Quotes with awake

  • Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.
  • 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.
  • Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.

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  • Henry David Thoreau Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Thomas E. Lawrence All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men; they act out their dreams to make them reality.
    Thomas E. Lawrence
    British archaeologist, military officer, diplomat, and writer (1888 - 1935)
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  • William James Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Victor Hugo Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • George Gurdjieff A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • Plutarch All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • William Blake Awake! awake O sleeper of the land of shadows, wake! expand!
    Jerusalem Chap: I
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Helen Rowland Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • William James Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Babe Ruth Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • James Joyce History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Leo Tolstoy Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Ernest Hemingway I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Annie Dillard I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz In my own experience as a C.E.O., I would find myself laying awake at 3 A.M. asking questions about my business, and there weren't management books out there that could help me.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Baltasar Gracian It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Bill Bryson It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavours look interesting and lively; that was merely an unintended side effect. I don't wish to denigrate a sport that is enjoyed by millions, some of them awake and facing the right way, but it is an odd game.
    In a Sunburned Country (US) / Down Under (UK) (2000)
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Alexander Pope 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
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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