#awake

Butch sighed in relief. "Listen, man, do me a favor. Warn me before you pull another stunt like that. I'd rather choose." Then he smiled a little. "And we still ain't dating." V laughed in a short burst. "Go to sleep, roomie. You can kick my ass for this later." "I will ↗

— J.R. Ward

#butch #lover-awakened #vishous #dating

There is life, and there is death, and in between there is me. Please don’t wake me up. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#awareness #death #life #sleep #wake

Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but at the right time God awakened us, and here we are to comfort you. ↗

— Edward Payson Roe

#death

In dreams you can become everything you're not. You can reverse the most fundamental truths of your life. You can taste death, the ultimate opposite. ↗

— Robin Wasserman

#lia-kahn #shattered #death

To die in a battle is often referred to as a heroic act, but I will never understand that. What glory is there in bleeding to death in agony on the battlefield? I have no intention of dying at the hands of my enemy. ↗

— Peter Koevari

#death

Rise up to wise up. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#quotes-to-live-by #rise #wisdom-quotes #death

We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake. ↗

— Diogenes Laertius

#dreams #dreams

I had a dream I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep. ↗

— Stan Laurel

#dream #sleep #dreams

I was terrified as only grown men and women can be when they wake in the middle of the night and begin to realize, in the absolute silence and solitude all around them, that it is not only their dream that has woken them, that it is their whole way of life. ↗

— M. Ageyev

#dreams #realizations #dreams

Even if you have not awakened, if you realize that your perceptions and activities are all like dreams and you view them with detachment, not giving rise to grasping and rejecting discrimination, then this is virtually tantamount to awakening from the dream. ↗

— Muso Kokushi

#enlightenment #perception #dreams