Waking Life Quotes

• 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 was the common room we shared.

  Laurie Lee

  Years, Kitchen, Growing

  Laurie Lee (1959). “The edge of day: a boyhood in the west of England”

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• The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure, while always arriving.

  Richard Linklater

  Ideas, Arriving, Departure

  "Fictional character: Boat Car Guy". "Waking Life", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• The ride does not require an explanation, just participants.

  Sonny Barger

  Doe, Explanation, Participants

  FaceBook post by Sonny Barger from Oct 24, 2015

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• Life is one big road with lots of signs,
  So when you riding through the ruts,
  Don't you complicate your mind
  Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy
  Don't bury your thoughts; put your vision to reality.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Song: 'Wake Up and Live!'". 1979.

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• I don't know about you, but I call impromptu vomiting harm.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Atheist, Sin City, Vomiting

  Karen Marie Moning (2006). “Darkfever: Fever Series”, p.82, Delacorte Press

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• The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything.

  Richard Linklater

  Dream, Waking, Infinite

  "Fictional character: Guy Forsyth". "Waking Life", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• What are these barriers that keep people from reaching anywhere near their real potential? The answer to that can be found in another question and that's this: Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?

  Louis Mackey

  Real, People, Waking

  "Waking Life". www.imdb.com. January 23, 2001.

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• If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.

  Rene Magritte

  Dream, Art, Life Is

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• What a bunch of garbage, liberal, Democratic, conservative, Republican, it's all there to control you, two sides of the same coin! Two management teams, bidding for control of the CEO job of Slavery Incorporated!

  Alex Jones

  Jobs, Team, Two Sides

  "Fictional character: Alex Jones". "Waking Life", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.

  Barbara Walters

  Atheist, Equal Pay, Sin City

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• Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?

  Louis Mackey

  Laziness, Characteristics, Humans

  "Waking Life". www.imdb.com. January 23, 2001.

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• Know what you are talking about.

  Pope John Paul II

  Knowledge, Knowing Jesus, Talking

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• Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Suicide, Devil, Care

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• Know what you're talking about.

  George H. W. Bush

  Knowing Jesus, Talking, Scary

  George H.W. Bush (2013). “All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• Art is thus materialized dream, separated from the ordinary consciousness of waking life

  Pavel Florensky

  Dream, Art, Ordinary

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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 never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house, apartment or hotel room. ... Am I alien? Alien from what exactly? Perhaps my home is my dream city, more real than my waking life precisely because it has no relation to waking life.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dream, Real, Home

  "Strange cats" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 1995.

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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. Your choices will affect, not only yourself and those closest to you, but in some way the whole world.

  Laurence Boldt

  Decisions You Make, Careers, People

  Laurence G. Boldt (1999). “Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design”, p.218, Penguin

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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 psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Waking, Technique

  Sigmund Freud (2010). “The Interpretation of Dreams”, p.35, Basic Books

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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 the influence of repressed or other unconscious complexes.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Sleep, Fantasy

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• Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Doe, Way

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Bernard Williams, Josefine Nauckhoff (2001). “Nietzsche: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.146, Cambridge University Press

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• I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not. I am, however, quite certain that I am having certain experiences, whether they be those of a dream or those of waking life.

  Bertrand Russell

  Dream, Believe, Certain

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Value”, p.186, Routledge

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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 images, the soul is fed in contemplation by the essences of the highest realm, knowing the permanent noumena of things. Then, satiated with this knowing, it descends again to the earthly realm. And precisely at the boundary between the two worlds, the soul’s spiritual knowledge assumes the shapes of symbolic imagery: and it is these images that make permanent the work of art. Art is thus materialized dream, separated from the ordinary consciousness of waking life.

  Pavel Florensky

  Dream, Spiritual, Art

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

  Alice Hoffman

  Sorrow, Waking, Life Is

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

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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 required is withdrawal of the soul from the tumult of sensory life.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Dream, Strong, Soul

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• But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled. It continues to wander, aimless, homeless, alone. It cannot be convinced of its safety by any evidence drawn from my waking life.

  Margaret Atwood

  Dream, Self, Safety

  Margaret Atwood (2008). “Moral Disorder and Other Stories”, p.87, Anchor

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