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"Unawakened" Quotes from Famous Books

... enforced rules, do most to put boys into possession of themselves, and to provide a wise outlet for their abundant energies. Consider then what happens so long as we continue to send boys out of school at the age of fourteen. They go with minds unawakened and therefore empty. They face adolescence in almost complete freedom from control. They very often have far too little opportunity for invigorating games, and they do not know how to express themselves, ...

— Men, Women, and God • A. Herbert Gray

... a heap of things about our joys, but some of them are best left quiet, unawakened. All coarse, common pleasure would frighten them ...

— Letters of a Soldier - 1914-1915 • Anonymous

... its own sake. But we have no faith; we do not love war and we know nothing about it. Yet men fight and die believing neither in the cause of God nor in the great justice; men who do not love war, and who die none the less with their faces to the enemy.... Many, unawakened, go to their deaths without thinking; but others die with anguish in their hearts, anguish at the futile sacrifice and at their realisation ...

— The Forerunners • Romain Rolland

... streets to the churchyard; had noted how in any circle of friends now one and now another falls away and returns to earth. I knew that all must die, that I must die myself, as I knew a lesson got by heart which has little meaning to the unawakened ear. But now it came on me with such a stabbing knowledge that for a little while I was almost crazy with the ...

— Marjorie • Justin Huntly McCarthy

Words linked to "Unawakened" : awakened, asleep