Awoke Quotes
86 Awoke quotes by 72 unique authors
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X. I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried—“La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall!” XI.…
— John Keats
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She felt herself needing more and more sleep. When she awoke in the morning, she thought of when she might lie down again - and…
— Susan Sontag
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In the morning I awoke early and experienced that sinking sensation that overcomes you when you first open your eyes and realize that instead of…
— Bill Bryson
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Next morning I awoke, looked out the window and nearly died of fright. My screams brought Atticus from his bathroom half-shaven. "The world's endin', Atticus!…
— Harper Lee
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I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of…
— Oscar Wilde
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I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I…
— Elizabeth Berg
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When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills rose up all…
— Susanna Clarke
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A wound in the soul, coming from the rending of the spiritual body, strange as it may seem, gradually closes like a physical wound. And…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Every night death came, slowly, painfully, and every morning Maddox awoke in bed, knowing he'd have to die again later. That was his greatest curse…
— Gena Showalter
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Nellie Gomez awoke to a splitting headache. Worse, she was still hungry. "Where's my croissant?" she demanded of the person leaning over her. "Dear child,"…
— Gordon Korman
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Only after Mom went missing did you realize that her stories were piled inside you, in endless stacks. Mom's everyday life used to go on…
— Shin Kyung-sook
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There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
— Kate Chopin
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It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was playing his life.…
— Elie Wiesel
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From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had…
— Jane Austen
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Mary awoke from her nightmare with a pounding heart, convinced that she had only imagined Elizabeth's cruel plot. A full moon was shining into her…
— Margaret George
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It was good work, the kind of work that let you sleep soundly at night and, when you awoke, look forward to the day.
— Jeannette Walls
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Every star was once darker than the night, before it awoke.
— Dejan Stojanovic
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When the mountain quaked Like an elbow's nudge Like a shout that something is wrong The people awoke and Knew, yes, knew, that bandits had…
— Shannon Hale
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Instead of answering your question directly I shall quote from the Indian poet Tagore: “I slept and dreamt that life was joy/ I awoke and…
— Paulo Coelho
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One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
— Lord Byron
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My arm came back just as quickly as it went sore on me in 1915. I awoke one morning and learned I could throw without…
— Dazzy Vance
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I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being…
— Zhuangzi
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I awoke with devout thanksgiving for my friends.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It never dawned on me to be born I just awoke to the fact one day. My first orgasm was a similar experience.
— Jules Carlysle
Who Wrote These Awoke Quotes
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