Best morning & awake Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship; you are ready to develop any kind of idea. That's when I come up with the best and worst ideas. That is the privilege of being a writer - that you can stay in bed for an hour in the morning and it's work time.”

Mind Kind Ideas Hours Morning Minutes Worst Ready Bed Privilege Come Up Golden Awake Censorship Drifting

Author:Jo Nesbo

“I unplug the phone and close the door and just stick with it. I don't ever go out for lunch and I don't take vacations. I like to be awake when no one else is: either just before dawn in the morning or late, late at night. Silence helps.”

Writing Helping Night Silence Morning Doors Late Sticks Phones Dawn Awake Lunch Vacation

Author:Mona Simpson

“Part of my function as a writer is to dream awake. And that usually happens. If I sit down to write in the morning, in the beginning of that writing session and the ending of that session, I'm aware that I'm writing. I'm aware of my surroundings. It's like shallow sleep on both ends, when you go to bed and when you wake up. But in the middle, the world is gone and I'm able to see better.”

Ifs World Writing Ends Dream Happens Able Sleep Morning Gone Middle Bed Function Wake Up Awake Shallow Surroundings Session

Author:Stephen King

“When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness. In this hour divinely fresh and still, the fair face of every flower salutes me with a silent joy. . . . All the cares, perplexities, and griefs of existence, all the burdens of life slip from my shoulders and leave me with the heart of a little child that asks nothing beyond the present moment of innocent bliss.”

“Awake thee, my Lady-Love! Wake thee, and rise! The sun through the bower peeps Into thine eyes.”

Eye Morning Sun Thee Awake Lady Love

Book:Sylvia; or, The May queen, a lyrical drama

Source: Sylvia; or, The May queen, a lyrical drama

“There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ... Time, self-pity, apathy, bitterness, and exhaustion can take the Christmas out of the child, but you cannot take the child out of Christmas.”

World Children Self Morning This World Christmas Pity Awake Bitterness Apathy Exhaustion Self Pity Christmas Morning

Book:I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression

Source: I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression

“Oh any sentimental person can cry at night, but when you begin to cry in the morning - to lie awake and cry in the morning-.”

Persons Lying Night Morning Cry Awake Sentimental Sentimentality

Book:The Sick-a-Bed Lady: And Other Tales

Source: The Sick-a-Bed Lady: And Other Tales

“How many women here like to have sex in the morning? Now how many like to be awake when it happens?”

Happens Sex Morning Awake

Author:Marsha Warfield

“As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock in the morning, worrying.”

Mean Lying Morning Worry Four Lucky Clock Novelists Awake Don't Lie I Don't Lie

Author:David Nicholls

“If Montaigne is a man in the prime of life sitting in his study on a warm morning and putting down the sum of his experience in his rich, sinewy prose, then Pascal is that same man lying awake in the small hours of the night when death seems very close and every thought is heightened by the apprehension that it may be his last.”

Ifs Men May Seems Lasts Lying Night Hours Morning Study Rich Sitting Warm Awake Prose Prime Apprehension Pascal Prime Of Life

Book:The Condemned Playground

Source: The Condemned Playground

“I wake up in the morning and I lie in bed, and it's the time I call "the theater of morning." All these thoughts run around in my head, between my ears when I'm waking up. It's not a dream state, but it's not completely awake either. So all these metaphors run around and then I pick one and I get out of bed and I do it. I'm very lucky.”

States Dream Running Lying Morning Lucky Bed Picks Ears Wake Up Theater Metaphor Awake Waking

Author:Ray Bradbury

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”

“I worry about ridiculous things, you know, how does a guy who drives a snowplough get to work in the morning. ... That can keep me awake for days.”

Knows Doe Humor Funny Guy Morning Worry Know How Ridiculous Awake Ridiculous Things

Author:Billy Connolly

“Once I'm awake, I'm awake, which helps when you have to run in the mornings.”

Helping Running Morning Awake

Author:Kai Ryssdal

“The shadows in the early morning don't tell much. The shadows rest at that time. So it's useless to gaze very early in the day. Around six in the morning the shadows wake up, and they are best around five in the afternoon. Then they are fully awake.”

Morning Five Six Shadow Wake Up Useless Awake Afternoon Early Morning

Book:Second Ring of Power

Source: Second Ring of Power

“The reason I didn't like cocaine is it made me do stupid things, have stupid conversations, and stay awake until 11 o'clock in the morning unable to think, read, sleep or speak.”

Thinking Made Reason Speak Sleep Morning Stupid Conversation Clock Awake Cocaine Stupid Things

Author:Moby

“The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.”

Men Life Is Lying Energy Morning Bed Awake Sunshine Good Morning

Book:Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales

Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales

“I would roll out of bed and immediately start working, and keep working until it was so late at night that I couldn't stay awake anymore. Then I'd go to sleep and wake up the next morning and do the same thing all over again. I did that every day for three years.”

Years Night Three Next Sleep Morning Bed Late Wake Up Awake Three Years Going To Sleep

Author:Michael Azerrad

“I have spent my whole life scared, frightened of things that could happen, might happen, might not happen, 50 years I spent like that. Finding myself awake at three in the morning. But you know what? Ever since my diagnosis, I sleep just fine.”

Knows Years Whole Might Happens Three Sleep Morning Fine Findings Scared Whole Life Awake Frightened Insightful Diagnosis Finding Myself

Author:Walter White

“When I finally decide that I'm ready to get out of bed, it could be the sunlight, it could be the fact that I'm awake, and, OK, first of all, I wake up in the morning because I have to go to the bathroom.”

Firsts Facts Morning Ready Bed Wake Up Awake Sunlight Bathroom

Author:Saul Williams

“Every morning when I awake, the greatest of joys is mine: that of being Salvador Dali.”

Joy Morning Mines Awake Every Morning

Author:Salvador Dali

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