„I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.“

— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into an enormous insect.“
— Franz Kafka
„Then such grief took possession of my soul that my heart was wrung, and I felt as though I were dying; and then . . . then I awoke.“
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
„I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends.“
— Jane Austen
„New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„For each new morning with its light,For rest and shelter of the night,For health and food, for love and friends,For everything Thy goodness sends.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson