People would rather sleep their way through life than stayawake for it.

-Albee, Edward Franklin, III
Quoted in  Joseph F McCrindle (ed) Behind the Scenes (1971).

While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one; in this way, every man is two men.

-Borges,Jorge Luis
Quoted in  John Russell The Meaning of Modern  Art (1974).

O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway.

-Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
  'The Rime of the  Ancient Mariner', pt.7.

   Wider comprehensions, deeper insights to the dead belong:ö Since for Love thou wakest not, sleeper, yet awake for sake of Song!

-Ferguson, Sir Samuel
c.1864  'The Tain-Quest'.

When you're lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is taboo'd by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in, without impropriety.

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
  Lord Chancellor's nightmare song, Iolanthe, act 2.

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

-Joyce,James Augustine Aloysius
 Ulysses.

Awake my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run.

-Ken,Thomas
  Manual of Prayers for the use of the Scholars of  Winchester College.

Keeping awake for ten weeks at a stretch.

-Winner, Langdon
  When asked what is the hardest part of directing. John Player Lecture, London, Sep.