„Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.“

„What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up.“

—  Sue Monk Kidd, libro La vita segreta delle api

„What are you, Rose Hathaway? Are you real? You're a dream within a dream. I'm afraid touching you will make me wake up. You'll disappear.“

—  Richelle Mead, libro Spirit Bound

„I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.“

—  Richard Ford, The Sportswriter

„Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.“

—  Ned Vizzini, libro It's Kind of a Funny Story

„When you graduate from college, they tell you to follow your dreams. Does anyone say you have to wake up first?“

—  Bill Cosby American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist 1937

„The secret is not to dream," she whispered. "The secret is to wake up. Waking up is harder. I have woken up and I am real. I know where I come from and I know where I'm going. You cannot fool me any more. Or touch me. Or anything that is mine.“

—  Terry Pratchett, libro The Wee Free Men

„That’s the nice thing about dreams, the way you wake up before you fall.“

—  Marya Hornbacher, libro Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

„The Fastest way to make you dream come true is to wake up!“

—  Preity Zinta film actress 1975

„Some dreams are best not to wake up from.“

—  Hiroo Onoda Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer 1922 - 2014

„If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died, the dream was over, you woke up. That's what people meant when they talked about going to heaven. It was like waking up.“

—  Ian McEwan, libro L'inventore di sogni

„Be careful what you wear to bed, because you never know where you might wake up.“

—  Ridley Pearson American writer 1953

„Love's an illusion. It's a dream you wake up from with an enormous hangover and net credit debt. I'd rather have cash.“

—  Janet Fitch, libro White Oleander

„If you even dream of beating me, you'd better wake up and apologize.“

—  Muhammad Ali African American boxer, philanthropist and activist 1942 - 2016

„I wanna be a shower in the morning
That wakes you up and makes you clean
I know I'm just the weather against your window
As you sleep through a winter's dream“

—  Conor Oberst American musician 1980

„It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. When you have something like a nightmare, you will wake up and tell yourself that it was only a dream. It is said that the world we live in is not a bit different from this.“

—  Tsunetomo Yamamoto, libro Hagakure

„If you still want to keep dreaming, then go back to sleep. But if you want to succeed then wake up and act.“

—  Mwanandeke Kindembo 1996

„Desire for embodied existence is the root-cause of trouble. (…) Desire leads to experience. Experience leads to discrimination, detachment, self-knowledge –liberation. And what is liberation after all? To know that you are beyond birth and death. By forgetting who you are and imagining yourself a mortal creature, you created so much trouble for yourself that you have to wake up, like from a bad dream. Enquiry also wakes you up. You need not wait for suffering; enquiry into happiness is better, for the mind is in harmony and peace.“

—  Nisargadatta Maharaj Indian guru 1897 - 1981

„Everything is an illusion; that is the whole thing about it - illusion, immitation, a mirage. It makes me too sad. Its having like a good dream, you know you are going to wake up.“

—  Francesca Lia Block American children's writer 1962

„If your eyes weren't open, you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking.“

—  Richelle Mead, Blood Promise