We Wake Quotes
99 quotes by 80 authors
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When we wake up in the morning and we make decisions, these decisions come from the night, the night of eternity, our other side.
— Frederick Lenz
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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness…
— Anna Deavere Smith
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Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
— Bill Watterson
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When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.
— Robert Anton Wilson
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It seems like we wake up and it's a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think,…
— Steven Wright
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We will all wake up semi-angels, If we wake at all.
— Rod McKuen
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It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it…
— Neil Gaiman
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We sleep to time's hurdy-gurdy; we wake, if ever we wake, to the silence of God. And then, when we wake to the deep shores…
— Annie Dillard
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I am human. Like all humans, I do not remember my birth. By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are little children, and…
— Diane Setterfield
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to…
— Henry James
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Anyone who says, “Here’s my address, write me a poem,†deserves something in reply. So I’ll tell you a secret instead: poems hide. In the…
— Naomi Shihab Nye
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And yet, and yet, in these our ghostly lives, Half night, half day, half sleeping, half awake, How if our waking life, like that of…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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It is not futile to do what we do. We wake up with energy and we do something. And we make, of course, failures and…
— John Cage
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Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake…
— C.S. Lewis
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Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer.…
— Unknown Author
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We wake up one day and find we have lost our dreams in order to protect our days.
— Kent Nerburn
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Maybe I'm dreaming you. Maybe you're dreaming me; maybe we only exist in each other's dreams and every morning when we wake up we forget…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence...
— Annie Dillard
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I'm telling you, people. Everyday we wake up is another blessing. Follow your dreams and don't let anyone stop you. Never say never.
— Justin Bieber
Who Wrote These We Wake Quotes
80 authors contributed a total of 99 We Wake Quotes, led by these top contributors: