awoke quotes

So I awoke, and behold it was a dream.

-John Bunyan
  The Pilgrim's Progress, pt.1.

Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigenTr a« umen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt. When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

- Franz Kafka
  Metamorphosis, ch.1.

Late one morning, I awoke in the capital of a certain countryand found myselfnot changed overnight into a large brown beetle, nor feeling exactly on top of the worldmerely ready to go home.

-Takeshi Kaiko
  'The Crushed Pellet', in Five Thousand Runaways (translated by Cecilia Segawa Seigle).