waking-up

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
d2f523d	Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.	waking-up	Glen Cook
04186b2	Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into itself until it has recognized I, and therefrom deduced I am, I am now. Here comes next, and is at least negatively reassuring; because here, this morning, is where it has expected to find itself: what's called at home.	life present sleep waking-up	Christopher Isherwood
7cf7075	"I wanted to wake you straightaway, but I knew I had to wait several hours to ensure you were safely recovered." "What! How long has it been?" "Five minutes. I got bored."	humor nathaniel-hawthorne safety sarcasm waking-up	Jonathan Stroud
399c2af	If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died, the dream was over, you woke up. That's what people meant when they talked about going to heaven. It was like waking up.	dreaming heaven life waking-up	Ian McEwan
ef591cd	Men all do about the same thing when they wake up.	morning waking-up	John Steinbeck
256bed5	The sun was up, the room already too warm. Light filtered in through the net curtains, hanging suspended in the air, sediment in a pond. My head felt like a sack of pulp. Still in my nightgown, damp from some fright I'd pushed aside like foliage, I pulled myself up and out of my tangled bed, then forced myself through the usual dawn rituals - the ceremonies we perform to make ourselves look sane and acceptable to other people. The hair must be smoothed down after whatever apparitions have made it stand on end during the night, the expression of staring disbelief washed from the eyes. The teeth brushed, such as they are. God knows what bones I'd been gnawing in my sleep.	sleep sleeping wake-up waking-up	Margaret Atwood
b186309	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.	alarm-clocks amiable death-of-sleep defenseless morning small-silver-knives the-city the-great-dream waking-up	Peter S. Beagle
d9fe23c	When you wake up, your face will be dry. But that doesn't mean you didn't cry.	dreams dry ella-shepard face tears waking-up	Beth Revis
46533e4	Mitch woke up the next morning the way he always did: badly.	wake waking-up	Jennifer Crusie
62321ac	I woke in the hour before dawn, stuck in that strange state where the memory of your dreams is still powerful enough to motivate your actions.	waking waking-up	Ben Aaronovitch
3f72da1	Mindfulness has to do with waking up and living in harmony with oneself and with the world. It is examining who we are, constantly questioning our views of the world and our place in it, while cultivating appreciation for the fullness of each moment we are alive. It is the direct opposite of taking life for granted. It is empowering as well, because paying attention in this way opens channels to deep reservoirs of creativity, intelligence, imagination, clarity, determination, choice, and wisdom within us.	harmony mindfulness paying-attention present-moment self-examination waking-up wisdom	Jon Kabat-Zinn
6940f31	"Seraphine." The whisper in her dreams and Bridget whimpered and tried to bat it away. She needn't wake yet. It wasn't time to rise. She had hours still. A soft chuckle and the brush of something soft on her cheek. "I would never have guessed you were such a deep sleeper, my practical housekeeper." She had a terrible foreboding, an awful suspicion, even in her dreams, and she fought valiantly through the sluggish waves. Bridget opened her eyes, blinking, in the candlelight, to find azure eyes only inches from her own. They crinkled at the corners. "There you are."	val-napier waking-up	Elizabeth Hoyt
7badb97	My mother always closes her bedroom drapes tight before going to bed at night. I open mine as wide as possible. I like to see everything, I say. What's there to see? Moon. Air. Sunrise. All that light on your face in the morning. Wakes you up. I like to wake up.	drapes light morning poem poetry sleeping waking-up	Anne Carson
9caca84	If this isn't important, I will rip your throat open and piss down your lungs.	mornings piss throat waking-up	James S.A. Corey
109ba86	"I hated to interrupt her. I know how much a dream can be worth, but, alas... "Hello."	waking-up	Richard Brautigan

Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.

Glen Cook

04186b2

Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into itself until it has recognized I, and therefrom deduced I am, I am now. Here comes next, and is at least negatively reassuring; because here, this morning, is where it has expected to find itself: what's called at home.

life present sleep waking-up

Christopher Isherwood

7cf7075

"I wanted to wake you straightaway, but I knew I had to wait several hours to ensure you were safely recovered." "What! How long has it been?" "Five minutes. I got bored."

humor nathaniel-hawthorne safety sarcasm waking-up

Jonathan Stroud

399c2af

If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died, the dream was over, you woke up. That's what people meant when they talked about going to heaven. It was like waking up.

dreaming heaven life waking-up

Ian McEwan

ef591cd

Men all do about the same thing when they wake up.

morning waking-up

John Steinbeck

256bed5

The sun was up, the room already too warm. Light filtered in through the net curtains, hanging suspended in the air, sediment in a pond. My head felt like a sack of pulp. Still in my nightgown, damp from some fright I'd pushed aside like foliage, I pulled myself up and out of my tangled bed, then forced myself through the usual dawn rituals - the ceremonies we perform to make ourselves look sane and acceptable to other people. The hair must be smoothed down after whatever apparitions have made it stand on end during the night, the expression of staring disbelief washed from the eyes. The teeth brushed, such as they are. God knows what bones I'd been gnawing in my sleep.

sleep sleeping wake-up waking-up

Margaret Atwood

b186309

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.

alarm-clocks amiable death-of-sleep defenseless morning small-silver-knives the-city the-great-dream waking-up

Peter S. Beagle

d9fe23c

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

dreams dry ella-shepard face tears waking-up

Beth Revis

46533e4

Mitch woke up the next morning the way he always did: badly.

wake waking-up

Jennifer Crusie

62321ac

I woke in the hour before dawn, stuck in that strange state where the memory of your dreams is still powerful enough to motivate your actions.

waking waking-up

Ben Aaronovitch

3f72da1

Mindfulness has to do with waking up and living in harmony with oneself and with the world. It is examining who we are, constantly questioning our views of the world and our place in it, while cultivating appreciation for the fullness of each moment we are alive. It is the direct opposite of taking life for granted. It is empowering as well, because paying attention in this way opens channels to deep reservoirs of creativity, intelligence, imagination, clarity, determination, choice, and wisdom within us.

harmony mindfulness paying-attention present-moment self-examination waking-up wisdom

Jon Kabat-Zinn

6940f31

"Seraphine." The whisper in her dreams and Bridget whimpered and tried to bat it away. She needn't wake yet. It wasn't time to rise. She had hours still. A soft chuckle and the brush of something soft on her cheek. "I would never have guessed you were such a deep sleeper, my practical housekeeper." She had a terrible foreboding, an awful suspicion, even in her dreams, and she fought valiantly through the sluggish waves. Bridget opened her eyes, blinking, in the candlelight, to find azure eyes only inches from her own. They crinkled at the corners. "There you are."

val-napier waking-up

Elizabeth Hoyt

7badb97

My mother always closes her bedroom drapes tight before going to bed at night. I open mine as wide as possible. I like to see everything, I say. What's there to see? Moon. Air. Sunrise. All that light on your face in the morning. Wakes you up. I like to wake up.

drapes light morning poem poetry sleeping waking-up

Anne Carson

9caca84

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

mornings piss throat waking-up

James S.A. Corey

109ba86

"I hated to interrupt her. I know how much a dream can be worth, but, alas... "Hello."

waking-up

Richard Brautigan