Awake At Night Quotes:

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Nature ch. 8 (1836).

topic: Dream, Men, Awake At Night, Innocent Life, Fruitful Life

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Good Night, Dream, Art, Dreaming At Night, Good Dream

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

- Marilyn vos Savant

topic: Morning, Night, Ideas, Inspirational Good Night, Have A Good Day

Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?" ...Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, "We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay.

- Charles M. Schulz

topic: Philosophy, Lying, Hate, Western Music, Why Me

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

So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.

- Muriel Spark

topic: Lying, Night, Silence, Awake At Night

I've never stayed awake at night over a chance I took that failed, but I've stayed awake over chances I didn't take.

- Garth Brooks

topic: Night, Risk, Chance, Awake At Night

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

- Leonardo da Vinci

topic: Inspirational, Life, Dream, Mislead Us, Painting And Poetry

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

topic: Love, Stress, Night, Awake At Night

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

- Walter Scott

topic: Mind, Desire, Awake, Awake At Night

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Love, Life, Dream, Hopes And Dreams, Life And Dreams

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

- Judy Garland

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

topic: Love, Good Night, Men, Garlands, Awake At Night

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

- Baltasar Gracian

source: Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.86, Shambhala Publications

topic: Lying, Sleep, Emotion, Worldly Wisdom, Good Night Sleep

If I've learned anything in twenty-nine years, it's that every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar. My gift - bad choice of words - is that I can look at you, him, her, them, whoever, and tell right away what is keeping them awake at night: money; feelings of insignificance; overwhelming boredom; evil children; job troubles; or perhaps death, in one of its many costumes, perched in the wings. What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.

- Douglas Coupland

topic: Jobs, Children, Night, Moral Life, Insignificance

I used to lie awake at night, willing myself to put in the hard work, the determination, the passion.

- Kevin Pietersen

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

topic: Determination, Lying, Hard Work, Awake At Night

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Inspirational, Good Morning, Marriage, Husband Love, Husband To Be

I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

- Laura Marling

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

topic: Country, Book, Night, Awake At Night, Shortness Of Life

I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

- Wendell Berry

source: Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

topic: Prayer, Lying, Fall, Windowpane, Cold Days

We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.

- Maj Sjowall

source: "The queen of crime". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2009.

topic: Lying, Night, Pay, Money Problem, Awake At Night

When it’s too good, you do it over again. Too good is too easy. If it’s too easy you have to worry. If you’re not lying awake at night worrying about it, the reader isn’t going to, either. I always know that when I get a good night’s sleep, the next day I’m not going to get any work done. Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It’s not all inspirational.

- James M. Cain

topic: Good Night, Lying, Writing, Awake At Night

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

- Rene Descartes

topic: Dream, Sleep, Imagine, Interpretation Of Dreams, Accustomed

When you are more awake at nights, they'll toss and turn, they'll think more, they get frustrated. And when that starts to happen, you really don't sleep even more because you're making your body tense and your mind is getting more and more active.

- Shelby Harris

topic: Sleep, Thinking, Night, Awake At Night

Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision.

- Jeanette Winterson

source: Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.7, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Lying, Night, Long, Awake At Night

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

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

topic: Lying, Block, Night, Awake At Night

Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.

- Charles Stanley

topic: Mom, Baby, Teenager, Just A Mom, Inspiring Motherhood

The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he loves.

- Mignon McLaughlin

source: "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

topic: Hate, Lying, Night, Awake At Night

You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn.

- T. H. White

source: T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.161, Penguin

topic: Inspirational, Teacher, Lying, Devastated, Trembling

Insofar as I think about postmodernism at all, and it doesn't exactly keep me awake at nights, I think of it as something that happens to one, not a style one affects. We're postmoderns because we're not modernists. The modernist writers—Pound, Eliot, Joyce, Stevens, Yeats, Woolf, Williams—spoke with a kind of vatic authority: they were really the last of the Romantics, for whom authorship itself was like being a solitary prophet in the wasteland.

- Jonathan Raban

topic: Night, Thinking, Style, Wasteland, Yeats

We're a lukewarm people for all our feast days and hard work. Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision. Our children frighten us in their intimacy, but we make sure they grow up like us. Lukewarm like us. On a night like this, hands and faces hot, we can believe that tomorrow will show us angels in jars and that the well-known woods will suddenly reveal another path.

- Jeanette Winterson

topic: Growing Up, Children, Lying, Awake At Night

I loved writing 'Two Brothers' more than anything else I have written. It's the first book I've written that I've always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.

- Ben Elton

topic: Brother, Book, Writing, Awake At Night

I am not a believer, not an atheist, not an agnostic. I am still awake at night, asking how? I am more content with the question than I would be with an answer.

- Roger Ebert

topic: Atheist, Night, Would Be, Awake At Night

You are going to have hostile crowds and the fans are going to find out where you are staying and keep you awake at night. They are going to use everything possible.

- Cobi Jones

topic: Night, Never Quit, Fans, Awake At Night

Regret is what you should fear the most. If something is going to keep you awake at night, let it be the fear of not following your dream.

- Chris Guillebeau

source: Chris Guillebeau (2014). “The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life”, p.204, Harmony

topic: Dream, Regret, Night, Awake At Night

My second husband and I were going through a bitter divorce, and I didn't have the money for a fancy-pants attorney. I didn't know how to fight, so I'd lie awake at night and think of ways to kill him. But I knew I'd get caught, so I decided to put it in a book and get paid for it! I always think it's odd that a whole career came out of that homicidal impulse.

- Sue Grafton

topic: Husband, Lying, Book, Awake At Night, Homicidal

The thing that keeps me awake at night is a nexus between terrorism and massive destruction...the possibility that a terrorist organization could either acquire a ready-made weapon or fabricate something improvised that would have a catastrophic effect for us.

- Michele Flournoy

topic: Night, Organization, Weapons, Nexus, Fabricate

In reality, the main thing that keeps me awake at night is probably the destruction of the planet that's what gets me pretty upset.

- Rachel Weisz

topic: Reality, Night, Upset, Awake At Night

My biggest fear, I think falling from a great height. If I want to keep myself awake at night I imagine I'm on the top of the North or South Tower in 9/11, wondering whether I'm going to be burnt to death or I'm going to jump. And I think I would burn to death. And yet I'm impressed by the fact that hundreds didn't.

- Ian Mcewan

source: Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

topic: Fall, Night, Thinking, Biggest Fear, Awake At Night

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.

- Lyn Nofziger

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Lying, Night, Thinking, Awake At Night, Night Vision

The things that keep me awake at night are things like textures and instrumentation and plotting out what things are going to do and what the sounds are that I'm trying to capture.

- Ariel Pink

source: Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

topic: Night, Trying, Sound, Instrumentation, Awake At Night

There's nothing I'd say that keeps me awake at night, but I think that when you're working with a group of people that are so beyond talented that, every day, you wake up going, "All right, I gotta fight to stay at the same level as these people," that's what makes it fun.

- Brie Larson

source: "Brie Larson Interview UNITED STATES OF TARA and SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. March 23, 2010.

topic: Fun, Fighting, Night, Awake At Night

One thing that keeps me awake at night: I am a mother and, I have to confess with great delight, a grandmother of five girls, which gives me great hope for the future - girl power! Can I say that without alienating all of the men?

- Queen Noor of Jordan

source: "Her Majesty Queen Noor: Yogi & Devoted Warrior for Peace". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Girl, Mother, Night, Awake At Night, Great Hope

What keeps me awake at night is just, Am I making the best use of the time that remains for me, to both be as good an example as I can in my own daily life, and as compelling as possible a voice for the ways in which we can all work together to tackle these issues.

- Queen Noor of Jordan

source: "Her Majesty Queen Noor: Yogi & Devoted Warrior for Peace". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Night, Voice, Issues, Awake At Night

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

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

topic: Beautiful, Morning, Writing, Awake At Night

Thinking about the heartbreaking number of young children around the world who think they are unwanted and are uncared for can easily keep you awake at night.

- Stephanie March

source: "‘¿Por qué me Quieres?’ Reflections on the 2010 World of Children Awards" by Stephanie March, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2010.

topic: Children, Heart, Night, Awake At Night

I have no fear of God, and yet fear keeps me awake at night,fear of the devil. And if I believe in the devil, I must believe in God. And if evil is abhorrent to me, I must be a saint. Henry, save me from beatification, from the horrors of static perfection. Precipitate me into the inferno.

- Anais Nin

topic: Believe, Night, Evil, Awake At Night