Wakened Quotes

24 Wakened quotes by 24 unique authors

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence. — William Dean Howells
For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state, — Joseph Campbell
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
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
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
Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker. — Antonio Porchia
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
You have to be very deep to be dead, he thought, and I'm not. He began to have some concept of forever, and his mind… — Peter S. Beagle
Her partially open lips now opened wide, and her soft, fragrant tongue entered his mouth, where it began a relentless search for unformed words, for… — Haruki Murakami
Valancy herself had never quite relinquished a certain pitiful, shamed, little hope that Romance would come her way yet—never, until this wet, horrible morning, when… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
We have witnessed Chernobyl, Bhopal, Challenger, Seveso, Amoco Cadiz, Three Mile Island and have still not wakened from our fantasy that large organizations can carry… — Donella Meadows

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