Waking Life Quotes

26 quotes by 25 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Art is thus materialized dream, separated from the ordinary consciousness of waking life — Pavel Florensky
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
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
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
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
Work and love these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled. — George Santayana
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
If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream. — Rene Magritte
Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty. — Cormac McCarthy
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
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
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: