Waking The Dead Quotes

#1. Yeah, I know," he agreed. "It was a surprise," he admitted. "I mean, who the hell would have expected a ninety-seven-year-old man to just up and die?" Bill's dad had indeed been only three years from his one-hundredth birthday when he shocked everyone by waking up dead one morning.

Hope Jahren

#2. All my parents do is drink. They hate me. Do you know what it's like waking up every morning knowing you're not good enough? there are only two things wrong with me-everything I do and everything I say. They'll never be happy until I'm dead

Ben Mikaelsen

#3. Flickering lights
anonymous doors
my heart escaping in drips
i'm still waking up
but she's still sleeping
this ICU is
hotel for the dead

Maggie Stiefvater

#4. That's what it was like waking up in the crypts. no-longer-dead. but without her.
like burning alive.

Lauren Oliver

#5. Some people wake up fast. Some people wake up slow. I wake up dead.

John Marsden

#6. And having returned from the woods, we remember with regret its restfulness. For all creatures there are in place, hence at rest. In their most strenuous striving, sleeping and waking, dead and living, they are at rest. In the circle of the human we are weary with striving, and are without rest.

Wendell Berry

#7. Living's immediacy, you go full sail, you're in a fever of motion. Until it's safe and past and done and dead and you can say, like waking from a dream, "Yes I was happy then, yes now it's all over I can see I was happy then." Maybe that's the advantage of dying?

Joyce Carol Oates

#8. The dead in Nigeria are always waking up. When somebody dies there, they only seem to die for a little while,

Precious Williams

#9. Man, I hate waking up with a dead hooker.

Dan Henderson

#10. You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.

Joseph Conrad

#11. Some people wake up drowsy. Some people wake up energized. I wake up dead.

John Marsden

#12. Do I have to thank Colleen again? God, I'm so sick of thanking Colleen. Shit, she's so great, you know? Thank you, Colleen. You've made a circus out of our friendship. Filthy Muggle.

Tarryn Fisher

#13. I sandpapered the roof of my mouth with 3 bowls of Cap'n Crunch - had raw gobbets of mouth-beef dangling onto my tongue all day

Douglas Coupland

#14. I can't think of anything worse after a night of drinking than waking up next to someone and not being able to remember their name, or how you met, or why they're dead.

Laura Kightlinger

#15. I have slept with you all night long while the dark earth spins with the living and the dead, and on waking suddenly in the midst of the shadow my arm encircled your waist. Neither night nor sleep could separate us.

Pablo Neruda

#16. Every time you come in yelling that God damn "Rise and Shine!" "Rise and Shine!" I say to myself, "How lucky dead people are!

Tennessee Williams

#17. I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.

Maggie Smith

#18. Dreams on waking were like empty cocoons of moths or the split-open husks of milkweed pods, dead shells where life had briefly swirled in furious but fragile storm-systems.

Stephen King

#19. After enlightenment, the laundry.

Gautama Buddha

#20. A shrink once told me that an exception is a resentment waiting to be born.

John Verdon

#21. You only find complete unanimity in a cemetary.

Abel Aganbegyan

#22. Bryn," I murmured, twisting around to see his sleeping face steeped in the brightness of the day. I stroked my fingers down his cheek and ran my hands through his silky mane of black hair. I must be dead, I mused, for certainly waking up in Bryn's arms is heaven.

D.T. Dyllin

#23. The question is not at present, however, of removing mountains, a thing that will one day be simple to us, but of waking and rising from the dead now.

George MacDonald