Saving yourself Quote by Junot Díaz Download Open image ““Nothing more exhilarating (he wrote) than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.”” — Junot Díaz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Saving yourself
“A thrilling, brilliant and electrifying life is yours the moment you wake-up.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“All I can do is read a book to stay awake, and it rips my life away, but it's a great escape.” — Blind Melon Copy Share Image
“Waking up was not my best time of the day. It took me a while to become fully human on a good day.” — Maer Wilson Copy Share Image
“It was one of those rare nights when I was kept awake not by my nightmares and anxieties but by something exciting and exhilarating.… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Every morning become my fearful time. Because i realized i'll repeat what i do yesterday again, again and again. I want back to sleep… — Arozy Saputra Copy Share Image
“I live my life like it will be a book, I want to inspire people, not put them to sleep.” — Sandra Swartz Copy Share Image
“...an irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself...” — Homer Copy Share Image
“I only wake to fall asleep And sleep, to awake without end.” — Konstantin Batyushkov Copy Share Image
“Night, the time I can stop worrying about my life and drift off into the abyss, free from conscious thought. It is my only… — Jaime Guerard Copy Share Image
“Life was running, running after a mirage-like desires. I met him, by chance, resting for a night on a bank of Time. observed him… — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
“He felt that taking naps was much more beneficial than confronting catastrophes.” — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“Don't put your life on hold for someone, or you'll wake up at forty-two with an empty house and a terrifying sense of freedom… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It might interest you that just as the U.S. was ramping up its involvement in Vietnam, LBJ launched an illegal invasion of the Dominican… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it? There are many formulas. One year for every year… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
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… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The one thing about being a dude and writing from a female perspective is that the baseline is, you suck. The baseline is it… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“I used to think those were the barrio rules, Latinos and blacks in, whites out —a place we down cats weren’t supposed to go.… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
I've always thought that you don't love a country by turning a blind eye to its crimes and to a problem. The way that… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Called her a whore and attacked her walls, tearing down her posters and throwing her books everywhere. I found out because some whitegirl ran… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
You're Dominican only if you do this, this, and that. And if you do this and that, you'll be accepted to a certain degree… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Ramfis fled the country after Trujillo's death, lived dissolutely off his father's swag, and ended up dying in a car crash of his own… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
“Saving others is always more important than saving yourself. It has to be, or none of us would do any good.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“An almost infallible means of saving yourself from the desire of self-destruction is always to have something to do.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being saved means getting made fun of because you're saving yourself for marriage. But knowing that you're making the right choice for God — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“SERIOUSLY? Is it because of Jesus? Are you, like, saving yourself for him?” Sex seemed simpler for Kelsey. She had the body of a… — Cora Carmack Copy Share Image
“Weren't you wearing a purity ring when we got here? Aren't you supposed to be saving yourself?" Shanti asked. "Yeah," Mary Lou answered. "And… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Nothing more exhilarating ... than saving yourself by the simple act of waking. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
If you’re the kind of person who has no guts, you just give up every time life pushes you. If you’re that kind of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sooner you stop waiting for someone to arrive on a white horse and save you, the sooner you'll be able to focus on… — Unkown Copy Share Image
Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, Don't do it… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Why do they even call it that, "saving yourself"? Like we need to be rescued from sex? It's not like virgins spend their whole… — Robyn Schneider Copy Share Image
“How can we pick and choose which parts of the Bible to follow? One thing is God’s will and another is just cultural differences?… — Trevor D. Richardson Copy Share Image
Don't cut your wrists. Don't cut your thighs. Put down that lighter. Pull up your sleeves. Show the world that your still alive. Put… — Anonymous Copy Share Image