Awake Quotes - Page 29

• When I'm awake, I don't want to go to sleep. I don't want the hassle of turning the light off, putting my head down and then all the thoughts. I don't want all those thoughts... thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts and I'm: 'I don't want this'. I have to knock myself out to go to sleep.

  Robbie Williams

  Sleep, Light, Want

  "Feel: Robbie Williams". Book by Chris Heath, www.bbc.co.uk. 2004.

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• But I must go on," said the Lady Amalthea, "for it is never finished. Even when I wake, I cannot tell what is real, and what I am dreaming as I move and speak and eat my dinner. I remember what cannot have happened, and forget something that is happening to me know. People look at me as though I should know them, and I do know them in the dream, and always the fire draws me nearer, though I am awake—

  Peter S. Beagle

  Dream, Real, Moving

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• There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you.

  Jodi Picoult

  Dream, Sleep, Teeth

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• I’d spent my whole life waiting to awake on an ordinary morning in the town that was destined to be my home, in the arms of the woman I was destined to love, knowing the people and doing the work that would make up the changing but essentially invariable landscape of my particular destiny.

  Michael Chabon

  Morning, Home, Destiny

  Michael Chabon (2011). “Wonder Boys”, p.55, Open Road Media

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• To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. It matters not what the clocks say or the attitudes and labors of men. Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Attitude, Men

  "Walden".

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• It's so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won't be awake for another five hours, but I can't help feeling that we're sharing this clear and beautiful morning.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Beautiful, Morning, Air

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.305, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that I did not venture to think of writing them down, and then in the morning they vanished; and yet they lay hidden within me like the hard kernel within an old brittle husk.

  Hermann Hesse

  Beautiful, Morning, Writing

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.30, Macmillan

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• The rain set early in tonight, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its best to vex the lake: I listened with heart fit to break. When glided in Porphyria; straight She shut the cold out and the storm, And kneeled and made the cheerless grate Blaze up and all the cottage warm.

  Robert Browning

  Rain, Heart, Lakes

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.358, Wordsworth Editions

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• A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it

  Carlos Castaneda

  Spiritual, Respect, Courage

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• When the fiddle had stopped singing Laura called out softly, "What are days of auld lang syne, Pa?" "They are the days of a long time ago, Laura," Pa said. "Go to sleep, now." But Laura lay awake a little while, listening to Pa's fiddle softly playing and to the lonely sound of the wind in the Big Woods,… She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Lonely, Sleep, Wind

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (2003). “Little House in the Big Woods”, HarperCollins

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• Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night? Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken, While shadows like to thee do mock my sight? Is it thy spirit that thou send'st from thee So far from home into my deeds to pry, To find out shames and idle hours in me, The scope and tenor of thy jealousy? O, no! thy love, though much, is not so great: It is my love that keeps mine eye awake: Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat, To play the watchman ever for thy sake: For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere, From me far off, with others all too near.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Eye, Home

  William Shakespeare (1838). “The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight].”

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• As I drift back into sleep, I can't help thinking that it's a wonderful thing to be right about the world. To weigh the evidence, always incomplete, and correctly intuit the whole, to see the world in a grain of sand, to recognize its beauty, its simplicity, its truth. It's as close as we get to God in this life, and reside in the glow of such brief flashes of understanding, fully awake, sometimes for two or three seconds, at peace with our existence. And then back to sleep we go.

  Richard Russo

  Sleep, Thinking, Two

  FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Dec 28, 2010

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• One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Change, Sleep

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• Fire, fear, foes! Awake!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fire, Foe

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• When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there.

  Jodi Picoult

  Needs

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• And yet, and yet, in these our ghostly lives, Half night, half day, half sleeping, half awake, How if our waking life, like that of sleep, Be all a dream in that eternal life To which we wake not till we sleep in death

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Dream, Sleep, Night

  Pedro Calderon De La Barca (2015). “Life Is A Dream”, p.115, eKitap Projesi

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• And we will be ready, at the end of every day will be ready, will not say no to anything, will try to stay awake while everyone is sleeping, will not sleep, will make the shoes with the elves, will breathe deeply all the time, breathe in all the air full of glass and nails and blood, will breathe it and drink it, so rich, so when it comes we will not be angry, will be content, tired enough to go, gratefully, will shake hands with everyone, bye, bye, and then pack a bag, some snacks, and go to the volcano.

  Dave Eggers

  Tired, Sleep, Glasses

  Dave Eggers (2013). “A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story”, p.411, Simon and Schuster

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• Wait," I say. "I think you're mistaken. Saying there is no dream is the same as saying everything is a dream. Isn't it? Everyone's a dreamer? Extraordinary things happen all the time even when we're awake. What I meant to suggest to you, if indeed that was me in your dream doing the suggesting, is that there is only one world. This one. The dream is real. The ordinary is the wonderful. The wonderful is the ordinary.

  Samantha Hunt

  Dream, Real, Thinking

  Samantha Hunt (2009). “The Invention of Everything Else”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I offer Emily half of my hit of acid- Love Saves the Day. It's my second or third time tripping, Emily's first, and she's understandably trepid. Awake all night, at one point I find her touching her reflection in a cruelly lit dorm bathroom, asking if she'll ever be the same. I kiss her then for the first time and whisper, No.

  Nick Flynn

  Kissing, Reflection, Night

  Nick Flynn (2016). “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”, p.96, Faber & Faber

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• To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Alive, Mets

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness is a measure of our aliveness.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Beautiful Life, Degrees, Truth Is

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• I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.

  Jodi Picoult

  Daughter, Empathy, Cry

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sleep, Men, Thinking

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• I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep is the consummate protection against the unseemliness that is the invariable consequence of being awake. What you don't know won't hurt you. Sleep is death without the responsibility.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Hurt, Sleep, Responsibility

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.111, Vintage

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• A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance.

  Carlos Castaneda

  War, Men, Don Juan

  Carlos Castaneda (1972). “The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge”, p.32, Univ of California Press

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