Awaken Quotes 

Father in Heaven, whenthethoughtof Thee wakesinour hearts, let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.
Share

More Awaken Quotes 

Settle it therefore in your minds, as a maxim never to be effaced or forgotten, that atheism is an inhuman, bloody, ferocious system, equally hostile to every useful restraint and to every virtuous affection; that, leaving nothing above us to excite awe, nor round us to awaken tenderness, it wages war with heaven and with earth: its first object is to dethrone God, its next to destroy man.

robert hall

— Rev. Robert Hall, sermon to Baptist meeting, Cambridge, quoted in Charles George Sommers, William R. Williams, Levi L. Hill, ed (1843). The Baptist Library: a republication of standard Baptist works. 2. p. 108. 

Tags: Settle, minds, maxim, never, effaced, forgotten, atheism, inhuman, bloody

Share
twitter

Lifeless in appearance, sluggish dazed spring approaches — They enter the new world naked, cold, uncertain of all save that they enter. All about them The cold, familiar wind — Now the grass, tomorrow the stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf One by one objects are defined — It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf But now the stark dignity of entrance — Still, the profound change has come upon them: rooted, they grip down and begin to awaken.

william carlos williams

— "Spring and All"

Tags: Lifeless, appearance, sluggish, dazed, spring, approaches, enter, new, world

Share
twitter

One by one the objects are defined It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf But now the stark dignity of entranceStill, the profound change has come upon them: rooted, they grip down and begin to awaken.

william carlos williams

— 1923  Spring and All,'Spring and All'.

Tags: One, objects, defined, quickens, clarity, outline, leaf, now, stark

Share
twitter

We have revolutionary thought whenever the feeling "life is a dream" becomes geared to an impulse to awaken from it.

Northrop Frye

— Chapter Four, p. 83

Tags: We, revolutionary, thought, whenever, feeling, life, dream, geared, impulse

Share
twitter

Either we will sink into a final coma and end it all or, as I trust and believe, we will awaken to the truth of our peril, a truth as great as life itself, and, like a person who has swallowed a lethal poison but shakes off his stupor at the last moment and vomits the poison up, we will break through the layers of our denials, put aside our fainthearted excuses, and rise up to cleanse the earth of nuclear weapons.


— "The Choice," The Fate of the Earth (1982)

Tags: we, sink, final, coma, end, trust, believe, truth, our

Share
twitter

A perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to a deeply mysterious understanding; and by this understanding you will awaken to the truth.

huangbo xiyun

— The Wan Ling Record of Xiu Pei, quoted in Why Lazarus Laughed : The Essential Doctrine, Zen — Advaita — Tantra (2003) by Wei Wu Wei

Tags: perception, sudden, blinking, subject, object, one, lead, deeply, mysterious

Share
twitter

Perhaps we'd understood each other too well to be attracted to one another. There were no occlusions in communication, those breaks in understanding that awaken desire.

Edmund White

— "Texas" (p. 128)

Tags: understood, other, attracted, one, another, There, communication, breaks, understanding

Share
twitter

That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox.

jorge luis borges

— Evaristo Carriego (1930) Ch. 2

Tags: one, individual, another, memories, belong, third, obvious, paradox

Share
twitter

Life is more than thought: what a man feels, and what his senses awaken in him, are more indispensable to his life’s fullness than subsequent reflection on their significance. Both Stirner and Nietzsche have elaborated Faust’s opening speech in which he bemoans his wasted years in academia: this speech is Goethe’s own impeachment of Kant and Hegel . Philosophy proceeds always under the risk of making a fetish of thinking.

john carroll

— p. 105 (Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974))

Tags: Life, more, thought, what, man, feels, senses, him, indispensable

Share
twitter

Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it.

johann georg hamann

— Briefwechsel, ed. Arthur Henkel (1955-1975), vol. VII, p. 165

Tags: belief, reason, pure, relations, dealt, things, scholastic, concepts, signs

Share
twitter

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?

david hilbert

— Quoted in Mathematical Mysteries : The Beauty and Magic of Numbers (1999) by Calvin C. Clawson, p. 258

Tags: after, having, slept, thousand, years, first, question, Riemann, hypothesis

Share
twitter

When we dead awaken. ... We see that we have never lived.

henrik ibsen

— Irene, in Act II

Tags: When, we, dead, see, never, lived

Share
twitter

Seraphim, The lost hosts awaken

james joyce

— Nightpiece, p. 17

Tags: lost, hosts

Share
twitter

How would your life be different if … You didn't allow yourself to be defined by your past? Let today be the day … You stop letting your history interfere with your destiny and awaken to the opportunity to release your greatest self.

steve maraboli

— p. 125 (Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010))

Tags: life, different, You, allow, yourself, defined, past, today, day

Share
twitter

There are some men whom a staggering emotional shock, so far from making them mental invalids for life, seems, on the other hand, to awaken, to galvanize, to arouse into an almost incredible activity of soul.

william mcfee

— "On a Balcony", First lines, in The Atlantic Monthly (January 1920), p. 27

Tags: There, men, staggering, emotional, shock, far, making, mental, invalids

Share
twitter

From childhood's hour I have not been As others were I have not seen As others saw I could not bring My passions from a common spring From the same source I have not taken My sorrow I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone And all I lov'd I lov'd alone

edgar allan poe

— "Alone", l. 1-8 (written 1829, published 1875).

Tags: childhood's, hour, been, others, seen, saw, passions, common, spring

Share
twitter

If you say to someone who has ears to hear: "What you are doing to me is not just," you may touch and awaken at its source the spirit of attention and love. But it is not the same with words like, "I have the right..." or "you have no right to..." They evoke a latent war and awaken the spirit of contention.

Simone Weil

— Human Personality (1943, pg. 63)

Tags: you, someone, who, ears, hear, What, doing, me, may

Share
twitter

Among the many advantages: Parable attract, and when fully understood are sure to be remembered...; Parables greatly help the mind and thinking faculty...; Parables stir up, or excite the affections , and awaken consciences as when hell in parable is set up as a furnace of fire , and conscience by a gnawing worm; Parables arrest and hold attention ...; Parables preserve the truth ...And mere words are constantly changing their meaning, whereas the symbols of life and nature , as such as our Lord used in His parables, are as abiding as nature and life themselves.


— In pp.17-18 (All the Parables of the Bible)

Tags: advantages, Parable, attract, when, fully, understood, remembered, Parables, greatly

Share
twitter

Jaspers sees the historical meaning of existential philosophy as a struggle to awaken in the individual the possibilities of an authentic and genuine life, in the face of the great modern drift toward a standardized mass society.


— Chapter Two, The Encounter With Nothingness, p. 28

Tags: sees, historical, meaning, existential, philosophy, struggle, individual, possibilities, authentic

Share
twitter

A perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to a deeply mysterious understanding; and by this understanding you will awaken to the truth.


— The Wan Ling Record of Xiu Pei, quoted in Why Lazarus Laughed : The Essential Doctrine, Zen — Advaita — Tantra (2003) by Wei Wu Wei

Tags: perception, sudden, blinking, subject, object, one, lead, deeply, mysterious

Share
twitter

Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the astronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning.


— Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Terre des Hommes (1939)

Tags: Nobody, grasped, you, shoulder, while, there, time, Now, clay

Share
twitter

The heritage, the culture, the knowledge of the ancient priestesses, healers, poets, singers, and seers were nearly lost, but a seed survived the flames that will blossom in a new age into thousands of flowers. The long sleep of Mother Goddess is ended. May She awaken in each of our hearts Merry meet, merry part, and blessed be.

starhawk

— As quoted in Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion (1979) by Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow.

Tags: heritage, culture, knowledge, ancient, priestesses, healers, poets, singers, seers

Share
twitter

I adjure you, o daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up nor awaken love until it please.


— The Bible, Song of Solomon 8:4.

Tags: adjure, you, daughters, Jerusalem, stir, love

Share
twitter

Be careful how you touch her, for she'll awaken, And sleep's the only freedom that she knows.


— Skylark, "Wildflower", Skylark (1972)

Tags: careful, you, touch, she'll, freedom

Share
twitter

We celebrate the past to awaken the future.


— John F. Kennedy, "Remarks at the 25th Anniversary of the Signing of the Social Security Act," Hyde Park, New York August 14, 1960, box 910, Senate Speech Files, John F. Kennedy Papers, Pre-Presidential Papers, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library.

Tags: We, celebrate, past, future

Share
twitter

Now I shall truly awaken again.... This too is destiny....


— Who: The Dragon God
— Notes: The character, long before the battle in which the player kills it, had been absorbed by the Time Devourer, the game's villain. It speaks of being fully consumed and allowing the Time Devourer to awaken so that the player may face it.

Tags: Now, again, destiny

Share
twitter

Things will change and the masses will awaken to the realisation that no one, no political Party or governmental clique must be permitted in the future to monopolise the Revolution, to control or direct it, for such attempts inevitably result in the death of the Revolution itself … Kropotkin particularly emphasised the constructive side of revolutions, and especially that the organisation of the economic life must be dealt with as the first and greatest necessity of a revolution, as the foundation of its existence and development.


— Alexander Berkman, in "Some Reminiscences of Kropotkin"

Tags: Things, change, masses, realisation, one, political, Party, governmental, clique

Share
twitter

He who dreamed of democracy , far back in a world of absolutism, was indeed heroic , and we of today awaken to the wonder of his dream .


— Louis Sullivan, in "Education" an address to the Architectural League of America, Toronto (1902), later published in Kindergarten Chats (revised 1918) and Other Writings (1947)

Tags: who, dreamed, democracy, far, world, absolutism, indeed, heroic, we

Share
twitter

The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.

bob marley

— The Future is the Beginning: The Words and Wisdom of Bob Marley

Tags: biggest, coward, man, love, woman, intention, loving, her

Share
twitter
  • 1
  • 2
  • »
  • Menu
  • Dictionary
    • Dictionary
    • YD Original
    • Webster's
    • American Heritage
    • Wiktionary
    • Ologies
    • Computer
    • Invest
    • Law
  • Thesaurus
  • Examples
    • See in a sentence
    • Example articles
  • Quotes
    • Famous Quotes
    • Quote Articles
  • Flash Cards
  • Spanish
    • Spanish-English Translation
    • Reference
  • Reference
    • Education
    • ESL
    • Grammar
    • Abbreviations
    • Biography
    • Books & Literature
    • Examples
    • Foreign Languages
    • Resources
    • Slideshows
  • Word Finder
    • Word Finder
    • 4 Pics 1 Word Answers
    • Word Game Dictionary
    • Unscramble
    • Words With Friends Cheat
Share
  • Menu
  • Dictionary
    • Dictionary
    • YD Original
    • Webster's
    • American Heritage
    • Wiktionary
    • Ologies
    • Computer
    • Invest
    • Law
  • Thesaurus
  • Examples
    • See in a sentence
    • Example articles
  • Quotes
    • Famous Quotes
    • Quote Articles
  • Flash Cards
  • Spanish
    • Spanish-English Translation
    • Reference
  • Reference
    • Education
    • ESL
    • Grammar
    • Abbreviations
    • Biography
    • Books & Literature
    • Examples
    • Foreign Languages
    • Resources
    • Slideshows
  • Word Finder
    • Word Finder
    • 4 Pics 1 Word Answers
    • Word Game Dictionary
    • Unscramble
    • Words With Friends Cheat
Share
  • Home
  • Quotes
  • awaken quotes

Follow YourDictionary

Join YourDictionary today

Create and save customized flash cards. Sign up today and start improving your vocabulary!

Please set a username for yourself.
People will see it as Author Name with your public flash cards.