Born Quote by Alan Watts Download Open image “What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born.” — Alan Watts ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Born Gone Sleep Wake up
What you people who weren't yet born can never know is what it meant to sleep in cities under silent falls of snow when… — Timothy Findley Copy Share Image
I didn't want to go to sleep knowing I would just wake up in the morning. — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for thousands of years. Or just not exist.. — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
I imagined a life that turned out to be pretty much exactly like the one I've had. That fascinates me endlessly. I wake up… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I was born in the south of France, I moved to Paris 30 years ago. I was running nightclubs and restaurants, so that was… — Patrick Seguin Copy Share Image
I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
It never dawned on me to be born I just awoke to the fact one day. My first orgasm was a similar experience. — Jules Carlysle Copy Share Image
“The self-conscious feedback mechanism of the cortex allows us the hallucination that we are two souls in one body -a rational soul and an… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The more we try to catch hold of the present moment the more elusive it becomes. It is like trying to clutch water in… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“As you make more and more powerful microscopic instruments, the universe has to get smaller and smaller in order to escape the investigation. Just… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant pantheon buildings. — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I know that in the rap game you've got a lot of people, that come from poverty, was born in poverty and if it… — Jon Connor Copy Share Image
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Must I go bound while you go free Must I love a manwho doesn't love me Must I be born with so little art… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way. — Manny Pacquiao Copy Share Image
For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies. — Bret Harte Copy Share Image