Waking Quotes

747 quotes by 639 authors

By his own will Christ was dependent on Mary during Advent: he was absolutely helpless; he could go nowhere but where she chose to take… — Caryll Houselander
When music sounds, gone is the earth I know, And all her lovelier things even lovelier grow; Her flowers in vision flame, her forest trees… — Walter de La Mare
Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep,… — Anthony de Mello
Waking up each morning to a hysterical alarm clock on the bedside table. — Paulo Coelho
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
In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous images are created,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Its at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life… — Brian Aldiss
People can tolerate two homosexuals they see leaving together, but the next day they're smiling, holding hands, tenderly embracing one another, then they cannot be… — Michel Foucault
Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known… — Philip K. Dick
It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain hours of the… — Antonin Artaud
Harder than waking from a nightmare was trying to wake herself into one. — Nathan Englander
The poems in Katherine Soniat's new collection, The Swing Girl, weave emotion's 'spray going farther than thought' with the 'bedrock things' of the trod-upon world.… — Kathryn Stripling Byer
Working was a new thing; waking up early in the morning and going to bed late at night... But Iâ€™ve met a lot of nice… — Barbara Palvin
Hope is a waking dream.' I let the words echo in my head. The quote reminded me of that feeling you get when you start… — Jennifer Rush
I got everything I need right here with me. I got air in my lungs, a few blank sheets of paper. I mean, I love… — Leonardo DiCaprio
It's better to wake up alone knowing that you're alone, than waking up with someone and still be lonely — Liv Ullmann
I think sleep's really important. I value it as much as waking up and having a full day. — Jena Malone
It's not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow. — Aimee Mann
The process of socialization is nowhere near complete at age five or six, when modern children start spending up to half their waking hours taking… — Quinn Cummings
Waking up in TRUTH is so much better than living in a lie. — Idris Elba

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