Waking Quotes - Page 4

I do not sleep to let others sleep in the shade of my waking.

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

Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.

Dreams and waking life are both the same kinds of things. The difference is that dreaming is perceiving free of external constraints, whereas perceiving otherwise is dreaming true. Meaning what you dream about actually happens.

The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations.

Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest

Waking up is seeing yourself just as you are, not as you would like to be nor as you are afraid you might be.

The best thoughts most often come in the morning after waking, while still in bed or while walking.

Such sober certainty of waking bliss.

A corpse is what's left after waking too often.

It was really like waking up one morning and going, Wow, I enjoy being with this person more than anybody else in my life, and it just turned out to be mutual.

I used to - my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I've always heard kind of melodies in my head.

Premie' re approximation: j'e cris pour de truire, en les de crivant avec pre cision, des monstres nocturnes qui menacent d'envahir ma vie e veille e. First general point: I write to destroy, by describing exactly the nocturnal monsters that threaten to invade my waking life.

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

One intriguing subplot of the economic crisis is the failure of most economists to predict it. Here we have the most spectacular economic and financial crisis in decades - possibly since the Great Depression - and the one group that spends most of its waking hours analyzing the economy basically missed it.

I'm certainly not a person who spends their every waking moment soaking themselves in signs and signals of the sort that cult studies people study; and it's partly, I suppose, because some of those signs and signals aren't worth bothering about. You have to be selective about these things.

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

Waking up and having a project to work on is one of life's great pleasures.

You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.

We are not just humans learning to become buddhas, but also buddhas waking up in human form, learning to become fully human.

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

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.

When we dream, we create. All of life is a dream or a series of waking dreams. We dream our surroundings. We dream our friends, our relations. We dream our bodies. We dream our dreams.

I heard how people sounded when their dreams were shattered, when their lives were turned into a waking nightmare.

Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.