Famous quotes containing the word awake:
“They will tell me I talk about things I have never experienced but only dreamedto which I might reply: it is a lovely thing to dream such dreams! And besides, our dreams are much more our experiences than we believewe must relearn about dreams! If I have dreamed thousands of times about flyingwould you not believe that when I am awake I also possess feelings and needs giving me an edge on most peopleand...”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
Not one is dissatisfiednot one is demented with the mania of owning things,
Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of
years ago,
Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth.”
—Walt Whitman (18191892)
“... when I awake in the middle of the night, since I knew not where I was, I did not even know at first who I was; I only had in the first simplicity the feeling of existing as it must quiver in an animal.... I spent one second above the centuries of civilization, and the confused glimpse of the gas lamps, then of the shirts with turned-down collars, recomposed, little by little, the original lines of my self.”
—Marcel Proust (18711922)