Waking Quotes - Page 24

• 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.

  Bono

  Memories, Wake Up, Kind

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• I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man...is above all the plaything of his memory.

  Andre Breton

  Dream, Memories, Men

  "First Manifesto of Surrealism". Book by Andre Breton, 1924.

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• Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma. Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch.

  Bill Bryson

  Years, Land, Long

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• What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing bore describing their emotions in real time every waking hour.

  Julie Burchill

  Crush, Real, Intelligent

  "What I know about men". www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2007.

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• I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was very young. I guess I was about 6 years old at the time, and I was fascinated by television. I started having waking fantasies where I was in a movie and there were crane shots of me during a scene.

  Nicolas Cage

  Years, Television, Actors

  "Interview with Nicolas Cage from 'G-Force'". Interview with Julie Bonner, www.alloy.com. December 8, 2009.

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• I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.

  Annie Dillard

  Years, Would Be, Wake Up

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.16, Canongate Books

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• For me the greatest revenge of all is having a happy adulthood, waking up in my gorgeous turquoise bedroom in the morning beside a person who really inspires me. That's the best revenge a girl-loving-girl from the Bible belt could possibly have. And, importantly, it's healthy.

  Beth Ditto

  Girl, Morning, Revenge

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2007.

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• Realizing I was gay was a long sort of waking up.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Gay, Long, Wake Up

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• My own belief is that most people are trying to do their best. It doesn't mean they have no nasty side, or that they don't have a bad temper, or that they have never done anything they feel ashamed of. But fiction operates on people waking up trying to be horrible, and I don't think most people are trying to be horrible.

  Julian Fellowes

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

  Margaret Fuller

  Dream, Reality, Wake Up

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe”, p.112, tredition

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• My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Grief, Sleep, Heart

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• Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.

  Jackie Gleason

  Dream, Creativity, Waking Life

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• 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.

  Brian Austin Green

  Morning, Wow, Wake Up

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• Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.

  Zaha Hadid

  Beach, Perfect Days, Wake Up

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• To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house, apartment or hotel room. ... Am I alien? Alien from what exactly? Perhaps my home is my dream city, more real than my waking life precisely because it has no relation to waking life.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dream, Real, Home

  "Strange cats" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 1995.

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• Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house

  William H. Gass

  Dream, Psychosis, House

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• There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing. You lie there entirely empty of thought, except for a growing suspicion that heading towards you, like a sockful of damp sand in a nocturnal alleyway, are all the recollections you'd really rather do without, and which amount to the fact that the only mitigating factor in your horrible future is the certainty that it will be quite short.

  Terry Pratchett

  Lying, Mind, Facts

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• If your eyes weren't open, you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking.

  Richelle Mead

  Dream, Eye, Differences

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.189, Penguin

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• Dad has brought me a cup of tea in bed this morning! I said, 'Vati, why are you waking me up in the middle of the night? Are you on fire?

  Louise Rennison

  Morning, Dad, Night

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• But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled. It continues to wander, aimless, homeless, alone. It cannot be convinced of its safety by any evidence drawn from my waking life.

  Margaret Atwood

  Dream, Self, Safety

  Margaret Atwood (2008). “Moral Disorder and Other Stories”, p.87, Anchor

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• A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound.

  William Carlos Williams

  Song, Bed, Sound

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• A young woman, newly wed, may find herself in the delightful position of wanting to do nothing without the company of her darling husband. She may indeed discover that she spends all her waking hours with her fellow to the exclusion of every other friend or family member. This is understandable, but wholly unacceptable, to society.

  Anna Godbersen

  Husband, May, Exclusion

  Anna Godbersen (2009). “Envy”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• What is the purpose of writing music? One is, of course, not dealing with purposes but dealing with sounds. Or the answer must take the form of a paradox: a purposeful purposeless or a purposeless play. This play, however, is an affirmation of life--not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we’re living, which is so excellent once one gets one’s mind and one’s desires out of its way and lets it act of its own accord.

  John Cage

  Writing, Order, Play

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• Already the dream was coming apart, its bright silk strands unwinding into nebulous emotions, little coloured clouds of feeling being dispersed by the movement of my waking-up mind. This is how it's always been with Light Bulb Fragment dreams; by the time I'm fully awake, they're gone.

  Steven Hall

  Dream, Clouds, Light

  Steven Hall (2005). “The Raw Shark Texts”, p.177, Canongate Books

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• He said “woman” in the same way I’d say “Mmmmm, yummy chocolate” after waking up from hunger pains and finding a Hershey bar in an empty refrigerator.

  Ilona Andrews

  Pain, Yummy, Chocolate

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.45, Penguin

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