Waking Life Quotes
26 quotes by 25 authors
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In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness, especially when under…
— Carl Jung
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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
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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
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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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One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is…
— Unknown Author
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The human soul, provided it is pure and strong enough, can contact the unseen in waking life as well as in dreams: all that is…
— Seyyed Hossein Nasr
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If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of…
— Johan Huizinga
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But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it…
— Laurie Lee
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Art is thus materialized dream, separated from the ordinary consciousness of waking life
— Pavel Florensky
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In creating a work of art, the psyche or soul of the artist ascends from the earthly realm into the heavenly. There, free of all…
— Pavel Florensky
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I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things…
— Tony Kushner
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We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall.
— Annie Dillard
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Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those…
— Jim Woodring
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Work and love these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled.
— George Santayana
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Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of…
— Jackie Gleason
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If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.
— Rene Magritte
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Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.
— Cormac McCarthy
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And yet, and yet, in these our ghostly lives, Half night, half day, half sleeping, half awake, How if our waking life, like that of…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Waking Life Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 26 Waking Life Quotes as follows: