100+ Waking Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False”, p.66, Oxford University Press

topic: Waking, Becoming, Wake Up

The great cognitive shift is an expansion of consciousness from the perspectival form contained in the lives of particular creatures to an objective, world-encompassing form that exists both individually and intersubjectively. It was originally a biological evolutionary process, and in our species it has become a collective cultural process as well. Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.

- Thomas Nagel

topic: Wake Up, World, Waking, Lengthy

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 you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about.

- Tony Kushner

source: "Tony Kushner: 'At first I was horrified'" by Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2011.

topic: Ideas, Theatre, Waking, Waking Life, Countenance

A good dream was something you clung to until the last moment before waking.

- Veronica Rossi

source: Veronica Rossi (2013). “Through The Ever Night: Number 2 in series”, p.75, Hachette UK

topic: Dream, Lasts, Waking, Good Dream

By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

- Virginia Woolf

topic: Dream, Waking, Life Is

Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read The hunter's waking thoughts.

- W. H. Auden

topic: Morning, Waking, Hunters, Hares

I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.

- Will Self

topic: Writing, Waking, Firsts

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.

- William Nicholson

topic: Sleep, Flow, Waking, I Pray, Change God

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

- Wislawa Szymborska

source: Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Map: Collected and Last Poems”, p.291, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Morning, World, Waking

If you're having trouble waking up for fajr, set your alarm to play Quran. It works!

- Yasmin Mogahed

topic: Play, Quran, Waking

For me, success to me is waking up and doing what you're doing every day, whatever that looks like to me.

- Chuck Harmony

source: Source: youknowigotsoul.com

topic: Looks, Wake Up, Waking

There's this point between conscious and subconscious when you realize you were asleep and resting, and you were having all kinds of anxiety dreams about the film and all the things that can go wrong. You get in this hypnagogic state, where you're waking up and realizing, "Oh, it was just a dream."

- David Slade

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Dream, Anxiety, Waking

The reader's impression is one of a dream - the only thing that's left upon waking is the memory of a melody at the end of a concert.

- Dumitru Tepeneag

topic: Dream, Memories, Waking

Having a kid made me realize, "I have to take care of this kid, but I can't have the luxury of dropping everything in the world and spending every waking moment with him. I've got to work."

- A.C. Newman

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Kids, Luxury, Waking

Early risers catch the world waking and see its true colors.

- Bernie Taupin

topic: Color, World, Waking, True Colors

Waking up is seeing yourself just as you are, not as you would like to be nor as you are afraid you might be.

- Paul Lowe

topic: Wake Up, Might, Waking, Seeing Yourself

One intriguing subplot of the economic crisis is the failure of most economists to predict it. Here we have the most spectacular economic and financial crisis in decades - possibly since the Great Depression - and the one group that spends most of its waking hours analyzing the economy basically missed it.

- Robert J. Samuelson

topic: Groups, Analyzing, Waking, Economic Crisis, Financial Crisis

Collect the power. Because our fear has power. And our fear is paralyzing, and our fear sets us off course. So it's about gathering and collecting that power, waking it up. And dedicating your life to honoring it.

- Rod Stryker

topic: Gathering, Waking, Collecting

Waking up and having a project to work on is one of life's great pleasures.

- Kelly Reichardt

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Wake Up, Waking, Pleasure

The best thoughts most often come in the morning after waking, while still in bed or while walking.

- Leo Tolstoy

source: Virginia Woolf, Samuel Solomonovitch Koteliansky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy (graf), Aleksandr Borisovich Golʹdenveĭzer (2006). “Translations from the Russian”

topic: Morning, Bed, Waking, Morning After

I would love to have the power to stop waking at 3 a.m. every night to check my e-mail.

- Stanley Bing

source: Source: www.omnivoracious.com

topic: Night, Mail, Waking

It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.

- Paul Newman

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Careers, Smoking, Waking, Booze

The simple truth of things is that bad dreams are far better than bad wakings.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2016). “Rose Madder”, p.423, Simon and Schuster

topic: Dream, Simple, Waking, Bad Dream

The dream didn't fade as dreams usually do upon waking.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (1999). “Bag of Bones”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

topic: Dream, Waking, Fades

When we dream, we create. All of life is a dream or a series of waking dreams. We dream our surroundings. We dream our friends, our relations. We dream our bodies. We dream our dreams.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Dream, Body, Waking

ll I can think about, every day, every waking minute since they drew Prim's name at the reaping, is how afraid I am.

- Suzanne Collins

source: Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.97, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Thinking, Names, Waking

Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.

- Alice Hoffman

source: Alice Hoffman (2011). “The Dovekeepers”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

topic: Sorrow, Waking Life, Waking

Hustle is waking up the day before you die and realising you gave it your all.

- Gary Vaynerchuk

topic: Hustle, Wake Up, Waking

I try not to have anything too much going on between waking up and getting to work. I like to just be really fresh when I sit down. I always have my best ideas, like, within five minutes of starting. And then the rest of the day is just kind of putting in time.

- Alison Bechdel

source: Source: www.progressive.org

topic: Ideas, Trying, Waking

Once we truly understand that our waking experience is dreamlike, we no longer have to treat life as a serious problem.

- Tarthang Tulku

source: Tarthang Tulku (1981). “Hidden mind of freedom”, Dharma Pub

topic: Waking, Serious, Problem

Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.

- George Eliot

source: George Eliot (2016). “Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus”, p.31, 谷月社

topic: Dream, Daylight, Waking

We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.

- Thomas Browne

source: 'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 2, sect. 12

topic: Sleep, House, Waking

Because waking I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdities of my waking thoughts, I am well satisfied that being awake, I know I dream not; though when I dream, I think myself awake.

- Thomas Hobbes

source: Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.102

topic: Dream, Thinking, Waking

Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.40, The Floating Press

topic: Sleep, Waking

Waking or sleeping, I see a wreck, And hear a cry from a reeling deck!

- John Greenleaf Whittier

source: John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.226

topic: Sleep, Wrecks, Waking

We still and always want waking.

- Annie Dillard

source: Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.86, Canongate Books

topic: Inspirational, Want, Waking

I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.

- Annie Dillard

source: Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.53, Canongate Books

topic: Waking, Scales, Awake

If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.

- John Locke

source: John Locke, Anthony Douglas Woozley (1964). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.563, Hayes Barton Press

topic: Dream, Men, Waking

But I cannot forget that, at other times I have been deceived in sleep by similar illusions; and, attentively considering those cases, I perceive so clearly that there exist no certain marks by which the state of waking can ever be distinguished from sleep, that I feel greatly astonished; and in amazement I almost persuade myself that I am now dreaming.

- Rene Descartes

source: Rene Descartes, Benedict de Spinoza, Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz (2011). “The Rationalists: Descartes: Discourse on Method & Meditations; Spinoza: Ethics; Leibniz: Monadolo gy & Discourse on Metaphysics”, p.114, Anchor

topic: Dream, Sleep, Waking

Such sober certainty of waking bliss.

- John Milton

source: 'Comus' (1637) l. 263

topic: Life, Waking, Sober

Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is.

- Robert A. Heinlein

source: Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.327, Penguin

topic: Firsts, Waking, Crime

Age is nothing; waking up is everything.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Age, Wake Up, Waking

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Waking, Wake Up, Knows

Looking at her is like waking up.

- Veronica Roth

source: Veronica Roth (2012). “Free Four: Tobias Tells the Divergent Knife-Throwing Scene”, p.6, Harper Collins

topic: Wake Up, Waking

There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.

- Desmond Tutu

topic: Waking, Pretending, Difficult

You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.

- Joseph Conrad

source: Joseph Conrad (2012). “Heart of Darkness: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.53, Penguin

topic: Sleep, Literature, Waking

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

source: Diana Rowland (2011). “My Life as a White Trash Zombie: A White Trash Zombie Novel”, p.45, Penguin

topic: People, Wake Up, Waking

Hold fast to your most indefinite, waking dream.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.92

topic: Dream, Ambition, Waking, Hold Fast

Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.

- Walter Scott

source: Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.652

topic: May, Waking, Strife

Nothing more exhilarating ... than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.

- Junot Diaz

topic: Simple, Saving, Waking

We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep; but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.

- Michel de Montaigne

source: Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

topic: Sleep, Clouds, Waking

The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own

- Heraclitus

topic: Sleep, World, Waking

If you're not spending every waking moment of your day radically rethinking the nature of the world-if you're not plotting every moment boiling the carcass of the old order-then you're wasting your day.

- Douglas Coupland

topic: Order, World, Waking, Rethinking

I used to - my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I've always heard kind of melodies in my head.

- Bono

topic: Memories, Waking, Wake Up

The habit of spending nearly every waking moment lost in thought leaves us at the mercy of whatever our thoughts happen to be. Meditation is a way of breaking this spell.

- Sam Harris