Waking Quotes
747 quotes by 594 authors
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He did not know which was more painful, the waking or the sleeping. When he slept, he dreamed: dark disturbing dreams of blood and broken…
— George R. R. Martin
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Still, waking up this early was just wrong. “Why can’t people be reasonable and only die after eleven A.M.?†I whined.
— Diana Rowland
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i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn't need to run to the mirror…
— James Dashner
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Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking…
— John Green
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The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours
— Eric Berne
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The next chamber is full of songbirds, if I remember right. Their music is like turtleweed. It will put you to sleep if you listen…
— Cinda Williams Chima
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In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed-- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, 'Good morning, God,' and the other is to say, 'Good God,…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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I believe in dreams. I believe that every night on the planet everything that is, was and can be is dreamt. I believe that what…
— Marilyn Manson
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so if you love him, why keep him waiting for 13 years?" "Because I was afraid. Afraid of not being worthy, afraid of not knowing…
— Guillaume Musso
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It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like spring…
— William Faulkner
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Dreams are imperfections of sleep; even so is consciousness the imperfection of waking. Dreams are impurities in the circulation of the blood; even so it's…
— Aleister Crowley
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A boy spends his time finding a girl to sleep with. A real man spends his time looking for the one worth waking up to.
— John F. Kennedy
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that's what it was like waking up in the crypts. no-longer-dead. but without her. like burning alive.
— Lauren Oliver
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Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world. The mind seeks but cannot…
— E. O. Wilson
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I am a stickler for good manners, and I believe that treating other people well is a lost art. In the workplace, at the dinner…
— Tim Gunn
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Yes.†She smiled, liking the word. “What I feel like right now—I’d compare it to waking from a dream and seeing the real world. It’s…
— Nalini Singh
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Waking up to you is like... presents on Christmas morning." His mouth curved. "For your convenience, I'm already unwrapped. Batteries not required.
— Sylvia Day
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There is a drowsy state, between sleeping and waking, when you dream more in five minutes with your eyes half open, and yourself half conscious…
— Charles Dickens
Who Wrote These Waking Quotes
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