Waking Quotes

747 quotes by 639 authors

Reality, as you currently experience it, is something like a waking dream. It is disguising deeper and more intensified levels of being and knowing. For… — Daniel Pinchbeck
All my life I've been pleasin' everyone but me, waking up in someone else's dream. — Faith Hill
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
My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of… — Vikram Seth
In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched… — Nikolai Gogol
How is it to be explained that something inside me revolts against the playing of obvious moves? Perhaps we may perceive the underlying reason in… — Aron Nimzowitsch
The mystery of life--its inexplicability, beauty, cruelty, tenderness, folly . . . has occupied the greater part of my waking thoughts; and in reverence or… — Theodore Dreiser
I want to throw down your kid and stomp on his testicles, and then you will know what it is like to experience waking up… — Mike Tyson
And what does it matter when light enters the room where a child sleeps and the waking mother, opening her eyes, wishes more than anything… — Mark Strand
And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world… — Don DeLillo
The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own — Heraclitus
To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to a sun-filled day. — Anne McCaffrey
There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a… — Sigmund Freud
Dream life, I realized, was only confusing when you were awake. It was from the perspective of waking life that dream life seemed fractured and… — Alex Garland
Waking was the most reliable part of a dream, as built into dreams as death is to life. You dream, you wake: you live, you… — Alex Garland
Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight. — George Eliot
Hell was waking up alone, the sheets wet with your tears and your seed, knowing the woman you had dreamed of would never come back… — Lisa Kleypas
How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking… — Plato
Spiritual leaders teach that waking up is a process, that it doesn't just happen once and for all, but must occur again and again when… — M. J. Ryan
The decisions you make about your work life are especially important, since most people spend more of their waking lives working than doing anything else.… — Laurence Boldt

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