Waking Quotes
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Father in Heaven, whenthethoughtof Thee wakesinour 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.
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More Waking Quotes
Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. Evening is like old age: we are languid, talkative, silly. 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 death.
Arthur Schopenhauer— Vol. 2, Ch. 2 : Our Relation To Ourselves
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, morn of toil, nor night of waking.
walter scott— Walter Scott, Lady of the Lake (1810), Canto I, Stanza 31.
Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er, Dream of fighting fields no more: Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Morn of toil, nor night of waking.
walter scott— Walter Scott, Lady of the Lake (1810), Canto I, Stanza 31.
A dreamer he was, and ever would be. Yet dreaming need not injure us, if it do but take its turn with waking; and even dreams themselves may be turned to beauty, by favoured men to whom nature has given the powers of casting them into form.
james anthony froude— Arthur's commentary
It was impossible to get a decent meal, or even snack, anywhere, burned flapjacks and vulcanized steaks being as appetizing as things got. It also quickly became evident horribly evident that no one in the city knew how to make coffee, as if there were some sort of stultified consensus, or even city ordinance, about never waking up.
thomas pynchon— p. 66 (Against the Day (2006))
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.
will rogers— 1953 TheWaking,'TheWaking'.
All night has the casement jessamine stirred To the dancers dancing in tune; Till a silence fell with the waking bird, And a hush with the setting moon.
Tennyson— 1855 Maud, pt.1, sect.22, stanza 3, l.864-7.
That's her psychic cock waking her up.
bill allred— Radio From Hell (July 14, 2006)
I'm not worrying about my Irish past. What has my Celtic blood ever done for me but give me a restless and unstable mind that gives me no rest in anything I do? Damn the Shan Van Vocht, and the ancestors that went to Sassenach gallows for her, and damn the Irish and damn the black Milesian blood in my veins that makes me like drift-wood fighting the waves and gives me no peace or rest waking or sleeping or riding or dreaming or traveling or wooing, drunken or sober, with hunger or slumber on me.
robert e. howard— From a letter to Harold Preece (1929)
The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man."
diogenes laërtius— Aristotle, 9.
If I woke up tomorrow morning and it was just a dream, it would be the best dream I've ever had, and I would be ? I would not be happy to be waking up! [laughter]
leona lewis— The Xtra Factor: Winner's Story 2006
— Upon winning The X-Factor
How at heaven's gates she claps her wings,The morne not waking til she sings.
john lyly— Cupid and Campaspe, Act v, Sc. 1. Compare: "Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gat sings,/And Phœbus 'gins arise", William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, act ii, sc. 3.
Night by night I will lie down and sleep in the thought of God, and in the thought, too, that my waking may be in the bosom of the Father; and some time it will be, so I trust.
william mountford— P. 406. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The search for meaning is not limited to science: it is constant and continuous--all of us engage in it during all our waking hours the search continues even in our dreams. There are many ways of finding meaning, and there are no absolute boundaries separating them.
— Ervin László (1996) Evolution: the general theory. p. 3
Most people are even less original in their dreaming than in their waking life; their dreams are more monotonous than their thoughts and oddly enough, more literary.
wystan hugh auden— "Walter de la Mare", p. 393
I mind as if it were yesterday my first sight of the man. Little I knew at the time how big the moment was with destiny, or how often that face seen in the fitful moonlight would haunt my sleep and disturb my waking hours.
john buchan— First lines (Prester John (1910))
This is what Wisdom means: To be changed without the slightest effort on your part, to be transformed, believe it or not, merely by waking to the reality that is not words , that lies beyond the reach of words. If you are fortunate enough to be Awakened thus, you will know why the finest language is the one that is not spoken, the finest action is the one that is not done and the finest change is the one that is not willed.
anthony de mello— Introduction
Father in heaven, when the thought of thee awakens in our soul, let it not waken as an agitated bird which flutters confusedly about, but as a child waking from sleep with a celestial smile.
— Journals and Papers IIA320
The ordinary person senses the greatness of the odds against him even without thought or analysis, and he adapts his attitudes unconsciously. A huge passivity has settled on industrial society. For people carried about in mechanical vehicles, earning their living by waiting on machines, listening much of the waking day to canned music, watching packaged movie entertainment and capsulated news, for such people it would require an exceptional degree of awareness and an especial heroism of effort to be anything but supine consumers of processed goods.
Marshall McLuhan— p. 21 ("The Agenbite of Outwit")
What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?
Lewis Mumford— p. 352 (The Pentagon of Power (1970))
But in our waking hours we must, if we are rational, make our decisions on the basis of the most objective and cold-blooded estimates that we can make: estimates of the forces and tendencies in the world about us; estimates of the realities with which we must deal; remembering always that nothing is likely to happen just because we think it's good, or unlikely to happen just because we think it's evil.
— Revilo P. Oliver, "What We Owe Our Parasites", speech (June 1968); Free Speech magazine (October and November 1995).
The needs of man, if life is to survive, are usually said to be four -- air, water, food, and in the severe climates, protection. But it is becoming clear today that the human organism has another absolute necessity... This fifth need is the need for novelty -- the need, throughout our waking life, for continuous variety in the external stimulation of our eyes, ears, sense organs, and all our nervous network.
— John R. Platt (1959) "The Fifth Need of Man," in: Horizon 1 (July 1959), p.109.
The search for meaning is not limited to science : it is constant and continuous--all of us engage in it during all our waking hours the search continues even in our dreams. There are many ways of finding meaning, and there are no absolute boundaries separating them.
— Ervin László (1996) Evolution: the general theory. p. 3
None but the lark so shrill and clear; Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings, The morn not waking till she sings.
john lyly— John Lyly, Alexander and Campaspe, Act V, scene 1.
Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music: do I wake or sleep?
john keats— John Keats, To a Nightingale.
The Lake country is a glorious region, of which I had only seen the similitude in dreams, waking or sleeping…I longed to slip out unseen, and to run away by myself in amongst the hills and dales.
elizabeth gaskell— Charlotte Brontë, letter to Elizabeth Gaskell, September 27, 1850; Elizabeth Gaskell, Life of Charlotte Brontë (New York: D. Appleton, 1858) vol. 2, p. 144
Night by night I will lie down and sleep in the thought of God, and in the thought, too, that my waking may be in the bosom of the Father; and some time it will be, so I trust.
— William Mountford, p. 406. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The Sun was still in bed, but there was a lightness in the sky over the Hundred Acre Wood which seemed to show that it was waking up and would soon be kicking off its clothes.
— A. A. Milne, in Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)
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, p. 308 (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
