“What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?”
Source: The Second Sex
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French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, po… 1908–1986Related quotes
“The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.”
Anne Rice book The Vampire Lestat
Source: The Vampire Lestat
Robert Silverberg book Thorns
Source: Thorns (1967), Chapter 21, “And Southward Aye We Fled” (p. 106)
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
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.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
“He read with a charming full voice, and when everyone was applauding, "how much", he asked, "would you have applauded if you had heard the original?"”
Quam cum suavissima et maxima voce legisset, admirantibus omnibus "quanto" inquit "magis miraremini, si audissetis ipsum!"
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
De Oratorio, book 3, chapter 56.
Cicero was telling the story of Æschines' return to Rhodes, at which he was requested to deliver Demosthenes' defence of Ctesiphon.
“Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”
Frank Herbert book Dune
Variant: Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.
Source: Dune