Awoke Quotes

86 Awoke quotes by 72 unique authors

The birds, the poets of the animal creation - what though they never get beyond the lyrical! - awoke to utter their own joy, and… — George MacDonald
In vast stretches of the earth, men awoke today in hunger. They will spend the day in unceasing toil. And as the sun goes down… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The odor of frying bacon, sausage links, and ham tiptoed on little pig feet all the way to the north end of the second floor.… — Tom Robbins
All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another… — Robert Louis Stevenson
When the first light dawned on the earth, and the birds awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and the nimble early… — Henry David Thoreau
Inspiration arrived as a result of profound indolence... I awoke with a start and witnessed as from a seat in a theatre, three acts of… — Jean Cocteau
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. — Heinrich Heine
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. — Rabindranath Tagore
Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life. — Franz Kafka
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. — Franz Kafka
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. — Malcolm X
Days and nights passed over this despair of flesh, but one morning he awoke, looked (with calm now) at the blurred things that lay about… — Jorge Luis Borges
He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed. — Martin Amis
[Oedipa Maas] awoke at last to find herself getting laid. — Thomas Pynchon
I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever… — Malcolm X
I wept in my dreams. I dreamed you lay in the grave; I awoke, and the tears still poured down my cheeks. I wept in… — Heinrich Heine
This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he longed for freedom.… — W. Somerset Maugham
He awoke, opened his eye. The room meant very little to him; he was too deeply immersed in the non-being from which he had just… — Paul Bowles
When I awoke it was daylight. The inside of my tent was coated in a curious flaky rime, which I realized after a moment was… — Bill Bryson
When she awoke, the world was on fire. — Scott Westerfeld
And just when I thought the pain had dulled, my mind would betray me and bring Dad back to life in my dreams. Sometimes I… — Ilona Andrews
When she awoke there was a melody in her head she could not identify or recall ever hearing before. 'Perhaps I made it up,' she… — Toni Morrison
I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth… — Stephen Fry

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