Waking Quotes

747 quotes by 594 authors

I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's… — Laurell K. Hamilton
Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness… — Jeanette Winterson
But the most dangerous thing in the world in the world is to run the risk of waking up one morning and realizing suddenly that… — Kinky Friedman
It was a good hald minute before I looked over at Todd. his eyes were slightly foggy, like he was waking up- reluctantly- from a… — Lisa Kleypas
From daydreams on the road there was no waking. He plodded on. He could remember everything of her save her scent. Seated in a theatre… — Cormac McCarthy
And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like… — Cormac McCarthy
In his dream she was sick and he cared for her. The dream bore the look of sacrifice but he thought differently. He did not… — Cormac McCarthy
What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return. — Cormac McCarthy
It's about waking up. A child wakes up over and over again, and notices that she's living. She dreams along, loving the exuberant life of… — Annie Dillard
To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I… — William S. Burroughs
Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often… — William H. Gass
There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing. You lie there entirely… — Terry Pratchett
Making something secret makes it too important, elevates it to the point where it runs your life from the shadows. If you hide what's at… — Michael Marshall Smith
Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or joys, But the… — John Clare
Waking consciousness is dreaming â€“ but dreaming constrained by external reality — Oliver Sacks
All of us--all who knew her--felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. Her… — Toni Morrison
I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, revealing to my charmed sight what may not bless my waking eyes. — Anne Bronte
Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up… — Ian Fleming
Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at… — Nhat Hanh
I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are? — Henry David Thoreau

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