Awake Quotes:

My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.

- Adyashanti

topic: Dream, Awakening, Awake

As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

- Aimee Bender

source: FaceBook post by Aimee Bender from May 25, 2014

topic: Dream, Writing, Awake

The truest experience of life is when we dream awake.

- Alberto Villoldo

topic: Dream, Life Is, Awake

How lovely it is to dream while you are awake.

- Andre Agassi

source: Andre Agassi (2009). “Open”, p.154, Vintage

topic: Dream, Lovely, Awake

When I awake dramatically I start off my day by reciting aloud a fan letter.

- Austin Mahone

topic: Fans, Letters, Awake, Reciting

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Baseball, Lonesome, Awake

What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

- Caryl Churchill

source: Caryl Churchill (2008). “Plays Four”, Nick Hern Books

topic: Dream, Real, Awake

A dream project is anything I do when I'm awake.

- Charles Fleischer

topic: Dream, Projects, Awake

Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.

- Chogyam Trungpa

topic: Confusion, Becoming, Awake

With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Insomnia, Awake

Still, there is something emboldening about being awake when the rest of the world is sleeping. Like I know something they don't.

- Craig Silvey

topic: Sleep, World, Awake

It was one of the occasions when Lymond asleep wrecked the peace of mind of more people than Lymond awake.

- Dorothy Dunnett

topic: People, Mind, Awake

To awake from death is to die in peace.

- Douglas Horton

topic: Death, Dying, Awake

Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep.

- E. B. White

topic: Half, Periods, Awake

We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake.

- Erich Fromm

topic: Dream, Judgment, Awake, Interpretation Of Dreams, Lucid Dreaming

I've often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake

- Federico Garcia Lorca

topic: Order, Lost, Awake, Lost Myself

And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Awake

Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Spirituality, Awake, Witness

Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake.

- Geneen Roth

topic: Meditation, Tools, Awake

Healing is about being awake. Being broken and whole at the same time.

- Geneen Roth

topic: Healing, Broken, Awake

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Awake

To be awake is to be alive.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Loving Life, Alive, Awake

I like to keep mobile. It keeps my mind awake.

- Isabel Lucas

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

topic: Mind, Awake, Mobile

Those who are Awake live in a state of constant amazement ...

- Jack Kornfield

topic: Gratitude, States, Awake, Amazement

The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.

- Jackson Pollock

topic: Secret, Awake, Secret To Success

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

- James M. Barrie

topic: Awake, Not Sure

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

- Jane Roberts

topic: Dream, Events, Awake, Small Dreams

When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.

- Jasper Johns

source: Kirk Varnedoe, Jasper Johns (1996). “Jasper Johns: A Retrospective”

topic: Alive, Treats, Awake

I could smell myself awake with that coffee.

- Jesse Tyler Ferguson

topic: Coffee, Smell, Awake

He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep.

- John Keats

topic: Thinking, Indolence, Awake

You're only awake when you realise you're awake and when you're dreaming, it is just as real, whatever happens is just as real - whether you actually do die in a dream or fulfil whatever you're doing in a dream, it's, there's nobody to tell me it isn't as real as this now, because how do you know?

- John Lennon

topic: Dream, Real, Awake

His tiredness hurt so much it kept him awake.

- Jonathan Franzen

topic: Hurt, Awake, Tiredness, Hurt So Much

You're bored? That's because you keep your senses awake and your soul asleep.

- Josemaria Escriva

topic: Bored, Soul, Awake

If I kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.

- Joss Whedon

topic: Awake, You Don't Know Me

God stays awake all the time. In case we need to talk to Him about something.

- Karen Kingsbury

source: Twitter post from Feb 25, 2018

topic: Needs, Cases, Awake

I was asleep at the wheel before cancer shook me awake.

- Kris Carr

topic: Cancer, Wheels, Awake

If youre not living awake to the fact the life can change in a dime, then youre living asleep...

- Kristine Carlson

topic: Dimes, Facts, Awake

How many women here like to have sex in the morning? Now how many like to be awake when it happens?

- Marsha Warfield

topic: Morning, Sex, Awake

I've been asked repeatedly what the 'key' to acting is, and as far as I'm concerned, the main thing is to keep the audience awake.

- Maureen Stapleton

source: Maureen Stapleton (1995). “A Hell of a Life: An Autobiography”

topic: Keys, Acting, Awake

There Has Ceased to Be a Difference Between My Awake Clothes and My Asleep Clothes

- Mindy Kaling

source: Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.8, Crown/Archetype

topic: Differences, Clothes, Awake

I work really, really hard and it's challenging going through all of those time zones and having to be awake when you're supposed to be asleep. I literally fly more than a pilot.

- Miranda Kerr

topic: Challenges, Pilots, Awake, Time Zones

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

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

topic: Awake, Salutations

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

topic: Hands, World, Awake

A song will keep going round in my brain and keep me awake.

- Norah Jones

source: Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2007.

topic: Song, Brain, Awake

I love doing a lot of things I'm told I can't do. I think that's what drives me and keeps me awake every day.

- Patrick Soon-Shiong

topic: Thinking, Awake

Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.

- Patti Smith

topic: Writing, Pursuit, Awake

We are most asleep when awake.

- Paul Reps

topic: Awake

I get bored very easily. I find most movies boring. I go to movies and ask, "How do they stay awake making this?"

- Paul Schrader

topic: Bored, Boring, Awake

Anything that doesn't bore me I think is doable because it's keeping me awake.

- Paul Schrader

source: Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

topic: Thinking, Awake, Bores

Be fully awake if you want to dream

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Dream, Want, Awake

We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake

- Pema Chodron

topic: Eye, Blink, Awake, Blink Of An Eye, Awakened

Certain names always awake certain prejudices.

- Philibert Joseph Roux

topic: Prejudice, Awake

The beauty of being foreign is that it snaps you awake.

- Pico Iyer

topic: Awake

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

- Rene Barjavel

topic: Want, Awake

Your power is in your thoughts, so stay awake. In other words, remember to remember.

- Rhonda Byrne

topic: Positive, Remember, Awake, Power Of Attraction, Secret Law Of Attraction

You're awake, you're awesome. Live like it.

- Robby Novak

topic: Inspirational, Awake

Love has come to rule and transform; Stay awake, my heart, stay awake.

- Rumi

topic: Heart, My Heart, Awake

Learn how to rest while you're awake

- Sandra McCracken

source: Twitter post from Aug 10, 2014

topic: Awake

The madman is a dreamer awake

- Sigmund Freud

topic: Dreamer, Awake, Madmen

The keys are in my pocket and they rattle you awake.

- St. Vincent

topic: Keys, Pockets, Awake

I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.

- Stan Laurel

topic: Dream, Awake, I Had A Dream

I have never been awake before.

- Stephen LaBerge

source: Stephen LaBerge (2012). “Lucid Dreaming: A Concise Guide to Awakening in Your Dreams and in Your Life”, p.45, Sounds True

topic: Awake

I woke with a start. At first I assumed I'd trumped myself awake again.

- Steve Coogan

topic: Funny, Firsts, Awake

There is no place so AWAKE and ALIVE as the edge of becoming.

- Sue Monk Kidd

source: Sue Monk Kidd (2016). “The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine”, p.17, Harper Collins

topic: Alive, Becoming, Awake, Birthing

Death had to take Roosevelt sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight.

- Thomas R. Marshall

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Sleep, Fighting, Awake

Wherever I went I felt like the last person awake in a room full of sleepers

- Tim Winton

topic: Lasts, Rooms, Awake

Being afreaid proves you're alive and awake.

- Tim Winton

topic: Alive, Awake, Prove

Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you.

- Tom Robbins

topic: Half, Awake, Wells, Still Life With Woodpecker, Minimalism

Misery don't call ahead. That's why you have to stay awake - otherwise it just walks on in your door.

- Toni Morrison

topic: Doors, Misery, Awake

I was awake and this was reality, the new reality of nothing--and worse, of having to continue to exist.

- Tony Hendra

source: Tony Hendra (2004). “Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Faith”, p.88, Random House

topic: Reality, Awake

Sometimes I just... want to see it again. Want to see you awake.

- Veronica Roth

topic: Want, Sometimes, Awake, Want To See You, Grazing

Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

- Victor Hugo

source: Victor Hugo (1898). “From exile, and after the fall of the Empire”

topic: Sleep, Going To Sleep, Awake

Do you ever rub your eyes and suddenly find you're awake and not asleep, as you'd grown to suspect you were?

- Vincent Price

source: Vincent Price (1959). “I like what I know: a visual autobiography”

topic: Eye, Awake

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

- Walter Scott

topic: Mind, Desire, Awake, Awake At Night

I'm not even sure If I'm awake now.

- Will Graham

topic: Awake

A man feels impelled to do something to keep awake.

- William Mulock

source: Toronto Star, November 30, 1928.

topic: Men, Awake, Feels

Aren't memories just dreams we have when we're awake?

- Ze Frank

topic: Dream, Memories, Awake

If those we love visit us when we dream, those who torment us almost always visit us when we're still awake.

- Alyson Richman

source: Alyson Richman (2011). “The Lost Wife”, p.206, Penguin

topic: Dream, Awake, Torment

Sleep is over rated, then again so is being awake.

- Dov Davidoff

topic: Sleep, Awake

I am the woman who glows in the dark, I'll stay awake forever if I have to.

- Elena Avila

topic: Dark, Forever, Awake, Glow In The Dark

When I awake Yesterday is far away When I awake I don't recall your name, my only friend.

- Hannah Peel

source: Source: thequietus.com

topic: Far Away, Awake

The only dreams that matter are the ones you have when you're awake.

- John O'Callaghan

topic: Dream, Matter, Awake

A wise man will keep his Suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake.

- Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

topic: Wise, Men, Awake

The presence of danger has a way of making you feel fully awake.

- Tim O'Brien

topic: Way, Danger, Awake

You're awake, you're awesome. Live like it.

- Brad Montague

topic: Inspirational, You Re Awesome, Awake

Ain't nothin wrong, ain't nothing right and still I sit and lie awake all night.

- Bradley Nowell

topic: Lying, Night, Awake

Awake! Arise! And be exalted! Make your life a success!.

- Haidakhan Babaji

topic: Arise, Awake, Exalted

If you are deeply connected with yourself, with your energy, staying awake to yourself in the moment, other prisoners tend to leave you alone.

- James Fox

topic: Energy, Moments, Awake

The thing that keeps me most awake is the desire and curiosity to learn more.

- Juan Enriquez

source: "Big Think Interview With Juan Enriquez". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 9, 2009.

topic: Curiosity, Desire, Awake

Let the sky outside awake a sky inside your mind.

- Sogyal Rinpoche

topic: Sky, Mind, Awake

The more awake you are, the less there is of you here. At the very deepest level of Presence, you have disappeared and only God is.

- Leonard Jacobson

topic: Levels, Very Deep, Awake

While doing sadhana you must quieten your mind and keep awake the Purusha consciousness behind all your activities.

- Sri Aurobindo

source: Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

topic: Mind, Consciousness, Awake

If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the rarer potion mine own dreams I'll take And for truth commune with imaginings

- Fernando Pessoa

source: Fernando Pessoa, Edwin Honig, Susan M. Brown (1986). “The Poems of Fernando Pessoa”, New York : Ecco Press

topic: Dream, Sleep, Awake, Communes

To stay awake all night adds a day to your life.

- Frank Herbert

source: Frank Herbert (1984). “Children of Dune”, Berkley

topic: Night, Add, Awake

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

- Jeffrey Eugenides

topic: Sleep, Awake, Hard

If you really want to dream, be fully awake.

- Paulo Coelho

source: FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 14, 2014

topic: Dream, Want, Awake

Again, I lay awake, and I cried because of waste.

- Steven Morrissey

topic: Waste, Awake, Cried

You are asleep and have forgetten that you are dreaming. You mistakenly believe you are awake.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Dream, Believe, Awake

The power is within you. It always has been. How far are you willing to expand the horizons of your thinking and stir that power awake?

- Louise Hay

topic: Thinking, Horizon, Awake

To be a leader is to be awake and alert, to be dissatisfied at all times

- Peter Koestenbaum

topic: Leader, Awake, All Time

About what we neither know nor feel precisely while awake-whether we have a good or a bad conscience toward a certain person-our dreams instruct us fully and unambiguously.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Dream, Certain, Awake

I am satisfied, for I awake in Thy likeness.

- Alexander MacLaren

source: Alexander Maclaren (1906). “Expositions of Holy Scripture”, p.697, CCEL

topic: Awake, Satisfied

It’s not about how much you sleep. It’s what you do while you’re awake.

- Gary Vaynerchuk

source: "Why advice from business gurus is mostly meaningless" by Gary Vaynerchuk, www.businessinsider.com. May 29, 2015.

topic: Sleep, Awake

Consciousness, fully awake to itself, is the Light of God.

- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

topic: Light, Consciousness, Awake

He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.

- Colum McCann

source: Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.144, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Kind, Moments, Awake

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

- Jodi Picoult

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

topic: Needs, Awake

If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.'

- Marcus Aurelius

topic: Morning, Men, Awake, Manliness, Unwilling

We sleepwalk through our lives, because how could we live if we were always this awake?

- Terry Pratchett

topic: Awake, Our Lives, Ifs

you can live a whole life time never being awake.

- Dan Millman

topic: Peaceful Warrior, Awake, Whole Life

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

topic: Religion, Awake, Hippopotamus

I want to meet my God awake.

- Thomas Carlyle

topic: Death, Want, Awake

I read to make myself feel awake.

- George Saunders

source: Source: m.motherjones.com

topic: Awake, Feels

One thought cannot awake without awakening others.

- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

source: "Aphorisms". Book by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880-1893.

topic: Awakening, Awake

Living a simpler life has turned out to be one of the keys to being more awake and healthy.

- Mariel Hemingway

topic: Keys, Healthy, Awake

I like to see the people awake and alert.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson, Lyman Henry Butterfield, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti (1954). “22 June to 31 December, 1786”

topic: People, Awareness, Awake

I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.

- Annie Dillard

source: Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.53, Canongate Books

topic: Waking, Scales, Awake

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

- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

topic: Sleep, Sound, Awake

When I am asleep I dream what I dream when I am awake. It's a continuous dream.

- Antonio Porchia

source: "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

topic: Dream, Awake

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

- David Levithan

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

topic: Running, Lying, Awake, Beside You

If you live in Birmingham, then being awake is not necessarily a desirable state.

- Tony Wilson

topic: States, Birmingham, Awake

What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?

- Jonathan Safran Foer

source: Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Dream, Awake, Interpreting, Our Dreams

You are before being and not being, awake and dream take place in time. You have no time.

- Robert Adams

topic: Dream, Awake

eating is the sleeping of being awake.

- Joseph Gordon-Levitt

topic: Sleep, Eating, Awake

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

- Haruki Murakami

source: "What Haruki Murakami talks about". Interview with Heidi Benson, www.sfgate.com. October 26, 2008.

topic: Dream, People, Awake

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

- Barbara Kingsolver

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

topic: Writing, Night, Awake, Awake At Night

Picture God nudging you and me awake before dawn because He can hardly wait to be with us.

- Beth Moore

source: Beth Moore (2015). “Believing God”, p.216, B&H Publishing Group

topic: Waiting, Dawn, Awake

Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.

- Heraclitus

topic: World, Awake

For when is death not within our selves? And as Heracleitus says: “Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old. The former when shifted are the latter, and again the latter when shifted are the former."

- Heraclitus

source: "Hippocrates".

topic: Young, Young And Old, Awake

For those who are awake, the Cosmos is One.

- Heraclitus

topic: Cosmos, Awake

If I'm not supposed to be awake, why are you here?" I mumbled. "To be the little spoon.

- Karen Chance

source: Karen Chance (2012). “Fury's Kiss: A Midnight's Daughter Novel”, p.275, Penguin

topic: Littles, Spoons, Awake

If you are living the dream, how do you know if you are asleep or awake?

- Karl Pilkington

topic: Dream, Awake, Knows, Living The Dream

You have to be present, awake and happy now.

- Russell Simmons

topic: Awake

Awake, awake, English nobility! Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2014). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Deluxe Annotated: Suitable for Home Reading, Academic Study, and Dramatic Productions”, p.1906, BookBaby

topic: Sloth, Horror, Awake

Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.3844, BookCaps Study Guides

topic: Heart, Tempest, Awake, Dear Heart

Every morning when I awake, the greatest of joys is mine: that of being Salvador Dali.

- Salvador Dali

topic: Morning, Joy, Awake

O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

source: 1798 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', pt.7.

topic: Sleep, Awake, Let Me

Fire, fear, foes! Awake!

- J. R. R. Tolkien

topic: Fire, Awake, Foe

Remorse is memory awake.

- Emily Dickinson

source: Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.119, First Avenue Editions

topic: Memories, Awake, Remorse

You must be completely awake in the present to enjoy the tea.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Tea, Enjoy, Awake

Benny was awake again. Happened every morning.

- Eoin Colfer

source: Eoin Colfer (2012). “Benny and Omar”, p.21, The O'Brien Press

topic: Morning, Awake, Every Morning

I can’t tell anymore when I’m asleep and when I’m awake, or which is worse.

- Laurie Halse Anderson

source: Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.177, Penguin

topic: Awake, I Can

Nothing keeps me awake at night. I keep other people awake at night.

- James Mattis

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: Night, People, Awake

Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.

- Chanakya

topic: Wisdom, Awake, Wells