102 Quotes About Waking-up

Afternoons are hard. Mornings are pure evil from the pits of hell, which is why I don't do them anymore.

J!m squinted his first hate of the day.

The hemulen woke up slowly and recognised himself and wished he had been someone he didn't know.

There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.

I’m not the Princess, I’m the Dragon. I will roast you and eat you whole

When you wake up, your face will be dry. But that doesn’t mean you didn’t cry.

The deeper the awakening of man is, the nearer he is towards the Truth in completing the task of his transitory existence. And when his time is up, it is, by intrinsic necessity, an inescapably irreversible condition that he should no longer wake up! (— Danny Castillones Sillada, The Sensation of Not Being Dead)

This morning I woke up before the alarm clock went off and the sky outside was a big red ocean. You're beautiful when you're sleeping so I spent an hour observing the way you breathe. Inhale, exhale, without a thought of tomorrow. The window was open and the air was so crisp and I couldn't imagine how to ever ask for more than this.

The streets are empty and quiet this early in the morning and I can hear my own footsteps as they fall. I can never forget the imperfections in these brick sidewalks, where they rise and dip around tree roots, where loose segments can make you stumble and fall. Mom is right, the morning is cooler than I expected, but I am committed to the cold air sting that will soon turn to an unbearably soggy heat. Such is the way of a city built on a swamp.