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Quotes About Waking

The morning will come In the press of every kiss, With your head upon my chest Where I will annoy you With every waking breath Until you decide to wake up.
~ Coheed and Cambria
Balekin and Orlagh are planning your murder," I say flustered. "Yes," he says lazily. "So why did I wake at all?
~ Holly Black
I'd been secretly fantasising about you waking up fully restored back to factory settings.
~ Lisa Jewell
Altogether, it made wooing Morpheus a great deal more difficult than usual. I napped and woke up, napped and woke up, until finally, around two thirty, Rita closed her suitcase, thumped it onto the floor, and crawled in beside me, and I dropped off into deep, wonderful sleep at last. In
~ Jeff Lindsay
WHEN UNCLE STAN rose in the morning, he somehow managed to wake the entire household. No one complained, as he was the breadwinner in the family, and in any case he was cheaper and more reliable than an alarm clock.
~ Jeffrey Archer
Cecilia appeared in our consciousness at odd moments, most often as we were just waking up, or staring out a car-pool window streaked with rain—she rose up in her wedding dress, muddy with the afterlife, but then a horn would honk, or our radio alarms would unleash a popular song, and we snapped back to reality.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
At eleven, Kate woke Jake up when she went searching in the cooler for juice. You know, you used to be peaceful, he grumbled. I can't believe you were ever married. Kate said, as she cracked the can open. What did you do, make her stand in the corner all the time?
~ Jennifer Crusie
Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces.
~ John Milton
More simply, regard everything as a dream. Life is a dream. Death is also a dream, for that matter; waking is a dream and sleeping is a dream. Another way to put this is, "Every situation is a passing memory.
~ Pema Chodron
It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours.
~ Philip K. Dick
Lyra felt herself moving into a kind of trance beyond sleep and waking: a state of conscious dreaming, almost, in which she was dreaming that she was being carried by bears to a city in the stars. She
~ Philip Pullman
Waking up in full daylight, he dials 0 and asks if this is Saturday. A reproachful second goes by before the operator says, "This is Friday, sir.
~ David Gates
and suddenly you started singing out your love for me. My name and everything, loud enough to reach the top floors of all the buildings. I should have told you to stop, but I didn't want you to stop. I didn't mind if your love for me woke people up. I didn't mind if it somehow sneaked into their sleep.
~ David Levithan
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.
~ David Levithan
The waking world. Even the most cynical among us must greet it with a touch of hope. Maybe it's a chemical reaction, our thoughts communing with the sunrise and creating that brief, intense faith in newness.
~ David Levithan
The waking world. Even the most cynical among us must greet it with a touch of hope. Maybe it's a chemical reaction, our thoughts communing with sunrise and creating that brief, intense faith in newness.
~ David Levithan
As soon as the knowledge of the Reality has sprung up, there can be no fruits of past actions to be experienced, owing to the unreality of the body, in the same way as there can be no dream after waking.
~ Yogananda
I'm up around 11am to my alarm. Without it I'd sleep into the afternoon.
~ Arlo Parks
Sometimes, upon waking, the residual dream can be more appealing that reality, and one is reluctant to give it up. For a while, you feel like a ghost -- Not fully materialized, and unable to manipulate your surroundings. Or else, it is the dream that haunts you. You wait with the promise of the next dream.
~ Craig Thompson
M onday morning came earlier than Hannah anticipated. It arrived at four-thirty in the morning when she rolled over on what felt like small boulders in her bed and discovered that Moishe had brought her the contents of his food bowl during the night.
~ Joanne Fluke
Even the damned can dream - infact, it's part of their torment. To escape, even for a second or two, to forget reality and drift, only to be yanked back into the waking world like a fish caught on a line... Yes. In some ways that's even worse than to have no relief at all. That second of two, on awakening, when anything still seems possible
~ Joanne Harris
I always hated good dreams. I couldnt take the disappointment of waking up.
~ Unknown
I'm glad I woke up. I always have the sh..tiest dreams, stuff like being late for everything or being pregnant or painfully dying.
~ Unknown
If you don't develop a habit of waking up before the rest of the world, you won't be able to change the world.
~ Unknown