“In an effort to become, if not a morning person, at least a getting-out-of-bed-and-staying-there type of person, I spent seven days trying the most unconventional wake-up tips I found on the internet.”— Erin Mayer, manrepeller.com
“I have some unsolicited work (life?) advice, which is that if you don’t know how to deal with a problem, or a whole host of problems, try getting up obscenely early.”— Edith Zimmerman, thecut.com
“Al: [after waking up from his 'coma'] Did you fuck me when I was out? Dan: Hell, no. Al: Then quit looking at me like that.”— Victoria Morrow, Al Swearengen, Ian McShane, imdb.com
“There’s no word to describe the feeling of waking up and knowing instantly that something is terribly wrong.”— Daniel Handler, imdb.com
“Ryan, if you worked last night and I was telling you to get up right now you know what you'd be doing?”— Maci Bookout, imdb.com
“Hurley Reyes: Hi. You awake? Sayid Jarrah: I was just wondering that myself.”— David Fury, Brent Fletcher, Sayid Jarrah, Naveen Andrews, imdb.com
“It is remarkable that when you wake up in the morning you nearly always find everything in exactly the same place as the evening before. For when asleep and dreaming you are, apparently at least, in an essentially different state from that of wakefulness; and therefore . . . it requires enormous pre…”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“You were the sun, and I was crashing into you. I’d wake up in the morning and think, ‘This will end in flames.”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com
“We rest. — A dream has power to poison sleep; We rise. — One wandering thought pollutes the day; We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep; Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away: It is the same! — For, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free: Man's yesterday may ne'er be lik…”— Percy Bysshe Shelley, en.wikiquote.org
“Happiness is waking up, looking at the clock and finding that you still have two hours left to sleep.”— Charles M. Schulz, goodreads.com
“One summer night I fell asleep, hoping the world would be different when I awoke.”— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, amazon.com
“But the pleasant thing is to wake early, throw open the window, and lie reading in bed.”— Edward Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“You can go for years and years and years repeating the same pattern and one day wake up and think I can't do this to myself ever again.”— starsmoonandsun, twitter.com
“Waking up is not a one-time event. Waking up is a practice. Waking up is a commitment that continues for a lifetime.”— Chani Nicholas, chaninicholas.com
“Even when you try desperately to sleep past sunrise like the rest of your generation, you simply cannot. It doesn’t matter if you’ve only gotten three hours of snoozing in, you’re up and at ‘em in the wee hours – always.”— Karen Wathen, thoughtcatalog.com
“The best remedy to waking up early is two shots of Espresso and a new life.”— Josh Peck, twitter.com
“The wake up kiss. (Can't be too squeamish about morning breath.) Gently wake your spouse up with a kiss... or two... or three.”— Sheree Adams, blackandmarriedwithkids.com
“Some friends don’t understand this. They don’t understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I support you just the way you are because you’re wonderful just the way you are. They don’t understand that I can’t remember anyone ever saying that to me. I am so demanding and difficul…”— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com
“I didn’t want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that’s really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you’re so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”— Ned Vizzini, amazon.com