season. The audition for Anger Management actually came during a week that I was already testing for a couple other shows and we werent really letting any other shows into the mix.

  Daniela Bobadilla

  Couple, Auditions, Shooting

  "Daniela Bobadilla Talks ANGER MANAGEMENT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 20, 2012.

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• As we are spiritually awake and alert we see His hand across the world and we see His hand in our own personal lives.

  Neil L. Andersen

  Hands, World, Personal Life

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• We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Interesting, Way

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.173, Modern Library

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• The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake, and yet it is with him all the time. Every stroke he strikes is for his child. New social aims, new moral motives, come vaguely up to him.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Baby, Children, Father

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2007). “Outdoor Studies, Poems”, p.237, Reprint Services Corporation

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• I'm widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I'm not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Writing, People, Something New

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• There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ... Time, self-pity, apathy, bitterness, and exhaustion can take the Christmas out of the child, but you cannot take the child out of Christmas.

  Erma Bombeck

  Christmas, Morning, Children

  Erma Bombeck (2011). “I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression”, p.119, Fawcett

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• Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?

  Virginia Woolf

  Sleep, People, Want

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1789, Delphi Classics

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• I want to meet my God awake.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Death, Want

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• travel never made a bore interesting; it only makes for a well-traveled bore, in the same way coffee makes for a wide-awake drunk. In fact, the more a bore travels, the worse he gets. The only advantage in it for his friends and family is that he isn't home as much.

  Peg Bracken

  Coffee, Home, Drunk

  Peg Bracken (1973). “But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• We are slumberous poppies,
  Lords of Lethe downs,
  Some awake and some asleep,
  Sleeping in our crowns.
  What perchance our dreams may know,
  Let our serious may know.

  Leigh Hunt

  Dream, Sleep, Serious

  Leigh Hunt (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (Illustrated)”, p.329, Delphi Classics

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• Like earth, awake, and warm, and bright
  With joy the spirit moves and burns;
  So up to thee! O Fount of Light!
  Our light returns.

  John Sterling

  Moving, Light, Joy

  John Sterling (1842). “The Poetical Works of John Sterling”, p.127

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• One-half of life is admitted by us to be passed in sleep, in which, however, it may appear otherwise, we have no perception of truth, and all our feelings are delusions; who knows but the other half of life, in which we think we are awake, is a sleep also, but in some respects different from the other, and from which we wake when we, as we call it, sleep. As a man dreams often that he is dreaming, crowding one dreamy delusion on another.

  Blaise Pascal

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.96

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• Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.

  Eudora Welty

  Writing, Stories, Way

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• The bore is good for promoting sleep; but though he causeth sleep in others, it is uncertain whether he ever sleeps himself; as few can keep awake in his company long enough to see. It is supposed that when he sleeps it is with his mouth open.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Sleep, Long, Mouths

  Maria Edgeworth (1848). “Harrington ; Thoughts on bores ; and, Ormond”, p.209

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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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• Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble.

  Hannah More

  Humble, Sleep, Pride

  Hannah More (1840). “Miscellaneous Works: Tragedies. Miscellaneous poems. Hymns and ballads. Sacred Dramas. Coelebs. Practical piety. Moriana”, p.753

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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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• I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Children, Wall, Lying

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Shawn St. Jean (2006). “"The Yellow Wall-paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Dual-text Critical Edition”, p.31, Ohio University Press

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