Social Consciousness - Awakened

Famous quotes containing the word awakened:

“I was awakened at midnight by some heavy, low-flying bird, probably a loon, flapping by close over my head, along the shore. So, turning the other side of my half-clad body to the fire, I sought slumber again.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Had I but awakened from sleep
And called her name, she had heard
It may be, and had not stirred,
That now, it may be, has found
The horn’s sweet note and the tooth of the hound.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)