Awake Quotes - Page 6

• Saffy could tell by the feel of the darkness that Caddy was awake. She said, "Caddy, how far back can you remember?" "Oh," said Caddy, "ages. I can remember when I could only lie flat. On my back. I can remember how pleased I was when I learned to roll over.

  Hilary McKay

  Lying, Darkness, Age

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

  E. B. White

  Half, Periods

  E. B. White (2013). “Letters of E. B. White, Revised Edition”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• I think that every living person, every person who is awake to the functioning principles within his reality has a moment where he stops blaming the problems in the world on group thinking, on humanity and authority, and starts to face himself. I hate this more than anything. This is the hardest principle within christian spirituality for me to deal with. The problem is not out there, the problem is the needy beast of a thing living in my chest.

  Donald Miller

  Christian, Hate, Reality

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

  Tim O'Brien

  Way, Danger, Feels

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• I remembered my little brother, Allyn, had appeared so innocent and angelic when he slept--similar to Kerrick. It must be a survival tactic. If Allyn hadn't looked so sweet, we would have killed him while he slept. He had been pure evil when he was awake--similar to Kerrick.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Sweet, Brother, Evil

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• The dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Golden, Eternity

  Jack Kerouac (2016). “Old Angel Midnight”, p.6, City Lights Publishers

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• What does it mean that I am in this endless universe, thinking that I'm a man sitting under the stars on the terrace of the earth, but actually empty and awake throughout the emptiness and awakedness of everything? It means that I'm empty and awake, that I know I'm empty and awake, and that there's no difference between me and anything else.

  Jack Kerouac

  Stars, Mean, Men

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.145, Penguin

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• What does your sorrow do while you sleep? -It’s awake and waiting. And when it loses patience, it wakes me up.

  Ivo Andric

  Sleep, Waiting, Sorrow

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• We dream — it is good we are dreaming — It would hurt us — were we awake — But since it is playing — kill us, And we are playing — shriek — What harm? Men die — externally — It is a truth — of Blood — But we — are dying in Drama — And Drama — is never dead — Cautious — We jar each other — And either — open the eyes — Lest the Phantasm — prove the Mistake — And the livid Surprise Cool us to Shafts of Granite — With just an Age — and Name — And perhaps a phrase in Egyptian — It's prudenter — to dream —

  Emily Dickinson

  Dream, Hurt, Drama

  Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.408, Harvard University Press

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• My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like measured thought.

  Markus Zusak

  Sleep, Eye, Silence

  Markus Zusak (2011). “Underdogs”, p.116, Scholastic Inc.

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• I hate being awake at three in the morning. It is the godforsaken heart of darkness when the body runs slow, and the brain runs slower, and all you want to do is sleep. But I had promises to keep, and miles to go before I could sleep. Or at least a couple of miracles to perform before I could go to bed.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Running, Morning, Couple

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2001). “Narcissus in Chains: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.412, Penguin

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• I've got a gig," Jim said. I sat up in my bed, wide-awake. A gig was good- I needed the money. "Half." "Third." "Half." "Thirty-five percent." Jim's voice hardened. "Half." The phone went silent as my former Guild partner mulled it over. "Okay, forty." I hung up.(...) The phone rang. I let it ring twice before I picked it up. "Fine." Jim's voice had a hint of a snarl in it. "Half.

  Ilona Andrews

  Voice, Phones, Half

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• When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep. When I was supposed to sleep, I was silent. When a pleasure offered itself to me, I avoided it.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Sleep, Silent, Pleasure

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• Sometimes I lie awake at night thinking about all the dumb things I do every day... If I live to be eighty and I do ten dumb things each day... That would be about two hundred and ninety thousand dumb things... When you add up all the dumb things you do, it's best to use round figures.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Lying, Night, Thinking

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• Then Aragorn stooped and looked in her face, and it was indeed white as a lily, cold as frost, and hard as graven stone. But he bent and kissed her on the brow, and called her softly, saying: 'Éowyn Éomund's daughter, awake! For your enemy has passed away!' - Aragorn & Éowyn

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Daughter, White, Enemy

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.587, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You know what it’s like when you’re trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake?

  Haruki Murakami

  Fall, Trying, Wide Awake

  Haruki Murakami (1994). “The Elephant Vanishes”, Vintage

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• Imagine staying awake all night not because you're worried about the future but because it's FUN

  David Nicholls

  Fun, Night, Imagine

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• [H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Years, Bye, Dawn

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• Even if I’d been wide awake, I knew Dimitri would’ve taken my suitcase anyway. That’s how he was, a lost remnant of chivalry in the modern world, ever-ready to help others.

  Richelle Mead

  Taken, Helping Others, World

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.24, Penguin

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• She just threatened to throw the next man who shoots at you out the window. Megan is awake. She offered to help. God, Trent, what is it with you and women?

  Kim Harrison

  Men, Next, Helping

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• Everyone understands the pain that accompanies death, but genuine pain doesn't live in the spirit, nor in the air, nor in our lives, nor on these terraces of billowing smoke. The genuine pain that keeps everything awake is a tiny, infinite burn on the innocent eyes of other systems.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Pain, Eye, Air

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• Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write, just write, just write. In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. Say yes, stay alive, be awake. Just write. Just write. Just write.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Notebook, Writing, Alive

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.131, Shambhala Publications

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

  Mindy Kaling

  Differences, Clothes

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

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

  Karen Kingsbury

  Needs, Cases

  Twitter post from Feb 25, 2018

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• Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wrath, Together, Dawn

  "Fictional character: Theoden". "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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