Waking Quotes
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Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle -
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
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Dreams - are well - but Waking's better, If One wake at Morn - If One wake at Midnight - better - Dreaming - of the Dawn.
Emily Dickinson -
At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.
Maya Angelou -
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 -
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 -
Such sober certainty of waking bliss.
John Milton -
[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
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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 -
If you are 26 years old and you're waking up under Star Wars sheets... the Force is not with you.
Gary Gulman -
The days of waking up and reading the overnight ratings are over.
Dawn Ostroff -
I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.
Will Self -
Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.
Thomas Nagel -
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
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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 -
I'm not used to waking up early at all.
Red Gerard -
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 -
I had to stop drinkin, cuz I got tired of waking up in my car driving ninety.
Richard Pryor -
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 -
A corpse is what's left after waking too often.
Cesare Pavese
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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 -
I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge.
Mitchell Baker -
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 -
There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.
Mindy Kaling