Quotation Explorer - 'Awake'

Creativity is a delicious dream from which I never want to awake. - K. Ford K.
The little dove, in her nest, in my kitchen window, still awake, all scared, waiting for the storm to pass and we humans are sleeping peacefully, believing that our concrete houses will save us... - Nauman Khan
Before a marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you`ve said; after marriage, he`ll fall asleep before you finish saying it. - Helen Rowland
A millionaires' mindset focus moves from posessions to feelings, once they become conscious and awake. - Tony Dovale
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. - Victor Hugo
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night." - Charles M. Schulz
Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you. - Charles M. Schulz
You aren’t actually a someone, a person, who is conscious. You are the awake space of awareness itself, within which all the thought up entities in your world appear. Out of all these imagined entities, you have simply made the mistake of thinking that one of them is you. - Enza Vita
Awake to the spiritual realities of life. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Honoring your feelings awakens your soul. Feelings keep you awake. And it is from that awake place, that sound, that you build your life. - Suzette Hinton
Giving up on a purposeful journey of life is as deadly as death! When you pursue with tenacity, and strive through the adversities and the vicissitudes of life with a mind of fortitude and get to the end of the journey, you shall surely see life. Awake! Arise and go! Never ever give up!!! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Our lives are a divine expression no matter how messy and weird they may be. How much more meaningful can it get? The source is experiencing itself in form in a conscious, awake way. - Enza Vita
I only wake to fall asleepAnd sleep, to awake without end. - Konstantin Batyushkov
Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake. - Henry David Thoreau
It's not a 9-5 job. It's an every moment you're awake job because you actually enjoy the work that you're doing. - Jeffrey Kalmikoff
You tried to change didn’t you? Closed your mouth more, tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake... You can’t make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that. - Warsan Shire
Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Why me?", then a voice answers "Nothing personal, your name just happened to come up. - Charles M. Schulz
In my sleep I have my nightmares, awake I have my thoughts, I am not sure which is worse. - Carl R. White
then suddenly one day he awake to find that time had gone; the house completed, the imortelle tree cut down, his mother dead. - Earl Lovelace
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
All I can do is read a book to stay awake, and it rips my life away, but it's a great escape. - Blind Melon
A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night. - Marilyn Vos Savant
The foolish man lies awake all night Thinking of his many problems; When the morning comes he is worn out And his trouble is just as it was.
An idea is like a spark to creativity, which turns to a wild conflagration of thoughts, burning every ignorance. When the fire burns, the creative power is awake, and comes out to join the ideas in your head to bring out the hidden valuables the world never knew - Michael Bassey Johnson
If you sleep on the train, you will miss your station; if you sleep at the station, you will miss your train! You can control your fate only when you are awake! - Mehmet Murat ildan
I know that the problem isn't the dream per se. It was the way I felt afterward, once awake. - Emily Giffin
Carcharadon carcharias. Six thousandpounds of muscle powering a hoopof butcher's knives. The only animalthat ate its weaker siblings in the womb.Immune from cancer. Constantly awake. - Mark Haddon
Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise! - Alexander Pope
Awake all living souls and shine thy light. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first awake. - Roman Payne
With each day, each hour and every moment of life, no matter how small, I realize that I have found a way of bringing me straight to the one person that I would give everything for… to you. I am living in a dream, in a dream I don’t want to awake from. - Sawm Rad
Warrior of the night must be awake to write the sacred words. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Must, bid the Morn awake! Sad Winter now declines, Each bird doth choose a mate; This day's Saint Valentine's. For that good bishop's sake Get up and let us see What beauty it shall be That Fortune us assigns. - Michael Drayton
Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish, misbegotten. Not all of us dream awake. But those of us who do have no choice. - Patricia A. McKillip
wounds make you awake in the memories but tears makes tough and dry in real life. - Kishore Bansal
We are always imagining something, It is practically impossible to be awake without imagining something. Then why not imagine something at all times that will inspire the powers within us to do greater and greater things? - Christian D. Larson
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward. - Baltasar Gracian
A true dreamer dreams when he is awake. - Debasish Mridha
ARISE, AWAKE AND STOP NOT TILL THE GOAL IS REACHED - Swami Vivekananda
You will never realize how precious a baby is until she keeps you awake through the whole night. - Debasish Mridha
The best thing about being an author is the unspoken approval to dream while awake. - Alex G. Zarate
In the night, I am kept awake by the endless chatter of my inner self. I hear it speak softly of old hurts and fondly of past loves, while its demands and anxieties resound throughout me in multitudes.I could be calm and composed all day long, but the moment it is dark, my mind riots. - Beau Taplin
Dreams come true when you live life awake. - Richie Norton
A worshipper perceives that he is near to God because he is awake all night worshipping God. But after worship, your prayers are for health, long life, wealth, and for the damsels and slaves of the Paradise. Ponder! Did you ever pray to God, ‘O’ God, I desire from Thee nothing but Thee’? - Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
Never lose sleep over someone who is not worth staying awake for. - Habeeb Akande
Awake my soul, the glory of the Lord is upon me. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I had a dream I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep. - Stan Laurel
Awake, arise, or be forever fall'n. - John Milton
It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive. - Pema Chodron
There is no work-life balance. We have one life. What's most important is that you be awake for it. - Janice Marturano
Awake my soul and my spirit. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Other men are unaware of what they do when they are awake just as they are forgetful of what they do when they are asleep. - Heraclitus
At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, All the secrets that slept deep within me came awake, Everything was transformed and enchanted, everything made sense. - Hermann Hesse
You never know. Maybe when we’re dreaming…we’re more lucid than when we are awake. - Katherine Angela Yeboah
Legend says that when you can't sleep at night it's because you're awake in someone else's dream - Unknown Legend
The best dreams are the ones you are awake for. - Dixie Waters
Awake my soul.Awake my spirit.Awake my desires.Awake my light.Awake my mind.Awake my hope.Awake my faith.Awake my love. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Great people never sleep because their dreams keep them awake and striving. - Terrance Robinson- Artist Educator Scholar Entrepreneur
Let us be awake and live every moment of our precious, loving, and spontaneous life. - Debasish Mridha
We are half awake and semi conscious. - Debasish Mridha
I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's next door to impossible not to imagine that they're all waxworks, but probably they're thinking just the same about you. - George Orwell
Entangled cobwebs of my mind keep me awake at night! Need to get back to sm serious writing again! - Deeba Salim Irfan
Again, I lay awake, and I cried because of waste. - Morrissey
At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion. - Robert Louis Stevenson
Some thoughts are too angry to sleep. They lie awake all night and become obsessions. - Marty Rubin
When I am awake, I sleep, but when I dream I come to life. - Anna Jae
Awake your soul to happy memories. - Lailah Gifty Akita
By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result? - C.S. Lewis
The writer dreams awake. The killer nightmares awake. (L’écrivain rêve éveillé. - Le tueur cauchemarde éveillé) - Charles de Leusse
It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake. - Mark Twain
Horror make me awake and when I don't think about it but I read it it make me sleepy! - Deyth Banger
challenges are everywhere. Awake! challenge and defeat the challenges that challenge you in a challenging way and be not be defeated by the challenges that challenge you in a challenging way - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Yet the stupid believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, that one herdsman how dense! Confucius and you are both dreaming! And when I say you are dreaming, I am dreaming, too. Words like these will be labeled the Supreme Swindle. - Zhuangzi
It's you I've been thinking, awake or sleeping,I'm always dreamingMe and you sweetly embracing :) - Bradley B. Dalina
While the whole world was asleep, the caterpillar was awake, working towards becoming a butterfly. - Matshona Dhliwayo
I’m awake and I can’t sleep. The more I’m awake, the more I see, and the harder to sleep. - Donna Lynn Hope
We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake. - Diogenes Laërtius
What you are seeing and hearing right now is nothing but a dream. You are dreaming right now in this moment. You are dreaming with the brain awake. - Don Miguel Ruiz
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. - James Joyce
True dreams are those which keep you awake at night and drive you nuts during the day. - Debasish Mridha
Dream while you are awake; act while you are asleep. - Debasish Mridha
Reading a good book keeps me awake all night. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The nearest thing we have to a defence against [the gods] (but there is no real defence) is to be very wide awake and sober and hard at work, to hear no music, never to look at earth or sky, and (above all) to love no one. - C.S. Lewis
When I awake thinking of dreams I slept on, I often wonder, if the dreams ever wake up thinking of me? - Anthony Liccione
We learn more when we hate than when we love, because hate is eternally awake, but love is everlastingly asleep. - Mehmet Murat ildan
The bottom line remains the same: you’re either awake or you’re not.One day, there it is. Nothing. No more enemies, no more battles. - Jed McKenna
Buddhism is more a philosophy for living rather than a religion or dogma - it's about being awake, free from illusions and fear, so that compassion and loving kindness permeates all of our relationships. - Charlotte Kasl
Do not just exist, be fully awake. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I wish I could fall asleep. But with a good book in my hands, I stay awake to finish reading. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Good night - may you fall asleep in the arms of a dream, so beautiful, you'll cry when you awake. - Michael Faudet
I think when we sleep, the world belongs to everyone still awake. Which means a shitload of the world belongs to Craig. ~Lio - Hannah Moskowitz
Motherhood is a constant battle of wanting to go to bed early so you can catch up on sleep and wanting to stay awake so you can enjoy some peace and sanity! - Tanya Masse
so convincing were those dreams of being awake that he woke from them in a state of complete exhaustion, and had to go straight back to sleep again. - Joseph Heller
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awake, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then? - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Within each of us is a light, awake, encoded in the fibers of our existence. Divine ecstasy is the totality of this marvelous creation experienced in the hearts of humanity - Tony Samara
A young lady who faints may awake chivalrous sentiments in gentleman; a young lady who weeps engenders only a strong desire to be elsewhere. - Judith Brocklehurst
Before your awake, all you do is seeWhen your awake, all you do is feel. - Nikki Rowe
Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day. - Anonymous
Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest. - Ann Radcliffe
When people sleep, others stay awake to effect changes in the world. Every other person wakes up in the morning to a totally different world - Gossy Ukanwoke
You are about to awake when you dream that you are dreaming. - Ian Fleming
The only dreams that matter are the ones you have when you're awake. - John O'Callaghan
The moment I close my eyes, I see you and sleep vanishes. I’m awake the entire night, revisiting ourmemories together. The night seems to stretch on forever. - Santonu Kumar Dhar
Each day begins a new journey of life, for if we awake, there is a reason. - Bethanie Armstrong
Be awake in every moment but be calm and live in serenity in the midst of chaos. - Debasish Mridha
I feel like I'm sleeping when I'm awake, and really living when I'm asleep. - Michael J. White
Those who commit suicide, pensive, lonely, philosophers, are awake in life, which is a serious crime. In life everybody must be asleep. - Bangambiki Habyarimana
To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in. - Henry Miller
The light that puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. - Henry David Thoreau
To inspire others, you must first inspire yourself. Only true passion can awake passion in others - Daniel Delgado F.
Man with right thinking is awake and can see everything; man with wrong thinking is asleep and can see nothing! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The people need poetry that will be their own secretTo keep them awake forever,And bathe them in the bright-haired wave of its breathing. - Osip Mandelstam
At night I lay awake, her likeness casting dark shadows across my soul and senses, and my stomach throbbing away. I imagined her arms around me, lulling me into a phantom bliss, so frustrating, so unreal. - Stephen Mosley
I shall be up before you are awake; I shall be afield before you are up; and I shall have breakfasted before you are afield. In short, I shall astonish you all. - Thomas Hardy
Personally I like going places where I don't speak the language, don't know anybody, don't know my way around and don't have any delusions that I'm in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home. - Michael Mewshaw
To eat, drink, arise, awake etc. are all religion (dharma) of the body. One has not come into one’s own Self Religion (atma dharma) even for a second. Had he done so, he would never ever leave God. - Dada Bhagwan
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. - Henry David Thoreau
Love is the strength through which a heart starts speaking,Vertiginous windstorm that opens the door to madness.An inspiration that keeps us awake whilst sleeping,Magical breeze that blows away the sadness. - Nino Varsimashvili
Life is most transfixing when you are awake to diversity, not only of ethnicity, ability, gender, belief, and sexuality but also of age and experience. The worst mistake anyone can make is to perceive anyone else as lesser. - Andrew Solomon
The wide awake man seizes opportunities or makes them, and thus those who are widest awake usually come to the front. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way - not at all or in an interesting manner. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Raise, Awake and take stand. Draw the path for others. Be a Leader. - Vivek Modi
Now I'm awake and you're here. Now I'm dreaming and you're here. Now I have nothing but days. Never nights. - pleasefindthis
It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses. - Charles de Lint
What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence. - Claude Monet
When reality is better than your dreams, stay awake. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Let us awake numb souls.. To cry, to speak and to call. - Bela Anĝelo
MY MOONI'll always wonder what time it is there; if you're dreaming, or awake. My moon is your sun; my darkness, your light. I'm in the future, you'd jokingly say.And I know where you are, because I'm watching you from the past. - Coco J. Ginger
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 Babington Macaulay
I was lost in the moments I decided to keep. To be awake in a dreamless sleep. And in that place between dream and sleep, I planted some more things I would like to keep. - Hubert Martin
That night I didn’t say anything. I just watched you leave and in the end, I just stayed sleeping awake. Somewhere between a sweet dream and a beautiful nightmare, hoping one day you’d return to rid me of the demons you left behind. - Robert M. Drake
Accept, Acknowledge and Awake. - Aditya Ajmera
Contemplating this suffering which is unbearable to us, and is unbearable to others, too, can produce awake mind, which arises from the compassion that wishes to free all living beings from suffering. - Dalai Lama XIV
Anyone could see that this woman is living a nightmare. Except that she goes through her daily life wide awake, knowing that she could make a mistake at any moment. - Núria Añó
Dreaming is good—especially if you dream when you are awake. Remember dreams will remain a dream if you don’t act on them. - Debasish Mridha
We've become a nation of wolves, ruled by sheep.Owned by swine, overfed, and put to sleep.While the media elite declare what to think,I'll be wide awake, on the edge, and on the brink. - Otep Shamaya
Three things to help keep your brain cells awake and alert ... drink plenty of clean water, get plenty of deep sleep, and let your imagination soar to places it's never dared venture. - Toni Sorenson
Which is the true nightmare, the horrific dream that you have in your sleep or the dissatisfied reality that awaits you when you awake? - Justin Alcala
Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving. - Frederick Buechner
Do we ever have to abandon all hope? Is it not perhaps a good thing that by refusing to give in to the evidence, the dreams that lie half awake in us all may persist? - Théodore Monod
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? - Ernest Hemingway
In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake. - Henry David Thoreau
Our hearts and imaginations need to dance and play if we are to live awake - Jaeda DeWalt
Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law. - Gautama Buddha
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning - Carl Sandburg
The only way to ensure democracy functions correctly is to question its governance constantly. Fail to do so and you may awake to find yourself living in a police state. - Stewart Stafford
To be awake is to be alive. - Henry David Thoreau
If the pocket goes dry but the mind is fertile, awake and plant something noble in the mind and you shall surely reap something noble in the end, no matter what! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The paradoxical situation with a vast number of people today is that they are half asleep when awake, and half awake when asleep, or when they want to sleep. - Erich Fromm
Live the dream awake. - Tia Walker
If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders. - Andrew Harvey
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