Awake Quotes - Page 17

• I could smell myself awake with that coffee.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Coffee, Smell

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• Tonight go to sleep as though your whole past has been dropped. Die to the past. And in the morning wake up as a new man in a new morning. Don't let the same one who went to bed get up. Let him go to sleep for good. Let the one who is ever-new and ever-fresh awake instead.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Morning, Sleep

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• 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, and everything made sense.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Dream, Sweet

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• When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in without impropriety.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Lying, Indulge In, Anxiety

  'Iolanthe' (1882) act 2

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• Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty of sense, and keep the heart awake to love and beauty.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Wise, Nature, Heart

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “Letters, Conversations and Recollections”, p.35

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

  Caryl Churchill

  Dream, Real

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

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• When I was in that danger...I felt like I was shaken awake...after everything she made me feel...I made a decision and went to sleep. Do you know what that's like - trying to go to sleep, and lose yourself in the hopes of burying the worst fears in your life?...I wasn't in love with the past. I was terrified of my own future.

  Brad Meltzer

  Fear, Sleep, Past

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• I wake up at 4:15 A.M., get some coffee, turn on the news, see what's happening, go clickety-clack on the web to see what I missed overnight. Then I go to the gym, around 5:15, and I do what appears to be a very light workout, but who cares. I'm socializing with other nice people at the gym. Then I go into work, and I'm really awake.

  Hoda Kotb

  Workout, Nice, Coffee

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• I thought cocaine was a fantastic drug. A wonder drug, like everybody else. It gave you [an] energy burst. You could stay awake for days on end, and it was just marvelous and I didn't think it was evil at all. I put it almost in the same category as marijuana, only hell of a lot better. It was a tremendous energy boost. It gave the feeling, a high, but nobody knew, well maybe a small percentage of people knew. But eventually everybody knew how evil it really was.

  George Jung

  Marijuana, Thinking, People

  Interview with PBS Frontline, www.pbs.org. 2000.

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• The price that must be paid for mastery is discipline. No one achieves lasting success without it. So from the moment you awake each day, devote yourself to the perfection of whatever you pursue. Do this and you will achieve self-mastery. Achieve self-mastery and you will have the makings of a great leader... Discipline is all about cultivating powerful habits that become part of your lifestyle.

  Robin Crow

  Powerful, Self, Discipline

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• Let the sky outside awake a sky inside your mind.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Sky, Mind

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• I could not clearly distinguish what was passing in my head; it seemed to me that I was under the influence of a horrible dream and that I had but to awake to find myself cured; at times it seemed that my entire life had been a dream, ridiculous and childish, the falseness of which had just been disclosed.

  Alfred de Musset

  Dream, Self, Ridiculous

  Alfred de Musset (2012). “The Confession of a Child of the Century”, p.45, tredition

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• But what is coffee, but a noxious berry, Born to keep used-up Londoners awake?

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Coffee, Berries, Used

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1862). “Verses and Translations”, p.57

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• Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty.... Well-being means, finally, to drop one's Ego, to give up greed, to cease chasing after preservation and the aggrandizement of the Ego, to be and to experience one's self in the act of being, not in having, preserving, coveting, using.

  Erich Fromm

  Giving Up, Mean, Self

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• The hiss of the quenched element, the breakage of the pitcher which I had flung from my hand when I had emptied it, and, above all, the splash of the shower-bath I had liberally bestowed, roused Mr Rochester at last though it was dark, I knew he was awake; because I heard him fulminating strange anathemas at finding himself lying in a pool of water. 'Is there a flood?' he cried

  Charlotte Bronte

  Lying, Dark, Hands

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.125, Penguin

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• How long the night seems to one kept awake by pain.

  Bernard-Joseph Saurin

  Pain, Night, Long

  "Blanche et Guiscard". Play by Bernard-Joseph Saurin (Act V, Scene 5), translated, September 25, 1763.

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• Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn; We shudder for a moment, then awake In the broad sunshine of the other life.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Death, Sunshine, Dawn

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.106, Wildside Press LLC

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• I've always thought sleep was a wonderful invention. Not that being awake isn't nice too, of course. But when I get up in the morning, I think, boy, only fourteen more hours and I can be back to sleep again ... And I never dream, because it distracts my mind from pure sleeping.

  Anne Tyler

  Dream, Morning, Nice

  Anne Tyler (1992). “If Morning Ever Comes”

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• Joy requires one to be awake, Adjusting the heart's ambience to bright. Some prefer the dark, as is their right, On grounds of agony, and to forsake Not only bliss, but all that's blessed by light.

  Nick Gordon

  Blessed, Heart, Dark

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• Few occasions are as joyous to small children as funerals, almost better than the big wedding blowouts that take place at night when it's hard to stay awake. A small boy will never be harshly criticized at a funeral; he is more treasured as death comes close and all his wickedness vanishes before the inescapable fact that thank God, he is healthy.

  Arthur Miller

  Children, Boys, Night

  Arthur Miller (2013). “Timebends: A Life”, p.29, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• 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

  Prayer, Lying, Fall

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

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• Remember, you can lead a fifty-seven-year-old body to motherhood, but you can't make it stay awake.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Mother, Humorous

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• It is never a good practice to continue to sleep after sunrise. We should not think of staying in bed once we are awake; it increases laziness and dullness. Those who cannot decrease the amount of sleep quickly may do it in gradual stages. Those who do regular spiritual practice do not need much sleep.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Sleep, Thinking

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• I'm all out o faith, this is how I feel. I'm cold and I am shamed lying naked on the floor. Illusions never change into something real. I'm wide awake and I can see the perfect sky is torn. You're a little late, I'm already torn.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Real, Lying, Sadness

  Song: Torn, Album: Left of the Middle

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• The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.

  Dean Rusk

  People, Evil, Usual

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