“A farmer once told me one of the greatest luxuries of his life was to wake up early only to go back to sleep again.”

“If you still want to keep dreaming, then go back to sleep. But if you want to succeed then wake up and act.”

“The years that are gone seem like dreams -if one might go on sleeping and dreaming- but to wake up and find -oh! well! perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all ones life.”

“Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams.”

“I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't”

“Commander! Sir! Wake up!"
Jack surfaced from sleep, wondering who the commander was and wishing he'd respond so he could go back to sleep - until he remembered that he was the commander.”

“I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don’t want to die.”

“A boy spends his time finding a girl to sleep with. A real man spends his time looking for the one worth waking up to.”

“Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa, you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.”

“"Look what nice surprise life is / that someday you wake up and it's over / and it will never come back again"
(from Ci Credi, 1993)”