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Quotes About Awakening

Then bed, and again the luxury of dark. Still the blood and flesh of me were electric and singing quietly. But it ebbed and ebbed and dark and sleep and oblivion came and came, surging, surging, surging inward, lapping and drowning with no-name, no-identity, none at all. Just nothing, yet the seeds of awakening and life slumbered there in the dark
~ Sylvia Plath
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again.
~ Sylvia Plath
So these posed sheets, before they thin to nothing, Speak in sign language of a lost otherworld, A world we lose by merely waking up.
~ Sylvia Plath
Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
~ T.S. Eliot
Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.
~ T.S. Eliot
This form, this face, this life living to live in a world of time beyond me; let me resign my life for this life, my speech for that unspoken, the awakened, lips parted, the hope, the new ships.
~ T.S. Eliot
The morning comes to consciousness
~ T.S. Eliot
Shaina, said the dawn under the door, wake up! Here comes Young Ash with beer in his belly as high as his eyes and here comes the day walking over the mountain, the day when the witch buys your maiden's blood with her spell.
~ Tanith Lee
When I was sixteen, I made the discovery -- love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me.
~ Tennessee Williams
You just need to recognize inspiration when it strikes.
~ Julianne MacLean
Go to her," Grimalkin said, backing away. "Wake her up. I will attempt to rouse Goodfellow once more. Perhaps he will waken if claws are applied in a strategically important area...
~ Julie Kagawa - The Iron Knight
Hablar de despertarse cuando por fin se está tan bien así dormido.
~ Julio Cortazar
Sus conquistas son como un sueño, las olvida al despertar...
~ Julio Cortazar
hija, hasta entonces inadvertidos, pasaron
~ Julio Cortazar
Hablar de despertarse cuando por fin se está tan bien dormido
~ Julio Cortazar
Cuando el sol asoma sobre las lomas, la hora celeste llega a su fin. La niebla se ha disuelto, las beatas están sumidas en éxtasis, los noctámbulos duermen, los canillitas han repartido los diarios, los obreros trepan a los andamios. La luz desvanece el mundo mágico del alba. Los gallinazos sin plumas han regresado a su nido.
~ Julio Ramón Ribeyro
When an ascesis is understood as a technique for the conscious creation of a force that can be applied, in the first place, at any level, then the disciplines taught by the doctrine of awakening can be recognized as those that incorporate the highest degree of crystallinity and independence.
~ Julius Evola
Nothing more exhilarating (he wrote) than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.
~ Junot Diaz
The next day he woke up feeling like he'd been unshackled from his fat, like he'd been washed clean from his misery, and for a long time he couldn't remember why he felt this way, and then he said her name.
~ Junot Diaz
You have dreams where she's talking to you like in the old days- in that sweet Spanish of the Cibao, no sign of rage, of disappointment. And then you wake up.
~ Junot Diaz
Nada más excitante (escribió) que salvarse a uno mismo con el simple acto de despertar.
~ Junot Diaz
I felt, driving home, that for the first time in many years, maybe ever, I was coming truly alive, and here's the thing: the problem of being alive is that it makes you frightened.
~ Justin Cronin
He felt not so much awake as ejected bodily from sleep; his mind felt beaten clean.
~ Justin Cronin
It was as if he had lived all of his twenty-six years within an artificially narrow bandwidth of his potential personhood, only to have the scales fall abruptly from his eyes.
~ Justin Cronin