Awake At Night Quotes

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then – to learn.

Thinking about the heartbreaking number of young children around the world who think they are unwanted and are uncared for can easily keep you awake at night.

Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, “Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?” …Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, “We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay.

Success – keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

One thing that keeps me awake at night: I am a mother and, I have to confess with great delight, a grandmother of five girls, which gives me great hope for the future – girl power! Can I say that without alienating all of the men?

So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

My biggest fear, I think falling from a great height. If I want to keep myself awake at night I imagine I’m on the top of the North or South Tower in 9/11, wondering whether I’m going to be burnt to death or I’m going to jump. And I think I would burn to death. And yet I’m impressed by the fact that hundreds didn’t.

Sometimes I lie awake at night and think about that little red-haired girl… I don’t ever want to forget her face, but if I don’t forget her face, I’ll go crazy… How can I remember the face I can’t forget? Suddenly I’m writing country western music!

There’s nothing I’d say that keeps me awake at night, but I think that when you’re working with a group of people that are so beyond talented that, every day, you wake up going, “All right, I gotta fight to stay at the same level as these people,” that’s what makes it fun.

Many of us are slaves to our minds. Our own mind is our worst enemy. We try to focus, and our mind wanders off. We try to keep stress at bay, but anxiety keeps us awake at night. We try to be good to the people we love, but then we forget them and put ourselves first.

You are going to have hostile crowds and the fans are going to find out where you are staying and keep you awake at night. They are going to use everything possible.

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.

I loved writing ‘Two Brothers’ more than anything else I have written. It’s the first book I’ve written that I’ve always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

When you are more awake at nights, they’ll toss and turn, they’ll think more, they get frustrated. And when that starts to happen, you really don’t sleep even more because you’re making your body tense and your mind is getting more and more active.