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Quotes About Awakening

about the key to something many Christ-followers often talk and pray about: genuine revival.
~ Philip Yancey
It doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how alive you are. Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.
~ Pico Iyer
You might easily be annoyed with me as people are when they are aroused from a doze, and strike out at me;
~ Plato
You may feel irritated at being suddenly awakened when you are caught napping; and you may think that if you were to strike me dead as you easily might, then you would sleep on for the remainder of your lives, unless God in his care of you gives you another gadfly.
~ Plato
The sphere of sense, the Soul in its slumber; for all of the Soul that is in body is asleep and the true getting-up is not bodily but from the body: in any movement that takes the body with it there is no more than passage from sleep to sleep, from bed to bed.
~ Plotinus
We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing...a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
~ Plotinus
Doodle woke up feeling bitey!
~ Unknown
Alas for the dreamer: the moment of consciousness that accompanies the awakening is the acutest of sufferings.
~ Primo Levi
Get up": the illusory barrier of the warm blankets, the thin armor of sleep, the nightly evasion with its very torments drops to pieces around us, and we find ourselves mercilessly awake, exposed to insult, atrociously naked and vulnerable. A
~ Primo Levi
Vai de cel ce viseaz?: momentul conÅŸtient care însoÅ£eÅŸte trezirea este cea mai grea suferin??. Dar nu ni se întâmpl? des ÅŸi nici visele nu sunt lungi: nu suntem decât niÅŸte animale obosite.
~ Primo Levi
Alas for the dreamer : the moment of consciousness that accompanies the awakening is the acutest of sufferings. But it does not often happen to us, and they are not long dreams. We are only tired beasts.
~ Primo Levi
Ay de quien sueña: el momento de conciencia que acompaña al despertar es el sufrimiento más agudo
~ Primo Levi
I thank you, God, who lives always, and Who, as i awaken, has in mercy returned my soul to me; we can ever trust in you.
~ Unknown
Claire. Wake up." She blinked and realized that her head was on Shane's shoulder, and Michael was nowhere to be seen. Her first thought was, Oh my God, am I drooling? Her second was that she hadn't realized she was so close to him, snuggled in. Her third was that although Michael's part of the couch was empty, Shane hadn't moved away. And he was watching her with warm, friendly eyes. Oh. Oh, wow, that was nice.
~ Rachel Caine
I think I just became psychic, he said. Holy crap.
~ Rachel Caine
Wake me for the massacre, okay? Don't want to miss it.
~ Rachel Caine
Meditate?" I took my head out from under the pillow, shook dark hair back from my face, and rolled over on my side to look at him. "Excuse me, but the closest I ever got to having a spiritual awakening was dating a yoga instructor. Once.
~ Rachel Caine
Nightmares aren't frightening once you wake up.
~ Rachel Caine
Nightmares are not terrifying once you are wake up. Memories are.
~ Rachel Caine
Once upon a time, Sleeping Beauty decided to take a nap from which she would never wake up.
~ Rachel Cohn
Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit.
~ Radclyffe Hall
On the road that I have taken, one day, walking, I awaken, amazed to see where I have come, where I'm going, where I'm from.
~ Dean Koontz
black coffee so strong that its smell alone was sufficient to wake anyone in a coma.
~ Dean Koontz
After Christian's death he'd just existed. He felt nothing, just a sense of emptiness. In some ways he welcomed that hollowness inside of him. It was easier to be numb, not caring beyond the basic needs to survive. But with spring's return, some intangible force stirred inside him, as if his emotions had been frozen through dead of winter. Now it was time to live again. His spirit awakened.
~ Unknown