102 Quotes About Waking-up

If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a blow to the head, why bother reading it in the first place?.... A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us."--Franz Kafka in a letter to Oskar Pollak dated January 27, 1904

Some people wake up fast. Some people wake up slow. I wake up dead.

I awoke on the fifth morning with a brightness of anticipation that seemed to challenge fate.

If this isn’t important, I will rip your throat open and piss down your lungs.

There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, 'Good morning, God,' and the other is to say, 'Good God, morning'!

It's nice to wake up in the morning alone and not have to tell someone you love them when you don't love them anymore.

Alarm clocks were going off in the city now. One after another, sometimes two or three together, they drove their small silver knives into the body of the great dream that sprawled naked on the housetops. Sensual, amiable, and defenseless as it was, it would still take a little while to die.

It's like waking up and finding there's a war on. Nothing's the way it used to be and it's difficult to get your balance. That's why I held Billy's hand.

Only I never wish to get up in the morning" ~ Dorthy