Quotes of Waking - somelinesforyou

“ In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping. ”

- Mary Wilson Little

“ I woke at intervals until... the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not. ”

- Annie Dillard

“ We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming. ”

- Novalis

“ I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are? ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man. ”

- Pliny the Elder

“ We are close to waking up when we dream that we are dreaming. ”

- Novalis

“ Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death. ”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

“ 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. ”

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

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

- Elise Boulding

“ One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing. ”

- Bo Bennett

“ Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile. ”

- Soren Kierkegaard

“ The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts. ”

- Henry Miller

“ Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep. ”

- Michel de Montaigne

“ A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace. ”

- Walter de la Mare

“ I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar. ”

- Ted Nugent

“ How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? ”

- Plato

“ I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one. ”

- Elizabeth Janeway

“ Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you're waking up to instant stress. You shouldn't be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it's time to start your day. ”

- Sharon Gold

“ The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more. ”

- Woody Allen

“ In waking a tiger, use a long stick. ”

- Mao Tse Tung

“ Hope is a waking dream. ”

- Aristotle

“ Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or a Shakespeare. ”

- H.F. Hedge

“ Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare. ”

- Francis Herbert Hedge

“ Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little dearth. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ Every waking moments we talk to ourselves about the things we experience. Our self-talk, the thoughts we communicate to ourselves, in turn control the way we feel and act. ”

- John Lembo

“ These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms. ”

- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

“ Hope is the dream of a waking man. ”

- Aristotle

“ How can you prove if we are currently sleeping and our thoughts are a dream, or if we are awake and talking to each other in the waking state? ”

- Jules Renard
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