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))
If there was onething he hated more than another it was the way she had of waking him in the morning? It was her way of establishing her grievance for the day.
Beauchamp— 1920 Bliss and Other Stories,'Mr Reginald Peacock's Day'.
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)
May we feel after Thee; still calling out in the darkness, as children waking in the night call "Father," so may we call out for God; and, at times, even if we do not hear Thy voice, may there be the form of a hand resting upon us, and that shall be enough; for we shall take hold of it, though it be in the dark, and it shall guide us to the growing light; for the day shall come, and the release and triumph.
henry ward beecher— p. 595. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
To-morrow it seemLike the empty words of a dreamRemembered on waking.
robert bridges— I Love all Beauteous Things, st. 2.
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))
You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: "Holy Christ, whaddya know — I'm still around!" It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.
paul newman— Quoted in Andrew Buncombe, "After 50 years in film, Cool Hand Newman plans one last hurrah," The Independent (2006-06-17)
Like the dawn upon a dreamSlowly through the scented gloomCrept once more the ruddy gleamO'er the friendly nursery room.There, before our waking eyes,Large and ghostly, white and dim,Dreamed the Flower that never dies,Opening wide its rosy rim.
Alfred Noyes— Part IV : The End of the Quest
Your impulses are your closest communication with your inner self, because in the waking state they are the spontaneous urgings towards action, rising from that deep inner knowledge of yourself that you have in dreams.
jane roberts— Session 871
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
And now good morrow to our waking souls, Which watch not one another out of fear; For love, all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room, an everywhere. Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone, Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown, Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.
john donne— The Good Morrow, stanza 2.
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))
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— The First Year of Life of the Child (1927), "The Egocentrism of the Child and the Solipsism of the Baby", as translated by Howard E. Gruber and J. Jacques Vonèche
I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not. I am, however, quite certain that I am having certain experiences, whether they be those of a dream or those of waking life.
bertrand russell— Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (1948), p. 172.
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 nightingale as soon as April bringeth Unto her rested sense a perfect waking, While late bare earth, proud of new clothing, springeth, Sings out her woes, a thorn her song-book making. And mournfully bewailing, Her throat in tunes expresseth What grief her breast oppresseth.
— Sir Philip Sidney, O Philomela Fair.
Old Bhopal, like Old Delhi, is a Muslim city and takes its time waking up. Sensibly, its streets are widest awake by 7PM.
— Lesley A. Esteves, in “Outlook Traveller (April 2008)] p.85
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))
The whole world is a dream; even this (the waking state) is a dream ... What you dreamt last night does not exist now.
— Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda. Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations. p. 302.
