Top 180 Awake Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Awake Quotes from famous people such as Nicholas D’Agosto, Denise Austin, Emmanuelle Beart, Daniel Woodrell, Gustave Meyrink, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

You know that thing when you're not asleep but you're n

You know that thing when you’re not asleep but you’re not awake, and you can’t move your body? I had that kind of nightmare, and I felt like all my teeth were crumbling in my mouth. Now I have this fear of all my teeth being knocked out of my mouth somehow!
Nicholas D’Agosto
People are awake about 16 hours a day, so to devote 30 minutes to keeping your weight down, keeping your body healthy, is not a lot of time.
Denise Austin
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.
Emmanuelle Beart
I rise near dawn, make a strong cup of coffee, wander to my desk and come fully awake by reading something written the day before.
Daniel Woodrell
The secret is to be awake. To be awake is everything.
Gustave Meyrink
I’ve got anxiety and I don’t sleep so I’ve been trying to balance this insomnia where I stay awake for three or four days and you don’t want to really leave the house and stuff and you’ve got to go out and do a gig.
Gerry Cinnamon
As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.
Jerzy Kosinski
I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don’t know.
Pele
Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father’s palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.
Thomas Traherne
Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true.
Lorenz Hart
He would use amphetamines to stay awake because he would have late night maneuvers that would go way into the early morning hours and he was given pills to stay up for the long hours.
Priscilla Presley
I like to keep mobile. It keeps my mind awake.
Isabel Lucas
I find when I’m more awake, I tend to think more of the structure and movement of a tune, abrupt transitions, etc.; things becoming more composed.
Aaron Funk
You want to try to keep your sleep and meal patterns attached to the time zone that you’re in. It’s important so you don’t feel disoriented. If we take a red-eye and land in Singapore at 8 A.M., we’re not going to bed. Force yourself to stay awake, have breakfast, power through the day.
Harley Pasternak
I feel like everything comes into your life for a reason. With ‘Awake,’ I got to do a drama, and with ‘Anger Management,’ that’s my comedy.
Daniela Bobadilla
I’m nearsighted, in part, because I would read past my bedtime in the dark. I didn’t want my mom to see that I was still awake.
Jamila Woods
When you master the art of being fully awake to this moment, you bestow a precious gift on your soul – the experience of love. Being present is the art of the soul.
Debbie Ford
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.
Salvador Dali
Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.
Tamra Davis
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
Leonardo da Vinci
I am awake a lot of nights.
Roger Goodell
I’m trying to spend less time with the phone when the kids are awake in general. I need to get better about that. It’s a perennial New Year’s resolution.
Jake Tapper
I would say practical progressive, which means that the Republican party or any political party has got to recognize the problems of a growing and complex industrial civilization. And I don’t think the Republican party is really wide awake to that.
Alf Landon
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.
George Saunders
As a kid I’d lie awake at night and convince myself that a meteor was about to hit the Earth. It’s my fatalistic streak, which I’ve inherited from my mum. I firmly believe something cataclysmic is going to happen in my lifetime and I have to be prepared to run for my life when the time comes.
Ellie Goulding
I conduct all my nighttime activities under the assumption that my wife is awake, that she never falls asleep.
Sayed Kashua
The reason I know I’m different to other people is I’m awake in the night, like all mythical creatures.
Gemma Collins
When you have kids, you can choose to make them like you, or become like them, and if you’ve got something that’s going to change every six days or six minutes, you can decide to be as awake and alive and learning as they are.
Jez Butterworth
In the very early years of our marriage I took seriously ill and I had to be hospitalised in London. Leaving everything aside, my Jaan was by my side, staying awake at times while I slept secure in the knowledge that I have strong hands clasping my hand, praying silently for my recovery.
Saira Banu
One of those quiet types who logs a lot of time in the bedlam of her head, I sometimes need to be startled awake to the fact that the outside world still exists.
Amy Gerstler
I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas

I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion.
John Lydon
Unfortunately these days, there is a hell of a lot that keeps me awake.
Leon Panetta
I love working. I love it! It makes me feel awake and alive and appreciative, as does my family, but in a different way. If I was told I couldn’t do it, I think I would wither and die.
Toni Collette
There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
Erma Bombeck
When my son was born, I was busy with the shoot of the film. So sometimes I would come in the wee hours and he would be sleeping and when he is awake, I am gone for work.
Vishnu Vishal
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.
Gustave Meyrink
I don’t know about you, but I lie awake nights worrying about Canadian uranium. I know these people. I grew up there. You have no idea what they’re capable of doing. If Sidney Crosby hadn’t scored that goal to win the Olympic gold medal, there’s no telling what might have ensued.
Charles Krauthammer
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.
James Daly
From 1994 to 1997, I did nothing. I slept and slept and slept. If I was awake, I had to deal with things, I had to do things. In order to avoid that, I would just stay in bed.
Jonathan Knight
Each day, you can awake and focus on small, easy goals you can accomplish in the short term – goals that, over time, will lead you to your long-term goal.
Karen Salmansohn
I remember I played Birmingham and I’d been awake for about a week and I was walking about like a raving lunatic.
Gerry Cinnamon
The cool thing about Kyle Killen, he writes really defined characters. I was a big fan of ‘Awake’ and also ‘Lone Star.’ I just think that he’s a really, really special writer, and complex and deep, and a really smart dude.
Jaime Ray Newman
It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.
Abu Bakr
I’m not going to lie: I’m awful at mornings. Once I’m awake, it still takes me half an hour to actually get out of bed.
Jacob Anderson
When it comes to the New Year, I make it a point to catch my mum and dad awake before the clock strikes 12. Then, I celebrate the night with friends.
Amy Jackson
All of the military services – land, sea, and air – spend a great deal of time awake. This is a direct result of the high tempo of operations we conduct while forward deployed well outside our national borders.
James G. Stavridis
I would lay awake nights and cry a lot thinking, is my dad gonna come home? Is he gonna go to jail again? Is he going to get killed?
Victoria Gotti
The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
Henry David Thoreau
You have to be awake at 6 a.m., when everyone else is asleep.
Matthew Ashford
I can get a call at 2 A.M., and the person on the other end is like: ‘Sorry, did I wake you?’ and I’m like: ‘No, I’m wide awake.’
Estelle
I live a super-healthy lifestyle not because it’s sensible or that I’m contrite, but because I need to keep my focus on the music I’m making. To do that, I need to be wide awake.
Johnny Marr
It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true.
Roger Babson
But it’s fun to be something, have that, and you don’t have to be real. It’s like, comedians. They go on and they’re doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.
Parker Posey
To be awake is to be alive.
Henry David Thoreau
I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.
Stan Laurel
I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people’s attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night. I want to stir the pulse, yes, but also to stir the heart. I hope ‘The Woods’ does that.
Harlan Coben
The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.
Dean Rusk
I’m happy every day. You know, that moment when you first wake up in the morning, and you’re just finishing your dream, like you’re a dog chasing a post truck – and then you realize, ‘Oh no, I’m a human, and I’m awake, and it’s Trump’s America!
Ann Coulter
That generation of Germans, along with volunteers from Denmark, Holland, even England and the Free India division and so on, we Europeans were alert and awake to the danger of Bolshevism.
Ernst Zundel