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Waking Up Quotes

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Glen Cook
“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

Mindy Kaling
“There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.”
Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Tennessee Williams
“Every time you come in yelling that God damn "Rise and Shine!" "Rise and Shine!" I say to myself, "How lucky dead people are!”
Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

Jeanette Winterson
“Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness that is clean again. A second that is you, without memory or experience, the animal warm and waking into a brand new world. There is the sun dissolving the dark, and light as clear as music, filling the room where you sleep and the other rooms behind your eyes.”
Jeanette Winterson

Christopher Isherwood
“Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into itself until it has recognized I, and therefrom deduced I am, I am now. Here comes next, and is at least negatively reassuring; because here, this morning, is where it has expected to find itself: what’s called at home.”
Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man

Jonathan Stroud
“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, The Golem's Eye

Tove Jansson
“The hemulen woke up slowly and recognised himself and wished he had been someone he didn't know.”
Tove Jansson, Moominvalley in November

Ian McEwan
“If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died, the dream was over, you woke up. That's what people meant when they talked about going to heaven. It was like waking up.”
Ian McEwan, The Daydreamer

“We awaken by asking the right questions. We awaken when we see knowledge being spread that goes against our own personal experiences. We awaken when we see popular opinion being wrong but accepted as being right, and what is right being pushed as being wrong. We awaken by seeking answers in corners that are not popular. And we awaken by turning on the light inside when everything outside feels dark.”
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

John Steinbeck
“Men all do about the same thing when they wake up.”
John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

Fulton J. Sheen
“There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, 'Good morning, God,' and the other is to say, 'Good God, morning'!”
Archbishop Fulton Sheen

Zachary Karabashliev
“Обичам да я гледам, когато се събужда. Започваш да разбираш, че си истински влюбен, когато искаш да се събуждаш до някого по-силно, отколкото да заспивате заедно.”
Zahary Karabashliev, 18% Сиво

Shannon Celebi
“It’s not like I planned it. I never woke up from some rosy dream and said, “Okay, world, today I’m gonna spaz.”
Shannon Celebi, After Spring Comes

Adi Alsaid
“Waking up to a smell is a lot more satisfying than waking up to a noise. Instead of barging in uninvited and yanking you out into reality, smells enter your dreams with a silent knock and a polite "Excuse me?”
Adi Alsaid

Tahereh Mafi
“I love the sight of his naked body.
especially in these quiet, vulnerable moments. These brackets of time stapled between dreams and reality are my favorite. There's a sweetness in this hesitant consciousness - a careful, gentle return of form of function, I've found I love these minutes most for the delicate way in which they unfold. It's tender.
Slow motion.
Time tying its shoes.”
Tahereh Mafi, Restore Me

Jay Woodman
“There isn’t a good side and a bad side of you or of anybody, so there’s no need to be at war with yourself or anyone or anything at all.
All we are is a bunch of dozy people in the process of waking up.
All we really need to do is try gently to be open to continuing that process.
It’s no good getting worked up about stuff � it’s better to relax and laugh at our mistakes, then figure out how to learn from them and move on.”
Jay Woodman

Iain Banks
“Bright morning comes; the bloody-fingered dawn with zealous light sets seas of air ablaze and bends to earth another false beginning. My eyes open like cornflowers, stick, crusted with their own stale dew, then take that light.”
Iain Banks, A Song of Stone

Alice Hoffman
“Before she realized he was next to her, he had placed his hands over hers on the countertop, then hooped his fingers through hers. Gretel looked up at him, so startled she might as well have been shot.
'I just wanted to wake you up', he said.
Which is exactly what he did. One look at him and her heart was racing. One look, and whatever had been before was all over.”
Alice Hoffman, Local Girls

Stendhal
“Un des moments les plus pénibles de sa vie était celui où, chaque matin, en s'éveillant, il s'apprenait son malheur.”
Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“You have read some books,
I am sure

Many of which, like a rainbow,
hide their pot of gold, around the end

But my good colors,
uncontrollably spill everywhere:

‘Waking up,
is dreaming,

for those
who love beginning now”
S.B. Joon, Not Knot Naught

“The dream was floating off satisfactorily on an inner sea.”
Christopher Harman

“Oh, got no reason, got not shame
Got no family I can blame
Just don't let me disappear
I'mma tell you everything”
Ryan Tedder

“DRUGS
Seeking for a state of forgetfulness
Absence from the REALITY
Trying to Embrace the SHAME
Though it helps for the MOMENT;
Twisting our MIND
Dragging us down in the END
Those Clueless Conversation
Hoplesss Promises
Wake up !”
Lungh Gangmei

Steven Magee
“The police are consistent. A corrupt entity for a corrupt government. It is nice to see people are waking up to their corruption.”
Steven Magee

Genevieve Cogman
“Irene gazed out of the window, trying to come to terms with the fact that it was morning and she needed to wake up.”
Genevieve Cogman, The Lost Plot

Sri Aurobindo
“Alarmed by the sorrow dragging at her feet
And conscious of the high things not yet won,
Ever she nurses in her sleepless breast
An inward urge that takes from her rest and peace.

01.04_011:011”
Sri Aurobindo, Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

Tamsyn Muir
“Waking up had an air of resurrection, of having spent a winter as a dried-out shell and coming back to the world as a new green shoot. A new green shoot with problems.”
Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“I realized I loved him after everything went wrong so I wallowed in self-pity and prayed I could wake up.”
Dominic Riccitello

Michael Bassey Johnson
“There are universes within the same universe, and there is a universe where a few wake up to live, and another where a great many wake up to survive.”
Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Burn Like Fire

Michael Bassey Johnson
“Waking up is magical; falling asleep is a miracle.”
Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Burn Like Fire

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