Woke Quotes
594 quotes by 502 authors
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I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster's paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I…
— Jack Kerouac
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There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pool singing at…
— Sara Teasdale
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The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he had to get…
— Cormac McCarthy
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I woke with a terrible headache and wobbled around 'till I fell out the window." "You what?" "Fell out the window. That one over there."…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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You were ambitious - for your life, what it was like when you woke up in the morning, and not for some attainment. Like most…
— Lionel Shriver
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Lucy woke out of the deepest sleep you can imagine, with the feeling that the voice she liked best in the world had been calling…
— C.S. Lewis
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I went to bed last night utterly dejected; I thought I was never going to amount to anything, and that you had thrown away your…
— Jean Webster
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Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken legs…
— Junot Diaz
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Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.
— Raymond Carver
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Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one day…
— Harry Crews
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Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so…
— Emily Bronte
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And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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As I settled down to sleep in that new bed in the dark city, I saw that it was too late now, too late for…
— Colm Toibin
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Jay wondered how they'd feel the morning they all woke up and realized that somehow Camelot had turned into Mordor.
— George R. R. Martin
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When Josey woke up and saw the feathery frost on her windowpane, she smiled. Finally, it was cold enough to wear long coats and tights.…
— Sarah Addison Allen
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I was so happy every morning when I woke up that I was pissing smiley faces.
— Nikki Sixx
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Last year, when Zora was a freshman, sophomores had seemed altogether a different kind of human: so very definite in their tastes and opinions, in…
— Zadie Smith
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Diesel is back," Ranger said. Yes. How did you know?" I woke up with a migraine this morning." Ranger said.
— Janet Evanovich
Who Wrote These Woke Quotes
502 authors contributed a total of 594 Woke Quotes, led by these top contributors: