Waking Quotes

I still cry on waking. I'm not sure why. I feel nothing. Nothing I can name, anyway. It's like breathing - something that happens over which I have no control. (6)

Freedom is the moment between sleep and waking before selfhood and the world return.

The Beltway is waking up to the realities of Prsident Obam's budget plan, which taxes, spends, and borrows as far as the eye can see.

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

A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.

Human life is just dangerous, in general. You know, waking up in the morning, you could get hit by a car. Wherever you go, you could choke on a fish bone and die. You never know.

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.

I want to throw down your kid and stomp on his testicles, and then you will know what it is like to experience waking up everyday as me. And only then will you feel my pain.

So I’m into men now, even though they can be frightening. I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, non-Velcro-shoe-wearing man.

You could spend every waking moment online and still only experience one-trillionth of what's out there. I find that a little overwhelming.

I will try to be non-violent one more day this morning, waking the world away in the violent day.

Harder than waking from a nightmare was trying to wake herself into one.

At the moment of waking up, before getting out of bed, get in touch with your breath

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

But alas for the dreams that round us play! / For the plans of mortal making! / And alas for the false and fickle day / That looked so fair at waking!

My main goal now is waking up healthy every day and going on with life.

The divine injunction to be perfect, even as He is perfect, was not given man to mock him. The possibility of our waking in His likeness is literally true.

People are waking up in their homes - without conferences. They're waking up because life is waking them up, not because of some conference called "Body and Soul."

I remember having my tonsils out when I was fifteen and waking up crying historically but not being able to stop. That was quite strange.

Contrary to what you might think, I don't spend every waking hour thinking about boys." "Just most waking hours?

No, no, no, I don't snort no more, I'm tired of waking up on the floor. No thank you please, it only makes me sneeze, then it makes it hard to find the door.

To-morrow it seemLike the empty words of a dreamRemembered on waking.

At last awake from life, that insane dream we take for waking now.

In every waking hour a sacred theater is in session, played out before an audience that is largely blind.

The Waking Dark is about what happens when something awakens a towns darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world.

I did almost every job in the bank. It was real life, waking up in the morning, putting on a suit and tie and then having to go to work.

I wouldn't want to spend every waking hour asking people for money. A, I can't do it, it's just not my nature.

When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.

I can very much relate to waking up inside of your life and saying to yourself, "How did I get here?"

Experience in itself wasn’t enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I’d missed it.

the mysterious moment of death proves to be a moment of waking. How one longs to take it for one's self!

In a life where waking hours are draped in the costume of horrid nightmare, where reality has suddenly become questionable, it's easy to be scared by dreams.

Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.

Ani felt a stirring, a hope, a winged thing waking up in her chest and brushing her heart with it's feathers.

I thrive on being on the road, waking up in a different place every day and having my life revolve around music. When you walk out in front of 300,000 people and pull it off, it validates you.

Better to die, and sleep The never-waking sleep, than linger on And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.

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

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

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

In the dream state, the only essential difference from waking is the relative absence of sensory input, which makes dreaming a special case of perception without sensory input.

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

Imagine you waking up tomorrow and you can't get a bank account; you can't get a credit union account. Everything has gone away and you're now living in poverty.

Waking up to you is like... presents on Christmas morning." His mouth curved. "For your convenience, I'm already unwrapped. Batteries not required.

When we experience stress, the nervous system tries to control things. Part of waking up is discovering what we are beyond that controlling organism.

The noiseless din that we have long known in dreams, booms at us in waking hours from newspaper headlines.

If an actor ever says they really enjoy the auditioning process, I truly believe that they're lying. It's an anxiety-filled waking nightmare. It's awful.

There is nothing like waking up at six in the morning and changing a baby's nappy to bring you face to face with life's reality.

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?

Safe! safe! safe!' the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry 'Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

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