Quotation Explorer - 'Wakes'

Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone who wakes up, or who, still asleep, realizes that what is taken to be real is a ‘dream’ is going crazy. - R.D. Laing
Dreamers must dream on as long as the nightmare wakes them upto greet with a bucketful of reality - Munia Khan
You are the one who wakes up the most beautiful illusions in me and you are the one who makes me believe in a better world, so you will always have a special place in my heart. - Auliq Ice
No person wakes up and finds themselves on the world stage. When that happens, it is in the movies. - Bidemi Mark-Mordi
Every morning, the sunrise wakes me up with rays of hope. - Debasish Mridha
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. - Dr. Seuss
A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin. - Victor J. Banis
Not all fairytales have happy endings, my dear...Not all witches burn in ovens, not every princess wakes up, and sometimes the trail of breadcrumbs doesn’t lead to a safe place...I should know.- Extract from The Blood Witching, copyright . - Eleanor Keane
Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes. - John Dryden
She wakes in a puddle of sunlight.Her hands asleep beside her.Her hair draped on the lawnlike a mantle of cloth.I give her my trothfor our love is whole;her breath is my wine,her scent is my soul. - Roman Payne
Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale story that speaks to you, that pops into your head during your daily commute, that wakes you up in the morning. - Jennifer Weiner
We learn from experience. A man never wakes up his second baby just to see it smile. - Grace Williams
I just want to live in a way that either wakes people up or shakes people up. Whether I have opened a wound or opened a heart, I have touched a life and helped bring a change. - Nikki Rowe
My Love wakes in a puddle of sunlight.Her hands asleep beside her.Her hair draped on the lawnlike a mantle of cloth.I give her my troth, for our love is wholeI sing her beauty in my soul - Roman Payne
​Until your inner teacher wakes up, all worldly teachings are worthless. - Abhijit Naskar
your mother is the longest magic show you will ever seeno one knows how her face is target practice for her partner and a shield for her childrenhow she makes a mouthful of blood disappearerases bruiseshardens teethhow she wakes up and dresses her children beforedressing her wounds - Nia Afyah
A man wakes up and for a few moments he experiences everything exactly as it is. Jon wrote: A man wakes up and is lucid. It doesn’t last long, though, he thought, that kind of lucidity. If it did you wouldn’t be able to stand it, it would kill you. - Ullmann, Linn
A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them. - Anthony Trollope
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. - Dr. Seuss
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities. - Dr. Seuss
When people sleep, others stay awake to effect changes in the world. Every other person wakes up in the morning to a totally different world - Gossy Ukanwoke
Morning sunrise wakes me upwith rays of hope.Clouds of fear can hide the sunbut not for long.If rays of hope are strongand patience is a song,then hope will bloom andrain will bring a rainbow. - Debasish Mridha
Silence then, and the scent of apple trees, and the nightmare sense of grief that comes when a man wakes again to feel a loss he has forgotten in sleep. - Mary Stewart
My Love wakes in a puddle of sunlight.Her hands asleep beside her.Her hair draped on the lawnlike a mantle of cloth.I give her my lifefor our love is wholeI sing her beauty in my soul. - Roman Payne
My job takes up many daylight hours, it wakes me in the still of night and fills my head with ghosts and monsters but I love it, telling stories is what I was born to do. - Ken Scott
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