Waking Quotes - Page 10

• He said “woman” in the same way I’d say “Mmmmm, yummy chocolate” after waking up from hunger pains and finding a Hershey bar in an empty refrigerator.

  Ilona Andrews

  Pain, Yummy, Chocolate

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.45, Penguin

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• I do know it, my own. Let me tell ye in your sleep how much I love you. For there's no so much I can be saying to ye while ye wake, but the same poor words, again and again. While ye sleep in my arms, I can say things to ye that would be daft and silly waking, and your dreams will know the truth of them. Go back to sleep, mo duinne.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Dream, Silly, Love You

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn”, p.2022, Delacorte Press

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• 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

  Dream, Sleep, Forget

  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

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• I love you, too... I won't ever leave you again. I promise. I kept that promise. For love him I did. For nearly two years I spent almost every waking hour with him. Until he was taken from me. But I never left him. And I never will.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Love You, Taken, Years

  Jennifer Donnelly (2010). “Revolution”, p.246, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Count up the almonds, Count what was bitter and kept you waking, Count me in too: I sought your eye when you glanced up and no one would see you, I spun that secret thread Where the dew you mused on Slid down to pitchers Tended by a word that reached no one’s heart. There you first fully entered the name that is yours, you stepped to yourself on steady feet, the hammers swung free in the belfry of your silence, things overheard thrust through to you, what’s dead put it’s arm around you too, and the three of you walked through the evening. Render me bitter. Number me among the almonds

  Paul Celan

  Heart, Eye, Names

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• Rose once told me about this poem she’d read. There was this line, ‘If your eyes weren’t open, you wouldn’t know the difference between dreaming and waking.’ You know what I’m afraid of? That someday, even with my eyes open, I still won’t know.

  Richelle Mead

  Dream, Eye, Differences

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.189, Penguin

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• I'm so tired after dinner I fall asleep with my clothes on, almost as soon as my head hits the pillow, and so I forget to ask God, in my prayers, to keep me from waking up.

  Lauren Oliver

  Prayer, Fall, Tired

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Hana: A Delirium Short Story”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• He did not know which was more painful, the waking or the sleeping. When he slept, he dreamed: dark disturbing dreams of blood and broken promises. When he woke, there was nothing to do but think, and his waking thoughts were worse than nightmares.

  George R. R. Martin

  Dream, Sleep, Dark

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.527, Bantam

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• 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

  People, Wake Up, Eleven

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

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• Have you slept yet?' 'Sure. I took a power nap on the way over.' 'Didn't you drive there?' 'Yeah. Other drviers kept waking me up. Car horns should be illegal.' - Charley & Cookie

  Darynda Jones

  Naps, Waking Me Up, Car

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• i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone

  James Dashner

  Love, Break Up, Running

  James Dashner (2015). “The Scorch Trials Movie Tie-in Edition (Maze Runner, Book Two)”, p.35, Delacorte Press

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• Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention.

  John Green

  Hurt, Pain, Attention

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.97, Penguin UK

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• The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours

  Eric Berne

  Problem, Hours, Structure

  Eric Berne (1977). “Games people play: the psychology of human relationships”

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• The next chamber is full of songbirds, if I remember right. Their music is like turtleweed. It will put you to sleep if you listen to it. They sleep most of the time, so the best thing is to pass through without waking them up. If they do awaken, then you must sing loud enough to drown out their music." "Great," Han said. "Whose idea was that?" "It seemed like a good idea at the time," Crow said. "I was an excellent singer.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Sleep, Ideas, Bird

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• There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, 'Good morning, God,' and the other is to say, 'Good God, morning'!

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Good Morning, Two, Morning Inspirational

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• I believe in dreams. I believe that every night on the planet everything that is, was and can be is dreamt. I believe that what happens in dreams is no different no less important than what happens in the waking world. I believe that dreams are the closest equvalent present-day mankind has to trime travel.

  Marilyn Manson

  Dream, Believe, Night

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• so if you love him, why keep him waiting for 13 years?" "Because I was afraid. Afraid of not being worthy, afraid of not knowing how to love him, afraid of waking up one day and not loving him anymore.

  Guillaume Musso

  Years, Knowing, Waiting

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• It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like spring water. He breathes deep and slow, feeling with each breath himself diffuse in the natural grayness, becoming one with loneliness and quiet that has never known fury or despair. "That was all I wanted," he thinks, in a quiet and slow amazement. "That was all, for thirty years. That didn't seem to be a whole lot to ask in thirty years.

  William Faulkner

  Lonely, Loneliness, Spring

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• Dreams are imperfections of sleep; even so is consciousness the imperfection of waking. Dreams are impurities in the circulation of the blood; even so it's consciousness a disorder of life. Dreams are without proportion, without good sense, without truth; so also is consciousness. Awake from dream, the truth is known: awake from waking. The truth is: The Unknown

  Aleister Crowley

  Dream, Sleep, Blood

  Aleister Crowley (1913). “Liber CCCXXXIII [i.e. Trecentesimus Tricesimus Tertius]: The Book of Lies, which is Also Falsely Called, Breaks : the Wanderings Or Falsifications of the One Thought of Frater Perdurabo, which Thought is Itself Untrue”

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• A boy spends his time finding a girl to sleep with. A real man spends his time looking for the one worth waking up to.

  John F. Kennedy

  Girl, Real, Sleep

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• that's what it was like waking up in the crypts. no-longer-dead. but without her. like burning alive.

  Lauren Oliver

  Wake Up, Burning, Alive

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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, Waking Life, Doe

  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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• Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world. The mind seeks but cannot find the precise place and hour. We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. We thrash about. We are terribly confused by the mere fact of our existence, and a danger to ourselves and to the rest of life.

  E. O. Wilson

  Stars, Confused, Real

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• I am a stickler for good manners, and I believe that treating other people well is a lost art. In the workplace, at the dinner table, and walking down the street--we are confronted with choices on how to treat people nearly every waking moment. Over time these choices define who we are and whether we have a lot of friends and allies or none.

  Tim Gunn

  Art, Believe, People

  "Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work". Book by Tim Gunn, abcnews.go.com. September 7, 2010.

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• Solitude is used to teach us how to live with other people. Rage is used to show us the infinite value of peace. Boredom is used to underline the importance of adventure & spontaneity. Silence is used to teach us to use words responsibly. Tiredness is used so that we can understand the value of waking up. Illness is used to underline the blessing of good health. Fire is used to teach us about water. Earth is used so that we can understand the value of air. Death is used to show us the importance of life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Adventure, Blessing, Air

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