Quotes of: Waken Keyword

I want so much for my lover. At night when our beds are drawn close together I waken and see his dear yellow head on the pillow - sometimes his arm thrown over on my bed - and I kiss his hand, very softly so that it will not waken him.

Dawn Powell

Love alone could waken love.

Pearl S. Buck

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

William Dean Howells

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

Tryon Edwards

The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.

Martin Buber

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.

Bayard Taylor

[as Bilbo enters Erebor] Balin: Bilbo, if there is indeed a live dragon down there, don't waken it.

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state,

The Hero With a Thousand Faces

O weep for Adonis - He is dead." "Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of life

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Down the violet wind slid syrinx melodies, wild as foxes, mad as love, strange as wakening.

The Battle of Evernight

I am an insomniac. Most of my nights include a moment of wakening. Often I will make my way to the kitchen to make tea and read for awhile.

Jacqueline Novogratz

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 freedom.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Alex: Appy-polly-loggies. I had something of a pain in the gulliver so had to sleep. I was not awakened when I gave orders for wakening.

A Clockwork Orange

Down the hill I went, and then, I forgot the ways of men, For night-scents, heady and damp and cool Wakened ecstasy

Flame and Shadow

The dream that wakened me pushed at the veil of consciousness but could not burst through, and I was left wondering what I had known just a moment before.

Perpetua: A Bride, a Martyr, a Passion

Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life.

C.S. Lewis

They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss.

Sharp Objects

The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening our own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination is illusion.

Original Self: Living with Paradox and Originality

Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledg...

Emile Durkheim

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 the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.

Jorge Luis Borges

no one sleeps more beautifully than you. But i am afraid that you will waken just now, and touch me with an indifferent glance, lightly passing, and commit the murder of beauty.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko