Quotes about wake
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“Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.”
Source: Gravity's Rainbow
Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
“Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.”
Source: A Lion Among Men
Source: To Tame a Highland Warrior
Source: The Hunger Games
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“We will all wake up semi-angels,
If we wake at all.”
Source: The Theater and Its Double
Source: Until I Find You
Variant: You see, I tired of constant fear, so I made a decision. Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.
Source: Gregor the Overlander
“When the fire goes out, you'll start feeling the cold. You'll wake up whether you want to or not.”
Source: After the Quake
Source: The Kite Runner
Source: No Country for Old Men (2005)
Context: You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday dont count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it's made out of. Nothin else. You might think you could run away and change your name and I dont know what all. Start over. And then one mornin you wake up and look at the ceilin and guess who's layin there?
“Each time I wake, I think, At last, this is over, but it isn't.”
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008), p. 194
Context: I enter a nightmare from which I wake repeatedly only to find a greater terror awaiting me. All the things I dread most, all the things I dread for others manifest in such vivid detail I can’t help but believe they're real. Each time I wake, I think, At last, this is over, but it isn't. It's only the beginning of a new chapter of torture. How many ways do I watch Prim die? Relive my father's last moments? Feel my own body ripped apart? This is the nature of the tracker jacker venom, so carefully created to target the place where fear lives in your brain.
Variant: While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
Source: Eating Animals
Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Source: The Dogs of Babel
“The ambitions are wake up, breathe, keep breathing.”
Source: Blood Sugar
Source: Magic Mourns
Source: Night Pleasures
Source: The Best of Me
“Don't screech like that. You'll wake the dead." - Jace - The Mortal Instruments - City Of Bones”
Variant: Don't screech like that. You'll wake the dead.
Source: City of Bones
“A dream is the key that unlocks the mysteries of the waking world…”
Source: Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants
“Once upon a time, Sleeping Beauty decided to take a nap from which she would never wake up.”
Source: You Know Where to Find Me
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie
Source: Phantom
Source: Exclusively Yours
Source: The Blood of Olympus
“Be careful what you wear to bed, because you never know where you might wake up.”
Source: Disney at Dawn
Source: Prologue to Mr. Addison's Cato (1713), Line 1.
Source: Seven Tears Into the Sea
“Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!”
Source: I Capture the Castle
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude
“If you wake up feeling no pain, you know you're dead. (Russian expression)”
Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Variant: I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story
Source: The Butterfly as Companion: Meditations on the First Three Chapters of the Chuang-Tzu
Context: How do I know that enjoying life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death we are not like people who got lost in early childhood and do not know the way home? Lady Li was the child of a border guard in Ai. When first captured by the state of Jin, she wept so much her clothes were soaked. But after she entered the palace, shared the king's bed, and dined on the finest meats, she regretted her tears. How do I know that the dead do not regret their previous longing for life? One who dreams of drinking wine may in the morning weep; one who dreams weeping may in the morning go out to hunt. During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream. And yet fools think they are awake, presuming to know that they are rulers or herdsmen. How dense! You and Confucius are both dreaming, and I who say you are a dream am also a dream. Such is my tale. It will probably be called preposterous, but after ten thousand generations there may be a great sage who will be able to explain it, a trivial interval equivalent to the passage from morning to night.
Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
Source: Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
Source: What Dreams May Come
Variant: There is a classic moment in ‘The Sun Also Rises’ when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he can say in response is, “Gradually and then suddenly.” When someone asks how I lost my mind, that’s all I can say too.
Source: Prozac Nation
The Fantastic Imagination (1893)
Source: A Dish of Orts
Context: A fairytale, a sonata, a gathering storm, a limitless night, seizes you and sweeps you away: do you begin at once to wrestle with it and ask whence its power over you, whither it is carrying you? The law of each is in the mind of its composer; that law makes one man feel this way, another man feel that way. To one the sonata is a world of odour and beauty, to another of soothing only and sweetness. To one, the cloudy rendezvous is a wild dance, with a terror at its heart; to another, a majestic march of heavenly hosts, with Truth in their centre pointing their course, but as yet restraining her voice. The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended.
I will go farther. The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is — not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself. The best Nature does for us is to work in us such moods in which thoughts of high import arise. Does any aspect of Nature wake but one thought? Does she ever suggest only one definite thing? Does she make any two men in the same place at the same moment think the same thing? Is she therefore a failure, because she is not definite? Is it nothing that she rouses the something deeper than the understanding — the power that underlies thoughts? Does she not set feeling, and so thinking at work? Would it be better that she did this after one fashion and not after many fashions? Nature is mood-engendering, thought-provoking: such ought the sonata, such ought the fairytale to be.
Jace to Clary, pg. 162
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
Source: Night Pleasures
Source: The Alphabet of Grace (1970)
“There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.”
Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?