Wake Us Quotes

27 quotes by 21 authors

Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears unto the pills… — Malcolm Muggeridge
You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness. — C.S. Lewis
We sleep in language if language does not come to wake us up with its strangeness. — Robert Kelly
Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nearly everyone is aware of dramatic changes in the world. Yet we continue to live in the assumption that we can ride out the changes… — Verlyn Klinkenborg
If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read? So that… — Franz Kafka
Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everything in our lives has the potential to wake us up or put us to sleep. Allowing it to awaken us is up to us. — Pema Chodron
We don't choose what's going to wake us up. — Dani Shapiro
It is my experience that the world itself has a role to play in our liberation. Its very pressures, pains, and risks can wake us… — Joanna Macy
Love for children is the enormous untapped power that can wake us up to the profound changes we need to make if weâ€™re to have… — Raffi
There is no intellectual road to God...No, we need God to wake us up to our need of a Savior. — Alistair Begg
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Till Human voices wake us, and we drown. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence… — William Nicholson
If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it? — Franz Kafka
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us… — Franz Kafka
What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over. Theyare to be happy in: Where can… — Philip Larkin
People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if theyre afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake… — Suman Rai
People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love… — Blondie

Who Wrote These Wake Us Quotes

21 authors contributed a total of 27 Wake Us Quotes as follows: