Rude Awakening Quotes (10 quotes)

“Don't hang out with people who are:
Ungrateful
Unhelpful
Unruly
Unkindly
Unloving
Unambitious
Unmotivated

or make you feel...
Uncomfortable”
― Germany Kent

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“Finally, it's not the lies we tell others that do the most damage, it's those we tell ourselves. From this all troubles rise.”
― Anthony McCarten

tags: breathrough, rude-awakening

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“They saw me. Milton's smile curled off his face like unsticky tape. And I knew immediately, I was a boy band, a boondoggle, born fool. He was going to pull a Danny Zuko in Grease when Sandy says hello to him in front of the T-Birds, a Mrs. Robinson when she tells Elaine she didn't seduce Benjamin, a Daisy when she chooses Tom with the disposition of a sour kiwi over Gatsby, a self-made man, a man engorged with dreams, who didn't mind throwing a pile of shirts around a room if he wanted too.

My heart landslided. My legs earthquaked.”
― Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics

tags: betrayal, cruelty, daisy-buchanan, denial, disappointment, embarrassment, grease, jay-gatsby, movies, nervous, pop-culture, rejection, rude, rude-awakening, teenagers, the-graduate, the-great-gatsby, tom-buchanan

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“She was dry. She was lying on something soft. She was wrapped in quilts. There was a star of light drifting above her, and a smell like a herb garden. Taggle was a long warmth stretched out at one side, his chin in her hand, his tail curled over her neck. She thought they might be in heaven.
Taggle farted.
Plain Kate coughed and sneezed. And then she really was awake.”
― Erin Bow

tags: comfort, comfortable, flatulence, rude-awakening, sleepy

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“I was woken by a shell-burst in the trench of sleep. Heart skipping, with eyes fighting light, my thoughts sprang up like a field of starlings startled by a farmer's gunshot, a thousand separate, autonomous specks that swirled into a single united black shape.”
― Will Wiles, Care of Wooden Floors

tags: depression, morning-thoughts, rude-awakening, sadness

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“It seems comfortable to sink down on a sofa in a corner, to look, to listen. Then it happens that two figures standing with their backs against the window appear against the branches of a spreading tree. With a shock of emotion one feels 'There are figures without features robed in beauty'. In the pause that follows while the ripples spread, the girl to whom one should be talking says to herself, 'He is old'. But she is wrong. It is not age; it is that a drop has fallen; another drop. Time has given the arrangement another shake. Out we creep from the arch of the currant leaves, out into a wider world. The true order of things – this is our perpetual illusion – is now apparent. Thus in a moment, in a drawing-room, our life adjusts itself to the majestic march of day across the sky.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: adaptation, beauty, life, life-happens, nature, order, real-world, rude-awakening

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“Johnny's Sh*temare by Stewart Stafford

Amber did sh*t in Johnny's bed,
She did it while he was sleeping,
Right by Johnny's head.

Stank awake on a mattress lumpy,
He saw what Amber had left him,
A hot, steaming grumpy.

Browned off, he leapt to his feet,
No dogs stained his manhood,
Or crapped on the sheet.

Now he's sued her for defamation,
And they call her Amber Turd,
For her reckless defecation.

© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

tags: amber-heard, amber-turd, dirty-joke, dogs, johnny-depp, poop, prank, rude-awakening, sleep, sleeping

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“I think that what the ‘woke’ culture needs is to be ‘woke.’ But then, that could be a very rude awakening.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: awakened, awakening, awareness, culture, liberal, progressive, regressive, rude-awakening, truth, woke

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“The hard core of egotism is difficult to dislodge except rudely. WIth its departure, the Divine finds at last an unobstructed channel. In vain It seeks to percolate through flinty hearts of selfishness.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

tags: awakening, ego, egoism, egotism, resistance, rude-awakening, spiritual-master, spiritual-masters

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“Good Morning Sinkhole by Stewart Stafford

Lucky birdshit on my window,
A split-second awakening,
Another landslide out of bed,
Flailing in duvet quicksand.

Clawing at the walls going down,
Assume precarious crab-walk position,
Straining every fibre to avoid collapsing,
Land ho! with a fingertip mattress grab.

Steadying myself, I drag my carcass up,
Shaky leg muscles gain some relief,
Retake Altar of Id with a drowning sweat,
Survive to face more nightmare carpet rides.

© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

tags: bed, funny-poetry, landslide, metaphor, modern-poetry, rude-awakening, sinkholes, sleep, slice-of-life, waking-up

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