Quotes About Awakening

I felt like I was going through the motions of living my lukewarm life with the occasional flare-ups of awesomeness here and there.

Who dares disturb a sleeping dragon?

It was like we had broken out of a lifetime of prison after realizing the door had been unlocked the entire time!

we woke as if from a nightmare only to find that the ugly are still not beautiful and the dull still do not sparkle.

He spent two weeks in South Shore Hospital in a state of near oblivion; and when he woke, it was as though he'd taken a trip around the world and lost most of his luggage along the way. Heavy bags they were, packed with thirty years of indignities, rages, brawls and indiscretions.

from Tattoo- "Push-up Bra Barbie over there wanted to smack you around a little to wake you up

I have to say, Heiress, I'm not a big fan of comas.

It's only when I'm awake that I think about dying.

My body is like a single nerve ending from head to toe. Everything feels alive and more . My heart is opening, like the heart of Rappaccini's daughter, Beatrice, when she meets young Giovanni after he wanders into her garden. As I stand there, I can almost feel it unfold, petal by petal, beat by beat.

It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!

La nuit, je m'éveille, serrant le vide, serrant ton rêve.

But now the miner was waking up under the ground, germinating in the earth like good seed, and one fine morning you would see him springing up like corn in the fields; yes, men would spring up, an army of men to bring justice back into the world.

the vague feeling of ambitions in common, the awakening of a higher intelligence among the vulgar herd of dunces and dunderheads they had to contend with in class (27)

It is hard to remember just when you first became aware of being alive. It is like looking through rain onto a bald, new lawn; as you watch, the brown is all pricked with pale green. You did not see the points pierce, did not hear the stab - there they are!

But the world is sleeping in ignorance and error, sir, and we must be crowing cocks, and singing larks, and a rising sun to awake her; or else we'll pull society up to the roots, and plant it in a different place. We'll build Alms-houses, and transcendental State prisons, and scaffolds -- we will blow out the sun, and the moon, and encourage invention. Alpha shall kiss Omega--we will ride up the hill of glory -- Hallelujah, all hail!

It was not Death, for I stood up, And all the Dead, lie down— It was not Night, for all the Bells Put out their Tongues, for Noon.

Until the daffodil Unties her yellow bonnet

I'll tell you how the sun rose, — A ribbon at a time.

coffee's the most important thing they sell because most of us need it to keep us going, like gas in the car.

And then I woke— Then I woke up— I woke, and found that life was duty.

Do you realize that you are awake?' 'No, any more than when I dream and have the impression that I am awake.' 'And is the one impression in no way different from the other?' 'No.

The contribution of the Western democracies to the awakening of the East has been indirect and certainly unintended. They have kindled an enthusiasm of resentment against the West; and it is this anti-Western fervor which is at present rousing the Orient from its stagnation of centuries.2

She returned to consciousness only to find herself in an unescapable nightmare.

Je ne me réveille jamais entier ; des parts de moi restent engluées dans le sommeil.