Wakened Quotes
24 quotes by 24 authors
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He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
— William Dean Howells
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For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state,
— Joseph Campbell
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I felt a curious thrill, as if something had stirred in me, half wakened from sleep. There was something very remote and strange and beautiful…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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No poem is worth anything unless it starts from a poetic trance, out of which you can be wakened by interruption as from a dream.…
— Robert Graves
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EXISTENCE, n. A transient, horrible, fantastic dream,/ Wherein is nothing yet all things do seem:/ From which we're wakened by a friendly nudge/ Of our…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.
— Antonio Porchia
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For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long…
— D. H. Lawrence
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There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of…
— Oscar Wilde
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But Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, but can recapture…
— Kenneth Grahame
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Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Sometimes when she is able to spend the night with him they are wakened by the three minarets of the city beginning their prayers before…
— Michael Ondaatje
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In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out for exegesis; no, it entered…
— Carol Shields
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Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but…
— James M. Barrie
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Down the hill I went, and then, I forgot the ways of men, For night-scents, heady and damp and cool Wakened ecstasy
— Sara Teasdale
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To put it another way, pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can't he rouse us more…
— William Nicholson
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The truth is that when one is still a child-or even if one is grown up- and has been well fed, and has slept long…
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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O weep for Adonis - He is dead." "Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Who Wrote These Wakened Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 24 Wakened Quotes as follows: