Awake Quotes

You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside.

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.

Unfortunately these days, there is a hell of a lot that keeps me awake.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

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

I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.

I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.

When I had my first boy it all started and that male energy seemed to keep me awake but since my daughter, who's incredibly serene, I can't seem to stop sleeping because she's asleep all the time. It's a pattern.

A song will keep going round in my brain and keep me awake.

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

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.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

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

Man is firmly convinced that he is awake; in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself.

My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.

I still lie awake at night thinking about everything that could have been, that wasn't done to stop 9/11. To the 9/11 families, I said, you deserve better from your entire government. All of us.

Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

I am awake a lot of nights.

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!

Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

And I might add the confidence with which distracted persons do oftentimes, when they are awake, think, they see black fiends in places, where there is no black object in sight without them.

When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

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.

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

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

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