Wakefulness Quotes

The saint is the man who acts as if he had died and returned to life; having already ceased to be "himself" in the earthly sense, he has no intention whatever of returning to that dream, but maintains himself in a kind of wakefulness, which the world with its narrowness and impurities cannot understand. (Frithjof Schuon)
I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But it doesn't last forever. Wakefulness always comes to take me back. View quote
Haruki Murakami
The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound, and seen in every thing. View quote
Frederick Douglass
Wherever literature consoles sorrow or assuages pain; wherever it brings gladness to eyes which fail with wakefulness and tears, and ache for the dark house and the long sleep,-there is exhibited in its noblest form the immortal influence of Athens. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
We all have slumbering realms of sensibility which can be coaxed into wakefulness by books. View quote
Robertson Davies
Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness. View quote
Gustav Meyrink
A little sleep and then a little wakefulness. Then a slipping to some soothing place in between. View quote
Hubert Selby Jr.
We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing...a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use. View quote
Plotinus
Prolong not the past Invite not the future Do not alter your innate wakefulness Fear not appearances There in nothing more than this. View quote
Ram Dass
He stirred again, halfway between sleep and wakefulness, and he was not alone. View quote
Clifford D. Simak