Awake Quotes

The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.

The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.

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

Sometimes living is easy and sometimes you lie awake at night and ask your tired heart please survive one more day.

And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales awake; For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take.

Once you know who you really are, being is enough. You feel neither superior to anyone nor inferior to anyone and you have no need for approval because you’ve awakened to your own infinite worth.

The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.

Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

Beauty awakens the soul to act.