Quotes About Awakening

We are all sleeping avatars of God, with amnesia.

Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up. I

Listen, Ruth. I saw the fabric of reality split open. I saw—behind. Underneath. I saw what was really there. And I don't want to go back.

it woke him up and allowed his dreams, his nocturnal desires and random wishes, to condense into a semblance of rationality.

People in dreams are always secure until the dreamer wakes up.

I'm just trying to wake up - I'm so afraid of sleeping all my life and then dying - I want to wake up first. I wouldn't care if it was just for an hour, as long as I was properly alive and awake…

She felt light-headed, as if part of her were somewhere else and dreaming of this, and she'd wake up soon and find everything normal.

Todo hombre está en poder de su espectro hasta que llega la hora en que su humanidad despierta… William Blake

the joy of awakening each morning knowing there were all those empty hours ahead to be filled only with work.

You've been kidding yourself about yourself for so long, you're someone else. Your you is just a fragile fabrication. Every morning, you have to wake up, assemble this busy, dissembling monster, and get him or her on his or her feet again for another round of fantasy.

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: has the Riemann Hypothesis been proven?

Words in books can remind us of truth, and help awaken us to it. But in themselves, words are just paint and writers are just painters . . . Let us not overestimate the power of any form of literature.

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

All the feelings Are dead inside me And I want them To be alive

I've known this for a while, but you can know something for years without it really hitting you. Now it's hitting me.

one thing has always been consistent: Everyone wakes up tired. In truth, most of us go through the day tired, as if all of the information swirling through the air, all of the thoughts battling within our mind, leave us in a state of perpetual exhaustion. I don't know if it was always like this, but I'm pretty sure it's more like this now.

And you are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be.

She looked like she was waking up in a strange place—only she knew she hadn't gone to sleep yet, and that this was actually life.

Waking is hard, and waking is glorious. We watch as you stir, then as you stumble out of your beds. We know that gratitude is the last thing on your mind. But you should be grateful. You've made it to another day.

The funny thin is, you say it like it's so unusual that you've only done it once. But I bet a whole lot of people go through their lives without ever telling the truth, not really. And they wake up in the same body and the same life every singe morning.

You are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be.

I wanted my spring awakening, even if it was coming a season late. I wanted summer lovin' that would happen so fast. I wanted to succeed at the business of love without really trying.

Waking is hard, and waking is glorious. We watch as you stir, then as you stumble out of your beds. We know that gratitude is the last thing on your mind. But you should be grateful.

She said moments like this were like waking up in the middle of the night: You're scared, you're disoriented, and you're completely convinced you're right. But then you stay awake a little longer and you realize things aren't as fearful as they seem." Excerpt From: David Levithan. "The Lover's Dictionary." iBooks.