Awake Quotes - Page 24

• Because the priest must have like every dog his day
  Or keep us all awake with baying at the moon,
  We and our dolls being but the world were best away.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dog, Moon, Dolls

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• All that I have said and done,
  Now that I am old and ill,
  Turns into a question till
  I lie awake night after night
  And never get the answers right.

  William Butler Yeats

  Lying, Night, Done

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.298, Wordsworth Editions

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• Rage against the world, if you like, but quietly, or the Guardians will awake.

  Mason Cooley

  Fate, World, Rage

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• Why are you lying awake, thinking that you're a terrible person? To keep my mind occupied when I can't sleep. Some people count sheep. I self-loathe.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Lying, Sleep, Thinking

  Rainbow Rowell (2011). “Attachments”, p.199, Hachette UK

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• Some designers retain a sense of humour about what they do, but others are deathly serious and have no life outside of it; they're lying awake night after night constructing dresses in their heads.

  Helena Christensen

  Lying, Night, Dresses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I must conclude that Conscience, if that be the name of it, was not given us for no purpose, or for a hindrance. However flattering order and expediency may look, it is but the repose of a lethargy, and we will choose rather to be awake, though it be stormy, and maintain ourselves on this earth, and in this life, as we may, without signing our death-warrant. Let us see if we cannot stay here, where He has put us, on his own conditions. Does not his law reach as far as his light? The expedients of the nations clash with one another: only the absolutely right is expedient for all.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Integrity, Light, Order

  Henry David Thoreau (1906). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers”

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• O Cyrus , great King, King of Kings, Achaemenian King, King of the land of Iran. I, the Shahanshah of Iran, offer thee salutations from myself and from my nation. Rest in peace, for we are awake, and we will always stay awake.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Rest In Peace, Kings, Iran

  Opening speech during the 2500th anniversary of Cyrus' founding of the Persian Empire, October 12, 1971.

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• In our lonely hours we awake those sleeping images with which our memories are stored, and vitalize them again.

  Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis

  Lonely, Memories, Sleep

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• The younger generation is vibrant with a new psychology; the new spirit is awake in the masses . . . Each generation . . . will have its creed.

  Alain LeRoy Locke

  Psychology, Generations, Spirit

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• Society is composed of slow Christians and wide-awake sinners.

  Josh Billings

  Christian, Society, Wide Awake

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• A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Discipline, Vigor

  Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.865

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• We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep; but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sleep, Clouds, Waking

  Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• One of the most horrible, yet most important, discoveries of our age has been that, if you really wish to destroy a person and turn him into an automaton, the surest method is not physical torture, in the strict sense, but simply to keep him awake, i.e., in an existential relation to life without intermission.

  W. H. Auden

  Discovery, Wish, Important

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• Henry Ward Beecher, so the story goes, was once asked by a young preacher how he could keep his congregation wide awake and attentive during his sermons. Beecher replied that he always had a man watch for sleepers, with instructions, as soon as he saw anyone start nodding or dozing, to hasten to the pulpit and wake up the preacher. Aren't you and I usually less sensible? Would we not be inclined to have the watcher wake up not ourselves but the fellows caught sleeping? In other words, aren't we disposed always to blame others?

  B. C. Forbes

  Sleep, Men, Watches

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• Certain names always awake certain prejudices.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Names, Prejudice, Certain

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• You gotta grow, you gotta learn by your mistakes; You gotta die a little everyday just to try to stay awake; When you believe there's no mountain you can climb; And if you get it wrong you'll get it right next time, next time.

  Gerry Rafferty

  Mistake, Believe, Everyday

  Song: Get It Right Next Time

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• My mom worked in restaurants for 60 years, and what I learned from her is a lot. But if I had to boil it down, take your work very seriously, but don't take yourself too seriously. Work harder than everyone else and never complain about it. Don't go to bed if you're not proud of the product of your day; stay awake until you are.

  Rachael Ray

  Mom, Hard Work, Years

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• How can such deep-imprinted images sleep in us at times, till a word, a sound, awake them?

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Sleep, Sound

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• When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.

  Heraclitus

  Dream, Men, World

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• I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Respect, Boredom, Effort

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.255, Harvard University Press

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• When there is spiritual awakening, you awaken into the fullness, the aliveness, and also the sacredness of now. You were absent, asleep, and now you are present, awake.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Awakening, Fullness

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!

  Zhuangzi

  Reality, Deception, Fool

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I worry about ridiculous things, you know, how does a guy who drives a snowplough get to work in the morning. ... That can keep me awake for days.

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Morning, Humor

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• Reality is a magic lady, sometimes very mysterious. To me she is very passionate. She is real not only when she is awake, walking down the streets, but also at night when she is dreaming or when she is having nightmares. When I am writing, I am always paying tribute to her - to that lady called Reality.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Dream, Real, Writing

  Source: apracticalpolicy.org

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• Advance like a hero. Do not be thwarted by anything. How many days will this body last, with its happiness and misery? When you have the human body, then rouse the Atman within and say-I have reached the state of fearlessness!...and then as long as the body endures, speak unto others this message of fearlessness: 'Thou art That', 'Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached'

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Art, Hero

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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