#waking

Cry no tears for us, my friend.” I pry at her fingers, panicking to be released in fear that she may drag me into death with her. She croaks again, “Lend no aches to the dreams of yesterday.” From the corpse of Warren, his greyish gums smack from whatever goo has settled in his mouth, “Allow the tide sweep free the bay.” Then together they sing in zombie choir, “And home the ships sailing send. ↗

— Nathan Reese Maher

#cityspire #death #dreams #gothic #romance

i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone ↗

— James Dashner

#alone #breakup #broken #day #felt

Men all do about the same thing when they wake up. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#morning #waking-up #men

I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#american #american people #feeling #i #middle

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#birth #day #death #each #every

In waking a tiger, use a long stick. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#stick #tiger #use #waking

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#congratulate #death #dream #may #moment

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities. ↗

— James Allen

#acorn #angel #bird #dream #dreams

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#compared #dream #life #our #right

Your home should be your home. People shouldn't be allowed to use whatever crazy lenses they use to catch you waking up in the morning. ↗

— Sarah Chalke

#catch #crazy #home #lenses #morning