I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will ever know yourself.
Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.
The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.
A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit.
Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep
...if these dreams are shadows of God reflected into knowledge, why God’s shadows are dreams? Only because you can wake up from a dream and all these shadows always wake up in an infinite echo...
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.
We all dream we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we...
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the...
However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
I think a year really makes a lot of difference, especially when you're awake for most of it. I didn't sleep a lot last year.
Murphy's cowboy laws: On any other day, you can't stay awake long enough to finish watching the news, but the night before a CAS shoot you will always not be able to sleep even if you were hit...
Murphy's volunteer bushfire brigade laws: Never stand when you can sit, never sit when you can lie down, never stay awake when you can sleep.
Murphy's war laws: Never stand when you can sit, never sit when you can lie down, never stay awake when you can sleep.
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.