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Quotes About Awakening

I love to watch cities wake up, and Paris wakes up more abruptly, more startlingly, than any place I know.
~ Bill Bryson
tiny bag of chemicals twitched and became animate. We were on our way. Four
~ Bill Bryson
thirteen-year-old boys looking at porn for the first time
~ Bill Simmons
Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
~ Bill Watterson
Wake up, get up… Shut up. Listen up… Throw up…Mix up, Goof up… Hurry up… How's your day? Looking up.
~ Bill Watterson
Like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight, there's no need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we already are - as soon as we stop pretending we're small or unholy.
~ Bo Lozoff
If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.
~ Bob Dylan
When are you gonna wake up and strengthened the things that remain.
~ Bob Dylan
No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out.
~ Bohumil Hrabal
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
~ BORGES JORGE LUIS
Con alivio, con humillación, con terror, comprendió que él también era una apariencia, que otro estaba soñándolo.
~ Borges, Jorge Luis
No duermas artista, no duermas, no te entregues al sueño.
~ Boris Pasternak
You vanished, leaving me alone, Without a trace or explanation. When many years had passed me by, Your voice awakened me by chance. I sat and read Your Word all night And came to life out of a trance. Since then I feel more drawn to people, To blend into the morning crowd.
~ Boris Pasternak
Maga, Anna Ivanovna, azon tépelÅ'dik, vajon feltámad-e, pedig hiszen már akkor is feltámadt, amikor megszületett, és észre sem vette.
~ Boris Pasternak
The man under the hedge, sir. He is a magician. Did you never hear that if you wake a magician before his time, you risk bringing his dreams out of his head into the world?
~ Susanna Clarke
I had rooted for Godzilla and King Kong instead of for the people trying to kill them. ... Nobody likes to be awakened from slumber by a nuclear explosion
~ Sy Montgomery
the noise of Manhattan woke me as effectively as a jolt of caffeine. The blaring of horns and the thud of tires over a manhole cover invigorated me. Rapid-moving streams of pedestrians flanked both sides of the clogged street, while buildings stretched ambitiously toward the sky, keeping us in shadow even as the sun climbed.
~ Sylvia Day
Finally, you come to your senses. Gerard to Isabel - The Stranger I Married
~ Sylvia Day
Coffee is one of my major food groups.
~ Sylvia Day
I woke to the sound of rain.
~ Sylvia Plath
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. [I think I made you up inside my head.]
~ Sylvia Plath
All night your moth-breath Flickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen. A far sea moves in my ear. --from Morning Song, written 19 February 1961
~ Sylvia Plath
And I, stepping from this skin Of old bandages, boredoms, old faces Step to you from the black car of Lethe, Pure as a baby.
~ Sylvia Plath
Speak in sign language of a lost otherworld, A world we lose by merely waking up.
~ Sylvia Plath