Gustave Meyrink Quotes

To be awake is to be alive.

The secret is to be awake. To be awake is everything.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

I want people to be awake. I want them to be aware.

We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

You always have to keep some lucidity.

Stay conscious and alive, day in and day out.

For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.

To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.

The sin of inadvertence, not being alert, not quite awake, is the sin of missing the moment of life-live with unremitting alertness.

The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.

Life is a state of consciousness.

What I try to capture as a writer is the feeling of being alive, of being awake.

The mind is always present. You just don't see it.

The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.

I'm always going to keep my eyes open.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake.

How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look about us as in a dream, with eyes that no longer know their function and whose gaze is turned inward.

If you are in a state of intense presence you are free of thought, yet highly alert. If your conscious attention sinks below a certain level, thought rushes in, the mental noise returns, stillness is lost, you're back in time.

Watchfulness is experiencing a sudden glimpse of something without any qualifications - just the sudden glimpse itself.

you can live a whole life time never being awake.

Wakefulness is the only saintliness there is, and sleepiness, unconsciousness, is the only sin there is; all other sins are born out of it. Cut the root, cut the very root! Don't go on pruning the leaves.

Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections.

No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen? Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer?