Wake Up may refer to:
- Emerge from sleep
Famous quotes related to wake up:
“The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can’t wake up.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“I don’t want to express alienation. It isn’t what I feel. I’m interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“‘Have we any control over being born?,’ my friend asked in despair. ‘No, the job is done for us while we’re sleeping, so to speak, and when we wake up everything is all set. We merely appear, like an ornate celebrity wheeled out in a wheelchair.’ ‘I don’t remember,’ my friend claimed. ‘No need to,’ I said: ‘what need have us free-loaders for any special alertness? We’re done for.’”
—Marvin Cohen, U.S. author and humorist. The Self-Devoted Friend, New Directions (1967)