Waking

Famous quotes containing the word waking:

    We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)

    Even the bravest that are slain
    Shall not dissemble their surprise
    On waking to find valor reign,
    Even as on earth, in paradise....
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.
    Louis Aragon (1897–1982)