Quotes about wake
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“Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?”

Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) American poet

Source: The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

“Waking up to you is like… presents on Christmas morning."
His mouth curved. "For your convenience, I'm already unwrapped. Batteries not required.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Entwined with You

Christmas

“Shadow is ever besieged, for that is its nature. Whilst darkness devours, and light steals. And so one sees shadow ever retreat to hidden places, only to return in the wake of the war between dark and light.”

Steven Erikson book House of Chains

Source: House of Chains

War, Nature, Light

“Let the future sleep for now, as it deserves. If you wake it too early, you get a groggy present.”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

Sleep, Future

“When I sleep, I dream of you, and when I wake, I long to hold you in my arms. If anything, our time apart has only made me more certain that I want to spend my nights by your side, and my days with your heart.”

Nicholas Sparks book Nights in Rodanthe

Paul Flanner, Chapter 16, p. 188
Source: 2000s, Nights in Rodanthe (2002)

Dreams, Sleep, Time, Heart

“I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Depressing

“The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours”

Eric Berne book Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships

Source: Games People Play

Problem

“One day you’ll wake up and find that the pain’s still there but it doesn’t hurt quite so much.”

Sarra Manning (1950) British writer

Pain, Hurt

“Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!”

Ruth Ozeki book A Tale for the Time Being

Source: A Tale for the Time Being

Life

“My first thoughts after waking are – and always have been – of you.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Wedding

Source: The Wedding

“Yes," I said "You were saved by a girl. Horrible, isn't it?"
He slid out and looked down at my bare legs. "Not just a girl, but a half-naked one. Now that's hot. If I'm still unconscious, don't wake me, okay?”

Kelley Armstrong (1968) Canadian writer

Source: The Calling

Girl

“I'm sorry you don't get it, Mom. Sometimes I don't get why I do the things I do. I just know I wake up every morning and wish I was dead.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

Moms, Dead

“What are you, Rose Hathaway? Are you real? You're a dream within a dream. I'm afraid touching you will make me wake up. You'll disappear.”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Source: Spirit Bound

Dreams

“Hell was not a pit of fire and brimstone. Hell was waking up alone, the sheets wet with your tears and your seed, knowing the woman you had dreamed of would never come back to you.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Seduce Me at Sunrise

Dreams, Hell, Tear

“You have to distinguish between things that seemed odd when they were new but are now quite familiar, such as Ibsen and Wagner, and things that seemed crazy when they were new and seem crazy now, like 'Finnegans Wake' and Picasso.”

Philip Larkin (1922–1985) English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian

“You suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left in its wake.”

Michael J. Fox (1961) Canadian-American actor

Source: Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist

Suffering

“Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.”

Cormac McCarthy book Cities of the Plain

Source: Cities of the Plain (1998)

Life, World

“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”

Kate Chopin book The Awakening

The Awakening (1899)
Source: The Awakening, and Selected Stories
Context: 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.

Life, Suffering

“I'm sitting at the dinner table, wearing my future mother-in-law's underwear. It's like some twisted dream that you wake up and thinkL Crikey Moses! Thank God that didn't really happen!”

Sophie Kinsella book I've Got Your Number

Source: I've Got Your Number

God, Law, Dreams, Future

“You know what’s a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in order to get to beauty, and even then, when you get there, you still have to wake her up.
— Tiny Cooper”

David Levithan book Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Love, Beauty, Sleep

“If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, "Wake up and write the book!”

Kerry Greenwood (1954) Australian crime writer

Books

“We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Source: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
Context: I grow old … I grow old...
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.

Girl, Sea

“If your eyes weren't open, you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

Dreams

“He would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to him for what it was: a pitfall of happiness that he despised and desired at the same time, but from which it was impossible to escape.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

Love, Happiness, Memory, Time

“When I wake up, my pillow’s cold and damp with tears. But tears for what? I have no idea.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Idea, Tear

“We wake up one day and find we have lost our dreams in order to protect our days.”

Kent Nerburn (1946) Author

Dreams

“George goes to sleep at a bank from ten to four each day, except Saturdays, when they wake him up and put him outside at two.”

Jerome K. Jerome book Three Men in a Boat

Source: Three Men in a Boat

Sleep

“Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

God, Dreams, Feeling

“My money's on the lady," he drawled. "You don't tame a vixen, you just travel in her wake.”

Lora Leigh (1965) American writer

Source: Hidden Agendas

Money, Travel

“The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Universe, Moving On

“She had wailed loudly enough to wake the dead and make them call the cops.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

Dead

“What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?”

Jonathan Safran Foer (1977) Novelist

Dreams

“Your powers drain you too much,' [Percy] noted.
[Nico] nodded sleepily. 'With great power… comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

“You don't even realize you're living in a before until you wake up one day and find yourself in an after.”

Robin Wasserman (1978) American writer of speculative fiction for young people

Source: The Book of Blood and Shadow

“Ani felt a stirring, a hope, a winged thing waking up in her chest and brushing her heart with it's feathers.”

Shannon Hale The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

Hope, Heart

“We all live in a kind of continuous dream,” I told him. “When we wake, it is because something, some event, some pinprick even, disturbs the edges of what we’ve taken as reality.”

Jeff VanderMeer book Annihilation

Source: Annihilation

Dreams, Reality

“There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

Source: The Passion

Love, Sense, Chance

“If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake.”

Patrick Rothfuss (1973) American fantasy writer

Dreams

“It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better… while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Variant: There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.

People, World

“I sometimes wake in the early morning & listen to the soft breathing of my child & I think to myself, this is one thing I will never regret & I carry that quiet with me all day long.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Thinking

“That’s the nice thing about dreams, the way you wake up before you fall.”

Marya Hornbacher book Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

Dreams, Way

“I always wake when you do, Sassenach; I sleep ill without ye by my side.”

Diana Gabaldon book The Fiery Cross

Source: The Fiery Cross

Sleep

“Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Source: Dracula

Dreams, Sleep, Suffering, Heart

“I still cry on waking. I'm not sure why. I feel nothing. Nothing I can name, anyway. It's like breathing - something that happens over which I have no control. (6)”

Mary E. Pearson book The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Feeling, Cry

“Beat him until there’s no skin left on his back. If he passes out, wake him and beat him again. (Father)
Love you, too, Father. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Love

“On the off chance that you have children, don't clean up at all. As children, my brother and sister and I loved waking up early and playing cocktail party with the leftover debris”

Amy Sedaris (1961) American comedian

Love, Children, Sister, Chance

“What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

World, Fear, Dreams, Night

“Wake up, Caitlin, Mr. Lensing had said. But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm's length or farther away. I understood those mermaids. I didn't care if they sang to me. All I wanted was to block out all the human voices as they called me name again and again, pulling me upward into light, to drown.”

Sarah Dessen book Dreamland

Source: Dreamland (2000)

Life, Sleep, Light

“Fang! Come Back!" I started pulling his hair. Shaking his head and shoulders. Hard. "Wake up! Snap out of it! You stupid jerk! I am going to kill you if you die on me!”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Fang

Stupidity, Jerk

“I keep warning and warning, and nobody seems willing to listen. One of these days someone is going to wake up to the fact that I'm serious when I say never to attack my sister without looking over your shoulder for me. (Rhoan)”

Keri Arthur Australian writer

Sister

“If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

Books, Reading

“I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's got to have a goal.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Guilty Pleasures

Source: Guilty Pleasures

Fear, Girl

“Love's an illusion. It's a dream you wake up from with an enormous hangover and net credit debt. I'd rather have cash.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

Love, Dreams

“You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you’re like an immigrant to your own world. You don’t have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.”

Shaun Tan (1974) Australian illustrator, writer, and animated filmmaker

World, Cars, Travel, Drawing

“Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
Fled is that music: — Do I wake or sleep?”

John Keats Ode to a Nightingale

Stanza 8
Poems (1820), Ode to a Nightingale

Dreams, Music, Sleep

“I don't need a baby growing inside me for nine months. If I'm going to feel nauseous and achy when I wake up, I want to achieve that state the old-fashioned way: getting good and drunk the night before.”

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

Way, Feeling, Fashion, Baby

“What if I travel so far away in my dreams that I can't get back in time to wake up?”

Ruth Ozeki book A Tale for the Time Being

Source: A Tale for the Time Being

Dreams, Travel, Time

“For me, it's better to wake up with a paintbrush than a knife in my hand.
-Peeta”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“Men all do about the same thing when they wake up.”

John Steinbeck book Cannery Row

Source: Cannery Row

Men

“The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.”

Stephen King book Rose Madder

Source: Rose Madder

World, Dreams, Sleep

“I keep thinking about blood. I dream about it. Wake up thinking about it. Pretty soon I'll be writing morbid emo poetry about it.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Simon to Clary, pg. 217
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

Dreams, Thinking

“I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But it doesn’t last forever. Wakefulness always comes to take me back.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

World, Dreams, Thinking

“Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Men, Dreams

“When you graduate from college, they tell you to follow your dreams. Does anyone say you have to wake up first?”

Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist

Dreams

“I want someone to pinch me so I can feel something, anything. I'm sick of this numbness, of feeling so alone and outside of everything, but I know it's too dangerous to wake up."

—Ruth Mendenberg”

Carol Matas book After the War

Source: After the War

Feeling

“And then some days you wake up and everything's perfect.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

Perfection

“Wake up, Astrid. Your psychotic criminal is playing with knives. (Sasha)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

“We have a talent for disguising greed under the cloak of freedom. As for past acts of depravity, we prefer to ignore those. Progress, after all, means to look ever forward, and whatever we have trampled in our wake is best forgotten.”

Steven Erikson book Midnight Tides

Source: Midnight Tides

Freedom, Past

“But you’re human, aren’t you? (Kat)
I’m human, except when I first wake up in the morning. Even I don’t want to be around myself then. (Kish)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Devil May Cry

“Imagine a world that seemed so much bigger than you. Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

World, Imagination

“How was it possible to wake up every day and be recognizable to another when so often one was barely recognizable to oneself?”

Nicole Krauss book Man Walks Into a Room

Source: Man Walks Into a Room

“He looked different in sleep, beautiful but cold as moonlight. I found myself wishing he would wake so that I might watch the life return.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

Life, Beauty, Sleep

“Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

Dreams

“I thought I'd stumbled on Sleeping Beauty and her ugly sister,' said another voice, 'waiting for the kiss of true love to wake them from their slumbers. Forgive me if I didn't oblige.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Kings of Clonmel

Love, Beauty, Forgiveness, Kiss

“God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.”

William Nicholson movie Shadowlands

Source: Shadowlands

God, World, Suffering, Selfishness

“I just want to sleep with a clear conscience and wake up with the ability to look at myself in the mirror. I also want my life to be my own. Even if it's a shitty goddamn life, it's still mine.”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

Life, Sleep

“Do not wake me from this slumber, but be assured that just as I have wept much, I have also wandered many roads with my thoughts.”

Mark Z. Danielewski book House of Leaves

Source: House of Leaves

“Meet me in the courtyard in half an hour, then,” said Will. “I’ll wake Cyril. And be prepared to swoon at my finery.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“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…

“I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

Life, Dreams, Imagination

“ll I can think about, every day, every waking minute since they drew Prim's name at the reaping, is how afraid I am.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Thinking

“Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were.
It hasn’t happened this morning, either.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

Way, Thinking, Housing, Night

“I canna look at ye asleep without wanting to wake ye, Sassenach.” His hand cupped my breast, gently now. “I suppose I find myself lonely without ye.”

Diana Gabaldon book A Breath of Snow and Ashes

Source: A Breath of Snow and Ashes

“Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.”

Raymond Carver book Cathedral

Source: Cathedral

Dreams

“I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.”

Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist

Books, Reading, Help

“I wanted to wake you straightaway, but I knew I had to wait several hours to ensure you were safely recovered."
"What! How long has it been?"
"Five minutes. I got bored.”

Jonathan Stroud book The Golem's Eye

Source: The Golem's Eye

Waiting

“When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

“When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Source: Crónica de una muerte anunciada

“Nothing more exhilarating… than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.”

Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne book The Scarlet Letter

Source: The Scarlet Letter

Men, Books, Dreams, Sleep

“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.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

Girl, Boy, Sleep, Time

“So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?”

Harriet Beecher Stowe book Uncle Tom's Cabin

Ch 13 The Quaker Settlement
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)

Women, Beauty, Girl

“What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.”

Theodore Roethke The Waking

The Waking (1953), The Waking
Source: The Collected Poems
Context: This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.

Sleep, Learning

“Perserverence is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

Success

“Magnus: All dreams end when you wake.”

Cassandra Clare book Lord of Shadows

Source: Lord of Shadows

Dreams

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

Annie Dillard book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Death, Beauty

“Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale story that speaks to you, that pops into your head during your daily commute, that wakes you up in the morning.”

Jennifer Weiner (1970) American writer

Heart

“If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!”

Lois Lowry book The Giver

Source: The Giver

“Is this really true? If we take an average day in the life of the average man we seem to see very little evidence of concern with the sciences and the arts. The average man gets up, goes to work, eats his meals, reads the newspapers, watches television, goes to the cinema, goes to bed, sleeps, wakes up, starts all over again. Unless we happen to be professional scientists, laboratory experiments and formulae have ceased to have any meaning for most of us; unless we happen to be poets or painters or musicians—or teachers of literature, painting, and music—the arts seem to us to be only the concern of schoolchildren. And yet people have said, and people still say, that the great glories of our civilisation are the scientists and artists. Ancient Greece is remembered because of mathematicians like Euclid and Pythagoras, because of poets like Homer and dramatists like Sophocles. In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep the memory of our age alive.”

Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) English writer

Non-Fiction, English Literature: A Survey for Students (1958, revised 1974)

Life, People, Age, Art

“I think it's something that dawns on you with the most ghastly, inexorable sense. I didn't suddenly wake up in my pram one day and say 'Yippee, I —', you know. But I think it just dawns on you, you know, slowly, that people are interested in one, and slowly you get the idea that you have a certain duty and responsibility.”

Charles, Prince of Wales (1948) son of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

"The Prince of Wales: Full text of replies in radio debut", The Times, 3 March 1969, p. 3.
Asked when he had first realised that he was heir to the throne, in a Radio interview with Jack di Manio broadcast on 1 March 1969. This was the first time the Prince had appeared on radio.
1960s

People, Idea, Thinking, Sense

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