Waking Quotes

• Hope is a waking dream.

  

  Aristotle
  • Hope
  • Dream
  • Waking

• Reality, as you currently experience it, is something like a waking dream. It is disguising deeper and more intensified levels of being and knowing. For those who are ready and willing, the doors to those other levels now stand open.

  

  Daniel Pinchbeck
  • Dream
  • Levels
  • Deeper

• At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Waking

• Dreams - are well - but Waking's better, If One wake at Morn - If One wake at Midnight - better - Dreaming - of the Dawn.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Dream
  • Dreams
  • Dawn

• I'm not used to waking up early at all.

  

  Red Gerard
  • Used
  • Early
  • Waking

• If you are 26 years old and you're waking up under Star Wars sheets... the Force is not with you.

  

  Gary Gulman
  • Waking
  • Sheets
  • Under

• May we feel after Thee; still calling out in the darkness, as children waking in the night call "Father," so may we call out for God; and, at times, even if we do not hear Thy voice, may there be the form of a hand resting upon us, and that shall be enough; for we shall take hold of it, though it be in the dark, and it shall guide us to the growing light; for the day shall come, and the release and triumph.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • God
  • Children
  • Father

• I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, picture-hanging man. I don't care if he takes prescription drugs for cholesterol or hair loss.

  

  Mindy Kaling
  • Waking
  • Prescription
  • Cholesterol

• Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Life
  • Universe
  • Process

• Such sober certainty of waking bliss.

  

  John Milton
  • Bliss
  • Sober
  • Waking

• The days of waking up and reading the overnight ratings are over.

  

  Dawn Ostroff
  • Reading
  • Waking
  • Rating

• Sometimes I wish someone would invent a pill so David’d wake up one morning without autism, like someone waking from a long coma, and he’d say, “Jeez, Catherine, where have I been?

  

  Cynthia Lord
  • Autism
  • Invent
  • Coma

• Given that the dreaming brain must perform these remarkable contortions - creating a world, living in it, responding to it, and then carefully blocking all the responses in a manner that does not cross the threshold of awareness - it is no wonder that this dreaming brain seems to be more active than the waking brain.

  

  William C. Dement
  • Dream
  • Creating
  • Awareness

• the mysterious moment of death proves to be a moment of waking. How one longs to take it for one's self!

  

  Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Death
  • Waking

• [L]et light Rise from the chambers of the east, and bring The honey'd dew that cometh on waking day. O radiant morning.

  

  William Blake
  • Morning
  • Waking
  • Chambers

• I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge.

  

  Mitchell Baker
  • Everyday
  • Revenge
  • About

• I had to stop drinkin, cuz I got tired of waking up in my car driving ninety.

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Funny
  • Car
  • Tired

• I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.

  

  Will Self
  • Writing
  • Firsts
  • Stills

• But I cannot forget that, at other times I have been deceived in sleep by similar illusions; and, attentively considering those cases, I perceive so clearly that there exist no certain marks by which the state of waking can ever be distinguished from sleep, that I feel greatly astonished; and in amazement I almost persuade myself that I am now dreaming.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Sleep
  • Forget
  • Dreaming

• World In Flames' is pretty powerful to me, it's about waking up in the middle of the night, the whole world has ignited into flames, and I'm there alone. And it's kind of like a fear of dying alone and the whole world is burning.

  

  Maria Brink
  • World
  • Night
  • Powerful

• In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Life
  • Dreams
  • Waking

• The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything.

  

  Richard Linklater
  • Dream
  • Possibility
  • Infinite

• I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Fear
  • Learning
  • Sleep

• There's nothing better on Christmas morning than waking up to the smell of breakfast!

  

  Rachel Hollis
  • Morning
  • Christmas
  • Breakfast

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