Waking Quotes - Page 5

• She knew she was lovely, and she shared it like a gift. Every smile from Agatha was like waking up to a perfect sunny day. Agatha knew it. And she smiled at everyone who crossed her path, as if it were the most generous thing she could offer.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Perfect, Lovely, Path

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.359, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born, Relieve my languish and restore the light; With dark forgetting of my care return. And let the day be time enough to mourn The shipwreck of my ill adventured youth: Let waking eyes suffice to wail their scorn Without the torment of the night's untruth.

  Samuel Daniel

  Brother, Time, Sleep

  'Sonnets to Delia' (1592) no. 54

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• All the time it's a changing
  And all the dreamers are waking.

  Kate Bush

  Time, Dreamer

  Song: Nocturn, Album: Aerial, 2005

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• We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his heart; to think about God is to begin to be good.

  George MacDonald

  God, Heart, Thinking

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.12931, Delphi Classics

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• Now I know surely and forever,
  However much I have blotted our
  Waking love, its memory is still
  there. And I know the web, the net,
  The blind and crippled bird. For then, for
  One brief instant it was not blind, nor
  Trapped, not crippled. For one heart beat the
  Heart was free and moved itself. O love,
  I who am lost and damned with words,
  Whose words are a business and an art,
  I have no words. These words, this poem, this
  Is all confusion and ignorance.
  But I know that coached by your sweet heart,
  My heart beat one free beat and sent
  Through all my flesh the blood of truth.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Life, Sweet, Art

  "She Is Away". Poem by Kenneth Rexroth. "In Defense of the Earth". Book by Kenneth Rexroth, www-personal.umich.edu. 1956.

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• There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Peace, Humanity, Dimensions

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• It is a horrible idea that there is somebody who owns us, who makes us, who supervises us - waking and sleeping - who knows our thoughts, who can convict us of thought crime, thought crime, just for what we think, who can judge us while we sleep for things that might occur to us in our dreams, who can create us sick, as apparently we are - and then order us, on pain of eternal torture to be well again.
  To demand this, to wish this to be true is to wish to live as an abject slave.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Dream, Pain, Sleep

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• I had to stop drinkin, cuz I got tired of waking up in my car driving ninety.

  Richard Pryor

  Funny, Drinking, Tired

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• No objects of value are worth risking the priceless experience of waking up one more day.

  Jack Smith

  Wisdom, Wake Up, Priceless

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• There are almost no limits to the discoveries of how the human brain operates in illness and health, in sleep and waking and dreaming, in calm and under tension. The question is how far man can put these discoveries to use without using them not for cure but for power.

  Max Lerner

  Dream, Sleep, Men

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• What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string tension of life snap? Would the heart over weighted with sudden joy stop beating for very excess of happiness?

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Heart, Joy

  Helen Keller, Annie Sullivan (1905). “The Story of My Life”

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• If you are trying to slip out without waking a sleeping man, zips are a nightmare. Haven't you ever tried to creep out of the room unnoticed the following morning? I've done that many times.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Fashion, Morning, Sleep

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• There are days in retirement that are the waking equivalent of a dreamless sleep, if you know what I mean.

  Robert Breault

  Retirement, Mean, Sleep

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• If you have a goal in life that takes a lot of energy, that requires a lot of work, that incurs a great deal of interest and that is a challenge to you, you will always look forward to waking up to see what the new day brings.

  Susan Polis Schutz

  Goal, New Day, Challenges

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• Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such cases are sometimes led to mistake a fancy for a fact. Geologists, in particular, have very frequently amused themselves in this way, and it is not a little amusing to follow them in their fancies and their waking dreams. Geology, indeed, in this view, may be called a romantic science.

  Granville Penn

  Dream, Mistake, Science

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• If you woo the company of the angels in your waking hours, they will be sure to come to you in your sleep.

  George D. Prentice

  Sleep, Angel, Hours

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• I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge.

  Mitchell Baker

  Revenge, Mean, Everyday

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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, Waking Life

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• I dedicated all the time I had to it. The 10 hour workout was just what I put in the magazine at the time, but for me it was every waking moment.

  Steve Vai

  Workout, Player, Guitar

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• Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it still there on waking up the next morning.

  Arnold Schoenberg

  Music, Morning, Fall

  Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.180, Univ of California Press

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• When music sounds, gone is the earth I know, And all her lovelier things even lovelier grow; Her flowers in vision flame, her forest trees Lift burdened branches, stilled with ecstasies. When music sounds, out of the water rise Naiads whose beauty dims my waking eyes, Rapt in strange dream burns each enchanted face, With solemn echoing stirs their dwelling-place. When music sounds, all that I was I am Ere to this haunt of brooding dust I came; And from Time's woods break into distant song The swift-winged hours, as I hasten along.

  Walter de La Mare

  Dream, Song, Flower

  Walter De la Mare (1902). “Down-adown-derry: A Book of Fairy Poems”, p.54, Library of Alexandria

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• Waking up each morning to a hysterical alarm clock on the bedside table.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Morning, Alarms

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• In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous images are created, but the setting and the whole picture are so truth-like and filled with details so delicate, so unexpectedly, but so artistically consistent, that the dreamer, were he an artist like Pushkin or Turgenev even, could never have invented them in the waking state. Such sick dreams always remain long in the memory and make a powerful impression on the overwrought and deranged nervous system.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Dream, Memories

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.46, 谷月社

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• People can tolerate two homosexuals they see leaving together, but the next day they're smiling, holding hands, tenderly embracing one another, then they cannot be forgiven. It is not the departure for pleasure that is unacceptable, it is waking up happy.

  Michel Foucault

  Hands, Two, Next Day

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• Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And-how many of us do know it? ... Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up. I suppose only a few are aware of all this. Isolated persons here and there. But the broad masses-what do they think? All these hundreds of thousands in this city, here. Do they imagine that they live in a sane world? Or do they guess, glimpse, the truth...?

  Philip K. Dick

  Depression, Thinking, Cities

  Philip K. Dick (2007). “Four novels of the 1960s”

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