“We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence…”

“Life is a dream from which we wake only when we meet death.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

“One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.”

John Donne book Holy Sonnets

“A dream is the key that unlocks the mysteries of the waking world…”

Juliet Marillier (1948) New Zealand fiction writer

“And this is the sum of our mortal state,
The hopes we number,—
Feverish waking, danger, death,
And listless slumber.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist

“We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.”

Thomas Browne book Religio Medici

“We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream: it may be so the moment after death.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) American novelist and short story writer (1804 – 1879)

“Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain't this and that at all?”

Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums

“Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?”

John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic

“You clap. The Censor wakes up. We all get into trouble.”

Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…