(87 quotes found)
“Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'”
Charles M. Schulz
“It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake”
Mark Twain
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
Carl Gustav Jung
“Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.”
William James
“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
Henry David Thoreau
“I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.”
Walt Whitman
“In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.”
Carl Sandburg
“Say as little as possible while appearing to be awake.”
Will Rogers
“Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“Then awake! the heavens look bright, my dear; / 'Tis never too late for delight, my dear;/ And the best of all ways / To lengthen our days / Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear!”
Thomas More
