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
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.
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
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))
How at heaven's gates she claps her wings, The morn not waking till she sings.
john lyly— 1584 Of the lark. Campaspe, act 5, sc.1.
Nous veillons dormants, et veillants dormons. We wake sleeping, and sleep waking.
— 1580 Essais, bk.2, ch.12 (translated by Charles Cotton).
The whole world is a dream; even this (the waking state) is a dream ... What you dreamt last night does not exist now.
sarada devi— Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda. Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations. p. 302.
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream: it may be so the moment after death.
Nathaniel Hawthorne— 1836
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)
I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.
john d. rockefeller— Random Reminiscences of Men and Events (1906)
In February, if the days be clear,The waking bee, still drowsy on the wing,Will sense the opening of another yearAnd blunder out to seek another spring.
vita sackville-west— "Bee-Master", p. 40
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
Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, and can re-capture nothing but a dim sense of the beauty of it, the beauty! Till that, too, fades away in its turn, and the dreamer bitterly accepts the hard, cold waking and all its penalties; so Mole, after struggling with his memory for a brief space, shook his head sadly and followed the Rat.
Kenneth Grahame— Ch. 7 (The Reluctant Dragon)
I've been sleeping through my life Now I'm waking up And I want to stand in the sunshine I have never been ecstatic Had a flower but it never bloomed In the darkness of my wasted youth It was hiding in the shadows Learning to become invisible Uncover me
juliana hatfield— Sunshine (In Exile Deo (2004))
Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music: Do I wake or sleep?
john keats— Stanza 8. (Ode to a Nightingale)
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
Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking; Dream of battled fields no more, Days of danger, nights of waking.
walter scott— Canto I, stanza 31.
He has only just learned to tell dreams from waking; only just realized that he is he; only just whittled with his hand né fin a flint, a rocket ship; easily drowned in the ocean's teaspoon, not even funny enough to tickle the void: sees only with his eyes; hears only with his ears; his speech's personal best is the conditional; he uses his reason to pick holes in reason. In short, he's next to to one, but his head's full of freedom, omniscience and the Being beyond his foolish meat did you ever!
wisława szymborska— "No End of Fun"
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).
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— Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization, R. Howard, trans. (1988)
The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man."
— Aristotle, 9.
Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
george santayana— George Santayana, Interpretations of Poetry and Religion (1900)
All the objects in the external world are definitely projections of shakti, the power of consciousness , but the waking state is not a product of your mind .
— Swami Rama, in "OM the Eternal Witness: Secrets of the Mandukya Upanishad (25 September 2007)", p.22
For the hopes of men have been justly called waking dreams.
— Basil, Bishop of Cæsarea (about 370). Letter to Gregory of Nazianzus. Found in A. Von Humboldt's Cosmos
You ask what hope is. He (Aristotle) says it is a waking dream.
— Diogenes Laertius, Book V. 18. Ascribed to Pindar by Stobæus—Sermon CIX; to Plato by Ælian—Var. Hist, XIII. 29
Nosegays! leave them for the waking, Throw them earthward where they grew Dim are such, beside the breaking Amaranths he looks unto. Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Child Asleep.
When the ephemeral vision 's lure is past All, all, must face their Passion at the last. So touch my dying lip : so bridge that deep: So pledge my waking from the gift of sleep .
— Hilaire Belloc, in Dionysus: a case of vintage tales about wine, p.309
