Waking Quotes - Page 8

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

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Morning, Alarms

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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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• The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Real, Sleep

  Stephen King (2016). “Rose Madder”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• I wish I were whole. I wish I could have given you youngs, if you'd wanted them and I could conceive them. I wish I could have told you it killed me when you thought I had been with anyone else. I wish I had spent the last year waking up every night and telling you I loved you. I wish I had mated you properly the evening you came back to me from the dead.

  J.R. Ward

  Night, Years, Wish

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• "Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls."

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Philosophical, Soul, Wake Up

  "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Book by Gabriel García Márquez, 1967.

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• If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died, the dream was over, you woke up. That's what people meant when they talked about going to heaven. It was like waking up.

  Ian Mcewan

  Dream, Simple, People

  Ian McEwan (1996). “The daydreamer”

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• Hope is a waking dream.' I let the words echo in my head. The quote reminded me of that feeling you get when you start to wake from a dream you don't want to leave. That crushing sensation in the center of your chest, like you are losing an important piece of yourself you won't ever get back.

  Jennifer Rush

  Crush, Dream, Echoes

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• I can't imagine any greater fear
  Than waking up without you here
  And though the sun would still shine on
  My whole world would all be gone

  Sara Evans

  Mean, Shine On, Shining

  Song: No Place That Far

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• My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of billion light-years beyond?

  Vikram Seth

  Couple, Eye, Light

  Vikram Seth (1999). “An Equal Music”, p.86, Penguin Books India

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• How is it to be explained that something inside me revolts against the playing of obvious moves? Perhaps we may perceive the underlying reason in the fact that I derive satisfaction from seeking to reveal the concealed meaning of a position by means of maneuvering play and therefore I do not wish to see this satisfaction curtailed by a banal, more or less fortuitous decision. Naturally, this phenomenon is played out beneath the threshold of consciousness. The waking consciousness will, of course, in each individual case, give preference to the more rapid means of deciding the game.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Moving, Mean, Games

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• The mystery of life--its inexplicability, beauty, cruelty, tenderness, folly . . . has occupied the greater part of my waking thoughts; and in reverence or rage or irony, as the moment or situation might dictate, I have pondered and even demanded of cosmic energy to know Why.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Energy, Might, Irony

  Theodore Dreiser (1977). “Theodore Dreiser: a selection of uncollected prose”, Wayne State Univ Pr

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• Cinema is a technologically mediated dreamspace, a way to access, a portal to the numinous that unfolded in the fourth dimension, so cinema became sort of a waking dream where we can travel in space and time, where we can travel in mind. This became more than virtual reality, this became a real virtuality.

  Jason Silva

  Dream, Real, Space

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• What is this precious love and laughter budding in our hearts? It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up!

  Hafez

  Laughter, Heart, Soul

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• In an ideal world no one would talk before 10am. People would just hug, because waking up is really hard.

  Zooey Deschanel

  People, Hug, Wake Up

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• It feels great to wake up feeling healthy, awake and alert. I love waking up in the morning, taking a
  deep breath, reading the newspaper and going to the gym - as opposed to carrying a hangover right
  until lunch. That's horrible. It is nice to let off steam once in a while, but I find myself less involved with
  people in that sense. I like staying at home, reading a book, having a chat with my wife, a quiet dinner
  and going to bed early. I don't want to drink half a bottle of whisky and look 50 the next day. I have
  become an anti-drinking, anti-smoking agent.

  Saif Ali Khan

  Morning, Nice, Reading

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• Sometimes the best ideas I have are in my bathtub or in my bed or in my dreams early in the morning before waking up ... I'm like a TV antennae, I catch it all and do it my way.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Dream, Morning, Hate

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• If you really love guitar, you're going to spend every waking hour stroking the thing.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Inspiring, Guitar

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• Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Sleep, Entrepreneur, Strange

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)”, p.1647, Delphi Classics

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• Our traditions have been waking up on Christmas morning and feasting on a southern breakfast. I'm from the South. We eat grits and biscuits and gravy and eggs with Ritz crackers and country ham, bacon, you name it. - Leigh

  Leigh-Allyn Baker

  Christmas, Country, Morning

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• Father of rosy day, No more thy clouds of incense rise; But waking flow'rs, At morning hours, Give out their sweets to meet thee in the skies.

  Thomas Hood

  Sweet, Morning, Father

  Thomas Hood (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)”, p.299, Delphi Classics

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• Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music:--do I wake or sleep?

  John Keats

  Dream, Sleep, Past

  'Ode to a Nightingale' (1820) st. 8

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• I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry, Whence this excess of joy? What has befallen me? And from within a thrilling voice replies, Thou art in Rome! A thousand busy thoughts Rush on my mind, a thousand images; And I spring up as girt to run a race!

  Samuel Rogers

  Running, Morning, Art

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.70

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• Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, morn of toil, nor night of waking.

  Walter Scott

  Sleep, Night, Toil

  Sir Walter Scott (1833). “The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations”, p.444

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• The grass is waking in the ground, / Soon it will rise and blow in waves - / How can it have the heart to sway / Over the graves, / New graves?

  Sara Teasdale

  Grief, Heart, Blow

  Sara Teasdale (1915). “Rivers to the Sea”

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• A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts.

  Gertrude Stein

  Dream, Sleep, Night

  Gertrude Stein, Richard Kostelanetz (2002). “The Gertrude Stein Reader: The Great American Pioneer of Avant-garde Letters”, p.84, Rowman & Littlefield

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