Waking Quotes - Page 14

• If I feel like crying, I'll just cry in a dream. Something I really try not to do in my waking hours. I like good melodrama because it's just an undumping of all these compulsions we feel that we work so hard to master during our waking hours. No wonder we crash to sleep in bed at night. We have to, otherwise we'd just spend our waking hours shredding the feelings from everybody else.

  Guy Maddin

  Dream, Sleep, Night

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I love just going out; long drives, the ocean, my kids, new music, new gear, new plug-ins, coffee, and donuts at four in the morning. Even just waking up and writing.

  John Feldmann

  Morning, Coffee, Ocean

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.

  Woody Allen

  Sleep, Hours, Enjoy

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• The perfect day is going to bed with a dream and waking up with a purpose.

  A. J. McLean

  Dream, Perfect Days, Bed

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

  Nhat Hanh

  Wake Up, Bed, Moments

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• Through dreams a door is opened to mythology, since myths are of the nature of dreams, and that, as dreams arise from an inward world unknown to waking consciousness, so do myths: so, indeed, does life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Doors, Doe

  Joseph Campbell, M. J. Abadie (1981). “The Mythic Image”, p.11, Princeton University Press

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• May we not then sometimes define insanity as an inability to distinguish which is the waking and which the sleeping life? We often dream without the least suspicion of unreality: 'Sleep hath its own world', and it is often as lifelike as the other.

  Lewis Carroll

  Dream, Sleep, Insanity

  Lewis Carroll, Edward Wakeling (1994). “Lewis Carroll's Diaries: Containing Journal 4, January to December 1856”

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• God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on.

  Socrates

  Communication, Mean, Sleep

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• Fischer was a good kid but very unsophisticated about anything but chess. It was all chess for him, every waking moment. We'd go down to the Four Continents bookstore and he'd buy any Russian chess material he could get his hands on. He'd learned enough Russian to get the gist of prose and he just absorbed the chess part.

  Ronald Gross

  Kids, Hands, Chess

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

  Paul Lowe

  Wake Up, Might, Seeing Yourself

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• I am not aware, however, that patients suffering from traumatic neurosis are much occupied in their waking lives with memories of their accident. Perhaps they are more concerned with not thinking of it.

  Sigmund Freud

  Memories, Thinking, Suffering

  Sigmund Freud (2015). “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• I think waking up in the middle of the night and seeing stuff in the dark and thinking it is something scary or demonic. When you first wake up and you see things and you're eyes aren't open and things aren't what they seem. That happened to me like three weeks ago!

  Daniel Jacobs

  Eye, Dark, Night

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• Every experience, waking or dream, has a lesson or message to impart to us.

  Harold Klemp

  Dream, Lessons, Messages

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

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Sleep, Shade

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• Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.

  Carl Jung

  Sleep, Imagination, Half

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• You have to remember that writing those sorta songs is not reality, it's more like trance, dream, y'know, like dreamwork. The mythical thing can enter the creating but there's the mythical place and the real place. And there's both...I get it between waking and sleeping. Or, when I'm doing something else. I don't sit down and think I'm gonna write about subject X or subject Y. I could be doing something and an impression comes in from outside and the song emerges out of that. It's never thought about or contrived.

  Van Morrison

  Dream, Song, Real

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• Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Firsts, Crime, Should

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.327, Penguin

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• 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.

  Robert J. Samuelson

  Groups, Analyzing, Financial

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• You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning.

  Paul Newman

  Morning, Looks, Wake Up

  "Paul Newman dies at 83". edition.cnn.com. September 27, 2008.

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• I spend twelve hours a week - a little over 10% of my waking hours - playing the game. Now I am trying to figure out how to get by on less sleep in order to fit in a few more hands.

  Warren Buffett

  Sleep, Hands, Order

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• There's this point between conscious and subconscious when you realize you were asleep and resting, and you were having all kinds of anxiety dreams about the film and all the things that can go wrong. You get in this hypnagogic state, where you're waking up and realizing, "Oh, it was just a dream."

  David Slade

  Dream, Anxiety, Wake Up

  Source: collider.com

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• I saw literature as a fantasy, no less absorbing for all its irrelevance - a parallel life, as dreams shadow waking but never intersect it.

  Edmund White

  Dream, Irrelevance, Shadow

  Edmund White (2016). “A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic”, p.34, Pan Macmillan

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

  Cesare Pavese

  Corpses, Left

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• The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather like that of an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while the prison that restrains and shelters him catches fire, not waking but incorporating the crackling and warmth of the fire with ancient and incongruous dreams, than like that of a man consciously awake to danger and opportunity.

  H. G. Wells

  Dream, Opportunity, Men

  H.G. Wells (2015). “A Short History of the World”, p.229, Xist Publishing

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• It's important to leave your face without makeup for a while after waking up...Let your skin breathe a while before applying your makeup, even if it means waking up a bit earlier.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Mean, Makeup, Important

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