Awake Quotes - Page 5

• I thought cocaine was a fantastic drug. A wonder drug, like everybody else. It gave you [an] energy burst. You could stay awake for days on end, and it was just marvelous and I didn't think it was evil at all.

  George Jung

  Thinking, Evil, Drug

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• I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Religion, Hippopotamus, I Can

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• The kid I was when I first left home Was looking for his freedom and a life of his own But the freedom that he found wasn't quite as sweet When the truth was known I have prayed for America I was made for America I can't let go till she comes around Until the land of the free Is awake and can see And until her conscience has been found.

  Jackson Browne

  Letting Go, Sweet, Peace

  Song: For America, 1986

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

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Writing, Night, Knows

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

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• I go to bed is around 11, and I do that for every race. I get good sleep. I don't lie awake for any race. That's my routine.

  Mario Andretti

  Lying, Sleep, Race

  "The Mario Andretti Indy 500 Interview: Part II". Interview with Steven Capwell, www.littlepocketguide.com.

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• 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

  Friendship, Eye, Play

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.28, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Since ancient times the term awakening has been used as a kind of metaphor that points to the transformation of human consciousness. There are parables in the New Testament that speak of the importance of being awake, of not falling back to sleep.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Fall, Sleep, Awakening

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• The word Buddha comes from the Sanskrit word Budh, meaning, to be awake. So Buddha is not a name and ultimately not a person, but a state of consciousness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Names, Consciousness, States

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• Everybody who is not awake spiritually is totally identified with and run by their thinking mind - the incessant voice in the head.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Running, Thinking, Voice

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• Men speak of dreaming as if it were a phenomenon of night and sleep. They should know better. All results achieved by us are self-promised, and all self-promises are made in dreams awake. Dreaming is the relief of labor,the wine that sustains us in act. We learn to love labor, not for itself, but for the opportunity it furnishes for dreaming, which is the great under-monotone of real life, unheard, unnoticed, because of its constancy. Living is dreaming. Only in the graves are there no dreams.

  Lew Wallace

  Dream, Real, Wine

  Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ”, p.477, Bible Study Steps

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• When you stood between somebody you loved and death, it was hard to be awake and it was hard to sleep.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Sleep, Hard

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• It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid. When you’re afraid, really afraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world. You make close friends. You become part of a tribe and you share the same blood- you give it together, you take it together.

  Tim O'Brien

  Blood, Giving, Together

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She asked me what was wrong, and I told her I had to end it. She was surprised, and asked my why I thought so. I told her it wasn't a thought, more a feeling, like I couldn't breathe and knew I had to get some air. It was a survival instinct, I told her. She said it was time for dinner. Then she sat me down and told me not to worry. She said moments like this were like waking up in the middle of the night: You're scared, your'e disoriented, and you're completely convinced you're right. But then you stay awake a little longer and you realize things aren't as fearful as they seem.

  David Levithan

  Night, Air, Realize Things

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• Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on blocking up the bends. Like waves to make the pebbles dance on my old floors. And turn them into rubies and jacinths; or at any rate, good imitations.

  Joyce Cary

  Lying, Block, Night

  Joyce Cary (1957). “THE HORSE'S MOUTH”

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• Thomas jabbed a thumb over his shoulder and raised his eyebrows. "You met our new friend?" Miho responded, a smirk flashing across his face. "Real piece of work, this guy. I gotta get me one of those shuck suits. Fancy stuff." "Am I awake?" Thomas asked. "You're awake. Now eat—you look horrible. Almost as bad as Rat Man over there, reading his book.

  James Dashner

  Real, Book, Reading

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• Her name rang in Will's mind like the chime of a bell; he wondered if any other name on earth had such an inescapable resonance to it. She couldn't have been named something awful, could she, like Mildred. He couldn't imagine lying awake at night, staring up at the ceiling while invisible voices whispered 'Mildred' in his ears. But Tessa--

  Cassandra Clare

  Lying, Night, Names

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.501, Simon and Schuster

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• He looked at her uncomfortably; blinking, you know, like one not sure whether he was awake or asleep.

  James M. Barrie

  Not Sure, Knows

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.98, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I waste much time gaping and wondering. During a walk or in a book or in the middle of an embrace, suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything. The bare fact of existence paralyses me- holds my mind in mortmain. To be alive is so incredible that all I do is to lie still and merely breathe- like an infant on its back in a cot. It is impossible to be interested in anything in particular while overhead the sun shines or underneath my feet grows a single blade of grass.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Lying, Book, Feet

  W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”

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• Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.

  John Keats

  Weed, Dream, Sea

  John Keats, “The Eve Of St. Agnes”

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• lying awake beside you, these thoughts run through my head.

  David Levithan

  Running, Lying, Beside You

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.90, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Love you more," I said playfully. "Not a chance," Xavier said, fully awake now. "I'm bigger, I can contain more love." "I'm smaller, therefore my love particles are more compressed, which means I can fit more in.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Love You, Mean, Chance

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• She lost much of her appetite. At night, an invisible hand kept shaking her awake every few hours. Grief was physiological, a disturbance of the blood. Sometimes a whole minute would pass in nameless dread - the bedside clock ticking, the blue moonlight coating the window like glue - before she`d remember the brutal fact that had caused it.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Grief, Night, Blue

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.78, Macmillan

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• I paused outside your door to see if you were awake, and you clearly were, so I came in." "You still can't just barge in." I crossed my arms over my chest. "Would you like me to go back out and knock?" Loki gestured to the doors behind him. "Would that make you feel better?

  Amanda Hocking

  Feel Better, Doors, Arms

  Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.526, Pan Macmillan

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• Will," she said softly, sleepily. "Last night--" You were kind to me, she was going to say. Thank you. The glare from his blue eyes stabbed through her. "There was no last night," he said through his teeth. At that, she sat up straight, almost awake. "Oh, truly? We just went right from one afternoon on through till the next morning? How odd no one else remarked on it. I should think it some miracle, a day with no night--

  Cassandra Clare

  Morning, Eye, Night

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• I have these realistic dreams and snap wide awake in the middle of the night. And for a while I can't work out what's real and what isn't... That kind of feeling. Do you have any idea what I'm saying?

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Real, Night

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