Waking Quotes - Page 13

• A law which excludes all dialectic and all reconciliation; which establishes, consequently, both the flawless unity of knowledge and the uncompromising division of tragic existence; it rules over a world without twilight, which knows no effusion, nor the attenuated cares of lyricism; everything must be either waking or dream, truth or darkness, the light of being or the nothingness of shadow.

  Michel Foucault

  Dream, Twilight, Law

  "Madness and Civilization". Book by Michel Foucault, trans. by R. Howard, 1988.

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

  Theodor Adorno

  Dream, Long, Hours

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.49, Verso

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• Because waking I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdities of my waking thoughts, I am well satisfied that being awake, I know I dream not; though when I dream, I think myself awake.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Dream, Thinking, Awake

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.102

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• If a baby really has no awareness of himself and is totally thing-directed and at the same time all his states of mind are projected onto things, our second paradox makes sense: on the one hand, thought in babies can be viewed as pure accommodation or exploratory movements, but on the other this very same thought is only one, long, completely autistic waking dream.

  Jean Piaget

  Dream, Baby, Hands

  "The First Year of Life of the Child". Book by Jean Piaget, "The Egocentrism of the Child and the Solipsism of the Baby", translated by Howard E. Gruber and J. Jacques Vonèche, 1927.

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• Beyond the smiling and the weeping,
  I shall be soon;
  Beyond the waking and the sleeping,
  Beyond the sowing and the reaping,
  I shall be soon!
  Love, rest, and home--
  Sweet hope! Lord, tarry not, but come!

  Horatius Bonar

  Sweet, Home, Sleep

  Horatius Bonar (1857). “Hymns of faith and hope”, p.57

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• Ten years dropped from a man's life are no small loss; ten years of manhood, of household happiness and care; ten years of honest labor, of conscious enjoyment of sunshine and outdoor beauty; ten years of grateful life--one day looking forward to all this; the next, waking to find them passed, and a blank.

  Mary Mapes Dodge

  Grateful, Sunshine, Loss

  Mary Mapes Dodge (1866). “Hans Brinker: Or, The Silver Skates, a Story of Life in Holland”, p.262

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• Far, far away, there is a beautiful Country which no human eye has ever seen in waking hours. Under the Sunset it lies, where the distant horizon bounds the day, and where the clouds, splendid with light and colour, give a promise of the glory and beauty which encompass it. Sometimes it is given to us to see it in dreams.

  Bram Stoker

  Beautiful, Dream, Country

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Under the Sunset: And Other Stories”, p.4, The Floating Press

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• A psychiatrist who professes to be a healer of souls, but who keeps people asleep, treats them for waking up, and drugs them asleep again (increasingly effectively as this field of technology sharpens its weapons), helps to drive them crazy.

  R. D. Laing

  Crazy, Technology, People

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• Freud believed that our dreams sometimes recapitulate a speech, a comment we've heard or something that we've read. I always had compositions in my dreams. They would be a joke, a piece of a novel, a witticism or a piece of dialogue from a play, and I would dream them. I would actually express them line by line in the dream. Sometimes after waking up I would remember a snatch or two and write them down. There's something in me that just wants to create dialogue.

  David Mamet

  Dream, Writing, Play

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• You are going around on the wheel again and again. You go around and around from lifetime to lifetime. You never quite wake up. Enlightenment is waking up.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Suffering, Enlightenment

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• We imagine that waking-life is real and that dream-life is unreal, but there does not seem to be any evidence for this belief.

  Wei Wu Wei

  Life, Dream, Real

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• I'm the type of person who is always going to be somewhat dissatisfied with myself. I'm never going to be smart enough. I'm never going to be a good enough father and husband. I'm never going to be a good enough actor for myself. I just never will be, and I have to get comfortable with waking up every day and trying to move some little increment closer to the person I have always dreamed of being. This is the journey.

  Will Smith

  Husband, Father, Smart

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.

  Novalis

  Philosophy, Kind, Consciousness

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.155, SUNY Press

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• Waking up every day and coming to the ballpark and playing baseball ... that's a good feeling.

  Jason Heyward

  Baseball, Feelings, Wake Up

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• Once we truly understand that our waking experience is dreamlike,
  we no longer have to treat life as a serious problem.

  Tarthang Tulku

  Serious, Problem, Treats

  Tarthang Tulku (1981). “Hidden mind of freedom”, Dharma Pub

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• 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.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dream, Night, Different

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• 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.

  Tony Blair

  Baby, Morning, Reality

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• When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like being able to pick the family I'm waking up to in the morning that's going to make this group effort to tell a story that applies to what's interesting to me at that stage in my life.

  Sean Penn

  Morning, People, Interesting

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• What good is this body? Let it go in helping others. Did not the Master preach until the very end? And shall I not do the same? I do not care a straw if the body goes. You cannot imagine how happy I am when I find earnest seekers after truth to talk to. In the work of waking up Atman in my fellow men I shall gladly die again and again!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Helping Others, Men, Let It Go

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• I don't like waking up. I feel like staying in bed usually, but I can't because I've got two kids standing next to my bed, just eager to live another day.

  Louis C. K.

  Kids, Two, Bed

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you are 26 years old and you're waking up under Star Wars sheets... the Force is not with you.

  Gary Gulman

  Stars, War, Years

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• Long ago you may have given up control of your brain and set it on autopilot either because it just felt like too much work. And it is work! But for me, this work was well worth it for the prospect of not waking up sad every day.

  Chris Hardwick

  Long Ago, Brain, Wake Up

  Chris Hardwick (2011). “The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)”, p.81, Penguin

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• I don't have maids or servants, and my husband and I love waking up early and going to the 24-hour supermarket when there is nobody else there.

  Dolly Parton

  Husband, Up Early, Wake Up

  "Country queen Dolly Parton insists she didn't have sex with anyone to become a star" by Kerry Harden, www.mirror.co.uk. April 27, 2014.

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• It is obviously possible that what we call waking life may only be an unusual and persistent nightmare.

  Bertrand Russell

  Waking Life, May, Nightmare

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• The most powerful thing that can happen in the place of prayer is that you yourself become the prayer. You leave the prayer room able as Jesus' hands and feet on earth. This is what it means to pray continually (without ceasing), to see with the eyes of Jesus and to hear with His ears with every waking moment.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Powerful, Prayer

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