“Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”
Variant: Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.
Source: Dune
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Frank Herbert 158
American writer 1920–1986Related quotes

“Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.”

“You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.”

“We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening”

The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), X : Religion, the Mythology of the Beyond and the Apocatastasis
“Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis

7 February 1945.
Disputed, The Testament of Adolf Hitler (1945)
Context: The white races did, of course, give some things to the natives, and they were the worst gifts that they could possibly have made, those plagues of our own modern world-materialism, fanaticism, alcoholism and syphilis. For the rest, since these peoples possessed qualities of their own which were superior to anything we could offer them, they have remained essentially unchanged. Where imposition by force was attempted, the results were even more disastrous, and common sense, realizing the futility of such measures, should preclude any recourse to their introduction. One solitary success must be conceded to the colonizers: everywhere they have succeeded in arousing hatred, a hatred that urges these peoples, awakened from their slumbers by us, to rise and drive us out. Indeed, it looks almost as though they had awakened solely and simply for that purpose! Can anyone assert that colonization has increased the number of Christians in the world? Where are those conversions en masse which mark the success of Islam? Here and there one finds isolated islets of Christians, Christians in name, that is, rather than by conviction; and that is the sum total of the successes of this magnificent Christian religion, the guardian of supreme Truth! Taking everything into consideration, Europe's policy of colonization has ended in a complete failure.

“If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it?”
"The Sign and Emptiness," p. 9
The Sign and Its Children (2000), Sequence: “The Supreme Sign”