Our Waking Quotes
19 quotes by 17 authors
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Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a…
— Walter de La Mare
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
— George Eliot
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And now good morrow to our waking souls, Which watch not one another out of fear; For love, all love of other sights controls, And…
— John Donne
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By and large, the Healing Dream is not the defender of our waking goals-material achievement, perfect romance, a modest niche in history-but an advocate-general for…
— Marc Ian Barasch
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People never hurt others in moments of personal strength and bravery, when they are feeling good about themselves, when they are strong and confident. If…
— Tim Wise
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New every morning is the love Our waking and uprising prove, Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life and power and thought.
— John Keble
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But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it…
— Laurie Lee
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I wondered what it does to each of us to spend the majority of our waking hours doings things we'd rather not do, wishing we…
— Derrick Jensen
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall.
— Annie Dillard
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Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.
— Cormac McCarthy
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We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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And yet, and yet, in these our ghostly lives, Half night, half day, half sleeping, half awake, How if our waking life, like that of…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world…
— William Ralph Inge
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Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.
— Alice Hoffman
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For all the sophistication of a world in which most of our waking hours are spent consuming or interacting with media, we have scarcely advanced…
— Tom Chatfield
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The world that we live in is full of distractions and pleasures that pull us away from a spiritual life. Even our jobs which are…
— Michael Huffington
Who Wrote These Our Waking Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 19 Our Waking Quotes as follows: