Waking Quotes

747 quotes by 594 authors

But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading… — Jack London
I saw my town as if I had just arrived. It was as if I was waking up. You see houses and buildings every day,… — Gary D. Schmidt
The secret is not to dream," she whispered. "The secret is to wake up. Waking up is harder. I have woken up and I am… — Terry Pratchett
Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to settle, to… — Jonathan Lethem
Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot… — Thornton Wilder
Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear — Jacqueline Carey
I still cry on waking. I'm not sure why. I feel nothing. Nothing I can name, anyway. It's like breathing - something that happens over… — Mary E. Pearson
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
About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particularly strong impression on you during the day,… — Boris Pasternak
Although she had resisted this knowledge all her life, had lived determinedly in the future focused there by ambition, she understood at last that this… — Dean Koontz
He would have told her - he would have said, it matters not if you are here or there, for I see you before me… — Juliet Marillier
I am influenced by every second of my waking hour. — Lenny Bruce
Yet it is the narrative that is the life of the dream while the events themselves are often interchangeable. The events of the waking world… — Cormac McCarthy
If your eyes weren't open, you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking. — Richelle Mead
Dad has brought me a cup of tea in bed this morning! I said, 'Vati, why are you waking me up in the middle of… — Louise Rennison
But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled. It continues to wander, aimless, homeless, alone. It cannot be convinced of its safety by any evidence… — Margaret Atwood
A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound. — William Carlos Williams
A young woman, newly wed, may find herself in the delightful position of wanting to do nothing without the company of her darling husband. She… — Anna Godbersen
What is the purpose of writing music? One is, of course, not dealing with purposes but dealing with sounds. Or the answer must take the… — John Cage
Already the dream was coming apart, its bright silk strands unwinding into nebulous emotions, little coloured clouds of feeling being dispersed by the movement of… — Steven Hall

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